...but I bring other, different, problems
An alternative to irradiating food, of course, would be to irradiate the manure instead. That, after all, is the source of the bacteria, and as the contact with radiation would be further removed from the food, you wouldn't have the either the Nuclear Dread associated with food irradiation, nor (perhaps?) would you have to mark the food as irradiated.
In this part of the world, we get the daily radiation readings as part of the NHK news forecast, as a result of the Misfortune earlier this year. Truly, we are living in the future.
