Dr Tony Webb (born 1945) is an English social scientist and former academic residing in

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. He is the co-author of several books including ''Radiation : your health at risk'' (1980), ''Food irradiation: The facts'' (1987) which he wrote with Tim Lang and ''Radiation and your health'' (1988). In 1988, Webb toured Australia with

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, speaking in opposition to the irradiation of food. He currently resides in South Australia, where he was a member of the Citizens' Jury formed to consider the findings of the

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in 2016. He stood as the Labor party's candidate in the electoral district of Heysen in the 2018 South Australian General Election but was unsuccessful.

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