QUESTIONS RAISED ON IRRADIATED FOOD.(CAPITAL REGION)

Not enough is known about the effects of irradiated food to declare it safe, the former chairwoman of a federal investigative team said Wednesday.

In written testimony to a joint hearing of the state Assembly and Senate consumer affairs committees, Marcia van Gemert said 441 studies that the U.S. government used as a basis for the approval of food irradiation were flawed.

But a Cornell University …