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  • From: claude sweet <sweetent@home.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Irradiation of Mail & Plant Fallout
  • Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:17:18 -0700

My understanding the dosage would result in killing any potential
disease organism, plant, seed, bulb. etc.

Claude Sweet
San Diego, CA

Doreen Howard wrote:

> Since the US Postal Service has decided to buy cobalt-gamma ray irradiation
> equipment to sanitize the mail, we plant people have a big problem. Seeds
> and live plants exposed to this irradiation will be altered genetically.
> Several seed companies have already contacted their elected representatives
> about this. What can we do as individuals? Should be we be worried? I am.
> Does this mean that seeds (which are light in weight) will now have to be
> sent via UPS or Fed-EX at much higher rates? How does this effect an
> already struggling garden industry? Let the discussion begin. And, email
> your elected representatives about your concerns.
> Doreen Howard
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