From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 15:36:17 EDT
At 14:03 -0400 2003-06-23, John M. Fiscella wrote:
>And don't forget the 'radura'. The radura is to the food industry as
>the 'biohazard' is to medical industry.
Jeepers.
>Yet the comments on proposing the radura by various UTC members were
>negative. And it isn't a logo.
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/rad/radura.html
http://www.organicconsumers.org/Irrad/EPA-radura.cfm
http://www.sare.org/htdocs/hypermail/html-home/40-html/0462.html
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/larc/Irradiation_Q_&A.htm
Documents say "mandated by the FDA" -- is it actually international?
I don't believe I have ever seen it. Can you, heh heh, buy something
with it on it and scan us a sample of it in use?
Does the FDA or anyone distribute a font with this symbol in it?
Radura is Italian for a 'glade' or 'clearing' for what that is worth.
Depending on answers to the above, I would certainly consider popping
the RADURA into a bucket with the DO NOT LITTER SIGN. (It still
irritates me that Ken vetoed that one. I see it *everywhere* on
packaging from more and more countries.)
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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