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  • From: Leigh <lh AT pressroom.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Irradiated mail and seeds
  • Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:28:20 -0500


Our Quality Assurance Manager, Norma Rossel, is investigating the ins and outs of this potential issue. No irradiating is happening yet. Our USPS rep are telling us not to worry, that they won't be zapping our seed shipments. Same word from the private carriers, UPS, Fed-X, etc.

The company (no competitive bids here) that is getting the contract for the irradiators claims it will only be irradiating flats, meaning letters, (there is a thickness issue - the technology can only irradiate a certain thickness of paper) This is great for those first of the season boxes of seeds, (I understand there is a proposal to start gassing these with -- I can't recall the agent) but how about those 'flats' that I receive throughout the season from Johnny's when I realize that I don't have enough arugula or tatsoi seed. (and since I'm on the subject we need to get back to that mid-eastern squash variety Johnny's carried several years ago, and not the one they carry now).

And some irradiation is starting in my area of the country, DC. I understand some of the mail is being shipped out to an irradiation plant in Ohio. This is a policy that is just being implemented. We need to make sure our interests are protected now, before hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on a technology that causes more harm than good. The seed companies need to take the lead in this one (they have more money and staff than us family farmers).
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