{"id":49,"date":"2015-09-10T02:40:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T02:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/?p=49"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:33:17","slug":"nz-medicos-oppose-irradiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/nz-medicos-oppose-irradiation\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ: Medicos Oppose Irradiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Physicans &amp; Scientists for Global Responsibility: &#8220;recommends Food Standards Austria New Zealand (FSANZ) reject Application A1069.  The food regulation review process of FSANZ has a legislated mandate to protect public health and safety.  In approving this Application, FSANZ would not be meeting this duty of care.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The safety and nutritional integrity of the proposed irradiated foods is not determined.  Irradiation of tomatoes and capsicums could potentially adversely affect the nutritional value and safety of a significant proportion of fresh foods and processed food supplies in New Zealand and Australia as these products are widely used in dried, canned and frozen processed foods.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full submission here:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psgr.org.nz\/submissions\/42-food-standards-australia-new-zealand-fsanz\/100-irradiated-tomatoes-and-capsicums-submission-to-fsanz?highlight=WyJpcnJhZGlhdGlvbiJd\">http:\/\/www.psgr.org.nz\/submissions\/42-food-standards-australia-new-zealand-fsanz\/100-irradiated-tomatoes-and-capsicums-submission-to-fsanz?highlight=WyJpcnJhZGlhdGlvbiJd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicans &amp; Scientists for Global Responsibility: &#8220;recommends Food Standards Austria New Zealand (FSANZ) reject Application A1069. The food regulation review process of FSANZ has a legislated mandate to protect public health and safety. In approving this Application, FSANZ would not be meeting this duty of care. &#8220;The safety and nutritional<\/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-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}