date:Dec 03, 2012
n in poultry from 3.0 kilogray (kGy) to 4.5 kGy. While this higher dose is already allowed in meat and molluscan shellfish, the limit had remained at 3.0 kGy for poultry until now.
The two rules were issued in response to two petitions filed in 1999 by the U.S. Department of Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service.
FDA says that since that time, it has received many comments from consumer advocacy groups including Public Citizen and the Center for Food Safety requesting the denial of