ET’s Doesn’t Believe in Irradiation
Here at ET we believe food should be packaged, transported and stored to maintain freshness and nutritional value without the use of irradiation. Our produce department is 100% organic and we strive to make the rest of our store organic too; irradiation is not part of the accepted organic process so you have our promise. There will be no irradiated foods offered at Ellwood Thompson’s.
Irradiation can only be used on a select group of foods, its total effectiveness has not been measured nor have the long-term health effects of consuming foods treated with radiation from sources such as Cobalt, Xrays and high energy electron beams. ET believes irradiation of foods is a quick and risky approach to food safety and detracts from the focus of the bigger issue of handling food contamination and safety by meaningful, safe methods.