Let the scientists and regulators do their work. Let the process work as it has been designed.
The old parable has reared its head again this year. The “boys crying wolf” are the many groups who say they represent the consumer. They thunder from their pulpits that irradiation is bad, GM foods will destroy the world’s gene pool, our foods are contaminated with pathogens and that food chemicals are everywhere and the industry is doing nothing to control them. In the literature these groups produce, there are common words and phrases, especially the word “may.” This “may” cause cancer or “may” make you sick.