Introduction to the Guide 
Hi and welcome to the Irradiation-free Food Guide!
This guide was established to help you make informed choices about irradiated foods while you shop.
The Guide is a pocket sized book listing companies opposed to irradiation.
It rates the most popular brands based on their company policy and provides some interesting background about food irradiation and the many alternatives.
Welcome on board!
NEW! Australian company Madura Tea are the latest brand name to commit to irradiation-free status of their popular teas. They have committed to use only non-irradiated ingredients in all of their products. Madura have gone further to state that they will also not be using irradiated packaging on their products.
We welcome them and they will be appearing in the next version of the Irradiation Free Food Guide.
Cerebos have also recently joined the green category. Cerebos brands include: Riva, Mocopan, Gravox, Fountain, Saxa, Foster Clark's desserts, Tandaco and also Cerebos Gregg's Ltd, whihc operates in New Zealand.
Bakers Delight, Grove Fruit Juice, Kookaburra Raw Peanuts and Camp Oven Mixes Cake Mixes, Nerada Tea and Masterfoods have all joined our GREEN category with their irradiation-free policies.
While Kookaburra and Grove are new to the Guide, Baker’s Delight and Neraqda Tea were listed in 2006’s version in the “Red - non-respondent category” while Masterfoods rated orange. It's great to see them make the effort to get in to the Green. We hope all of these companies’ commitment to customer health and choice will inspire others to go irradiation-free and join our Irradiation-free honor roll.
Several companies stand out in the efforts to oppose food irradiation in Australia this year:
The Pancake Parlour restaurant chain in Victoria has distributed an average of 200 Irradiation-free Food Guides at each of its ten stores, making it a great disseminator of information as well as a dedicated pro-organic, irradiation-free business and a delicious place to eat.
Abundance Herbs based in Brisbane has been a great campaign supporter and one of the only businesses we have seen that labels their products “free from irradiation.” Sonia Fletcher from Abundance Herbs says all her products are labelled free from irradiation, pesticides, herbicides, GM ingredients and artificial fertilizers because people need to be aware of these potentially harmful processes. Sonia makes her on non-irradiated herbal infusions and has been a keen distributor of the Guide.
Food Connect, an organic (or near organic) food delivery service based on Community Supported Agriculture principles has also been active in distributing guides, supporting the cause and feeding the campaign.
Absolutely Organics in Western Australia and Happy High Herbs nationally have also been great irradiation-free food advocates this year.
On this site you can find:
- regularly updated information about new companies that have made a commitment to be irradiation-free
- information to help you take action on food irradiation
- testimonials from people committed to clean, green food
- information on how to order a hard-copy of the 2006 Irradiation-free Food Guide
- our 2006 guide in low resolution pdf files suitable for printing out
The Irradiation-free Food Guide was produced with the kind support of these organisations:
Organic Federation of Australia Friends of the Earth Australia
Many of the files on this site require Acrobat Reader. You can download a copy for free here