11.  NASA uses irradiated food for astronauts in space.

12.  NASA uses irradiated food for astronauts.

13.  One major fear surrounds the changes that take place in irradiated foods, especially the formation of compounds called radiolytic products.

14.  One vocal consumer group, fanning fears about radiation hazards, has threatened to boycott any store that sells irradiated foods.

15.  Rightly or wrongly, much of the public remains skeptical about irradiated food.

16.  She anticipated that irradiated food would be marketed first to hospitals and nursing homes, and to people with weakened immune systems, such as AIDS patients.

17.  Some bacteria may not be destroyed by irradiation, and bacteria from other foods could still contaminate irradiated foods.

18.  The answer, then, is to ban all except irradiated food.

19.  The FDA must first approve any use of irradiation on specific foods, including the dose amount, and requires that all irradiated food be prominently labeled.

20.  On a space mission last year, John Glenn and his fellow astronauts ate irradiated food.