- Title: Dispatches
- Date: 17th January 1990
- Summary: This week the House of Lords starts detailed scrutiny of a government Bill that will legalise the irradiation of food. Dispatches reveals new evidence that questions the whole of the research used to justify irradiation. Dispatches looks again at the research carried out in the 1970s and 1980s under the auspices of the Food Irradiation Project, and finds that adverse health effects of irradiation have been ignored. Independent experts are now challenging the research findings that had been accepted by the World Health Organisation and the US Food and Drugs Administration. Ministers say that irradiation can improve the quality of food and increase shelf life. Dispatches, shows that these claims are highly questionable. Dispatches report on the growing campaign against irradiation and asks Food Minister, David Maclean Mp why he is continuing with such an unpopular and contentious measure.
- Description:DISPATCHES
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Stephens Kerr Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:17/01/1990
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s