[reaperducer]

An excellent question. If anyone can link to some authoritative information on this, I'd be interested in reading it, too.

All I got from a Google search is yoga mom blogs. I'd like to see what a .gov health agency has to say about it.

[nottorp]

but .gov means US health agency... doubt they can be trusted on this issue.

[bluGill]

More trustworthy than most other sources. I'll acknowledge the bias, but at least they have people who know something about the subject they are talking about and have done actually research. That is .gov normally tells the truth - not always the whole truth, but at least the truth. The "yoga mamas" scream chemical and pass on friend of a friend rumors as pure truth.

[nottorp]

Yoga mamas... why do you even bother mentioning them?

However, it looks to me that an US organization talking about US produced food under the Trump administration is about as trustable as the FTC when talking about net neutrality or the FAA when talking about Boeing airplane safety.

[bluGill]

"yoga mamas" comes from the grandparent post. Far too many people get their "facts" from their friends and repeat whatever they made up/heard without any critical thought.

This isn't just Trump, I see at least as many liberals do that. A large part of the Trump-hate I see is from made up facts that have no basis in reality. (which isn't to saw Trump is good or honest, just that his opponents are doing the same thing they accuse him of - they believe they have the real facts)

[nottorp]

The term 'liberals' always amuses me, being outside the US.

Looks to me you use it as 'those hippie commie bastards' while around where I am it means 'the (optionally center) right'.

[mc32]

So the question becomes, what is the impact to consumers?

Does one process result in a less healthy product or not?

In other words what is the advantage of being sterile all they eat through versus ensuring sterility at the end of the process? Is one more prone to letting pathogens slip through?