date:Dec 03, 2012
both petitions, as well as the denial of another rule permitting irradiation of molluscan shellfish.
However, these comments were of a general nature and did not contain any substantive information that could be used in a safety evaluation of irradiated poultry, said the FDA in its new poultry irradiation rule. The agency reached the same conclusion for the comments urging denial of the new meat temperature rule.
Irradiation is considered a food additive because it is a process that can affec