On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:06:05 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:


Only complete cooking stops all biological activity. (Almost
all)

a good dose of gamma rays does too

True, but not many urglers have access to a Cobalt bomb.

Only a cobalt 60 source is needed, I am sure many urglers have one
in
their garden shed :-)

The food industry has access to chambers that use gamma rays to stop
all biological processes in food.
http://www.foodstandards.gov.uk/safe...e/irradfoodqa/

Oh, dear. It's not organic.

Worse still it kills bacteria, but doesn't get rid of toxins caused by
the bacteria. It's the reason that prawns imported from the Far East
sometimes make people ill.
--
Martin