The new year has ushered in new interest in food irradiation among journalists, greatly attributed to the inclusion of irradiated beef on supermarket store shelves and into federal school lunch programming. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution refers to these advancements in irradiated food as “inching its way into the American diet” in its January 11 article, “Irradiated meat due in area stores.” To support the article the Journal-Constitution called upon its local IFT expert to provide insight and…