The Annie Appleseed Project - Comment

We represent people with cancer. Most people with cancer go through therapy that includes radiotherapy. They have been exposed to as much radiation as is humanly possible to sustain. Therefore the trend toward irradiating food products to protect us, will not be helpful to those who have been treated conventionally for cancer. Additionally we, as consumers, believe that the best way to fight bacteria is to have better safety methods at the farm level. It is certainly possible to farm in a healthful way - large factory farms do not practice 'safe farming' but they should be required to do so. We ask that you focus your efforts toward safe farming and not irradiation. But if you do irradiate food, we ask that ALL products be clearly labeled in a way that consumers will IMMEDIATELY recognize. Thank you for your consideration of our comments. Ann Fonfa, President www.annieappleseedproject.org