TIL: Eating hamburger patties medium-rare is a lot more dangerous than medium-rare steak because of bacteria concentrations

After reading two of those that failed to even describe the type of radiation (it could be fucking thermal for all we know), I looked it up.

Gamma rays from Cesium-137, X-Rays, electron beams, and more!

I don't want to sound alarmist but... cancer?

Source - FDA

The wholesomeness of irradiated foods has, therefore, been the subject of considerable national and international research, which has been reviewed and evaluated by joint expert committees of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. These expert groups have uniformly concluded that the food irradiation process does not present any enhanced toxicological, microbiological, or nutritional hazard beyond those brought about by conventional food processing techniques (2).

Noting the absence of "radiological" in that statement...

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