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Most of the fresh greens at the grocery store nearest to me are not organic. None are irradiated. Whatever prevents romaine from being irradiated, it's not excl
by philipkglass 8y ago
Most of the fresh greens at the grocery store nearest to me are not organic. None are irradiated. Whatever prevents romaine from being irradiated, it's not exclusive to organic certification.
The only grocery items I can specifically recall seeing marked irradiated are spices. I'm speaking of grocery stores in Oregon and Washington.
- seccess 8y agoThis paper from 2010 has some info on why this may be the case [0]: "These results indicate that the protection of bacteria on the leaf surface by biofilm formation and stomatal colonization can reduce the antimicrobial efficacy of irradiation on leafy green vegetables." [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20629883 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20629883