Grassley said officials may have been too quick to irradiate mail without knowing potential side effects.

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"When you irradiate a young child's brain, say less than 5 years old, you hit the pituitary gland, which controls growth hormone production, " he said.

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Once the cancerous area is precisely targeted, only the intensity of the laser radiation needs to be turned up in order to irradiate, or burn off, the tumor.

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Maybe Monsanto should be required to take a more active role in protecting their patent and be required to irradiate all of the seed that they sell as a commodity to prevent the genes from being illicitly replicated.

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