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i. Hawaiian Hos4 Inc. <br /> 500 Alakawa Street, #111 <br /> ® Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 <br /> Hawaii's Gift to the World Phone: (808) 848-0500 <br /> FAX: (808) 848-0OSS <br /> TESTIMONY, HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL <br /> BILL # 62 <br /> Presented before the <br /> HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL <br /> COUNTY OF HAWAII <br /> State of Hawaii <br /> by <br /> HAWAIIAN HOST, 1NC. <br /> Honolulu, Hawaii <br /> May 14, 1997 <br /> My name is Dick Yoda. I am President of Hawaiian Host, Inc. I appreciate this <br /> opportunity to testify and the committee's efforts to explore ways in which to help <br /> Hawaii's agriculture. <br /> The purpose of my testimony is to speak neither for nor against food irradiation. It is <br /> to call attention to the fact that so far as quarantine treatment of papaya is concerned, <br /> alternatives are already available and more are under development. I wish to share our <br /> experience with one of these, the so-called vapor- heat treatment. In addition we wish to <br /> respectfully raise a few questions about the project's intent and to point out other ways in <br /> which the papaya industry could be helped. <br /> The vapor-heat process is one of the oldest quarantine treatments for papaya and was <br /> used in Hawaii to the early 1960's until displaced by the lower-cost EDB treatment. <br /> When after many years of use EDB was found to be unsafe, vapor-heat treatment was <br /> resurrected, first by Diamond Head Papaya, next by Hawaiian Host, Inc., and now by <br /> <br /> IG <br /> w <br /> <br />