{"id":36,"date":"2015-09-10T02:36:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T02:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/?p=36"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:33:17","slug":"nz-kiwi-growers-concerned-that-irradiation-will-affect-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/nz-kiwi-growers-concerned-that-irradiation-will-affect-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ Kiwi Growers Concerned That Irradiation Will Affect Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tomatoes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-391\" alt=\"tomatoes\" src=\"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tomatoes-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Kiwi growers say people are worried about side-effects of irradiated food from Australia as NZ Ministry for Primary Industries will soon make a decision whether to allow the import of irradiated foods from Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Horticulture NZ chief executive Peter Silcock says irradiated food is a concern for consumers.<br \/>\n&#8220;The primary concern is what impact has radiation had on the product and what impact will it have on my body when I eat it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, the Australian Government banned irradiated cat food when animals developed neurological defects after being fed high-dose gamma-irradiated food.<br \/>\nThe European Food Safety Authority is investigating the safety of irradiated food.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article here: http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10892349<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwi growers say people are worried about side-effects of irradiated food from Australia as NZ Ministry for Primary Industries will soon make a decision whether to allow the import of irradiated foods from Australia. &#8220;Horticulture NZ chief executive Peter Silcock says irradiated food is a concern for consumers. &#8220;The primary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}