The process is entirely automated, involving no human exposure to radiation. Packages of food travel along a conveyor belt through an irradiation chamber where they are exposed to a controlled dose of ...

Canada recently (finally) approved the use of irradiation to safeguard fresh and frozen ground beef. The United States has allowed its use for that purpose (and many others) since 1999. And over 60 ...

The Food and Drug Administration, which confirmed the presence of the banned corn in the Taco Bell shells, is investigating how something approved only for animals got into the food supply and has ...

Spinach and Peanuts, With a Dash of Radiation While the federal government says that the irradiation of food is safe, the bacteria-killing technology has not been widely embraced in this country.

IBA, Aerial and Bühler have organized an online symposium fully dedicated to food irradiation. The International Food Irradiation Symposium (IFIS) is scheduled to run online March 9-11.

“Food irradiation has been studied globally for decades and is a safe, effective means of reducing foodborne illness-causing pathogens, sterilizing insects, delaying ripening or sprouting, and ...

New radiation technology is being used in food irradiation, helping to make food safer, better and easier to trade worldwide, participants at the International Symposium on Food Safety and Control ...