Irradiation attention

Irradiation is generating a lot of buzz right now, and The Packer's John Chadwell has recently published several interesting angles to the debate.
From his story:
Robert Tauxe, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC, said at the Emerging Infectious Diseases Conference in Atlanta in 2000 that many of the concerns about irradiation are similar to earlier objections to pasteurization.


Here is a PBS feature on irradiation.

TK: I think we are years away from use of irradiation on leafy greens, regardless of FDA's posture. It could happen - the pasteurization argument is effective - but the only way this technology advances is if someone feels they can have a marketing advantage with it.