the small irradiation firm Food Technology Service believes irradiated food is finally ready to take off. The company is nearly doubling the amount of radioactive cobalt 60 that it keeps at its ...

Irradiation will involve sending food on a conveyor belt through a concrete encasement where it will be exposed to radioactive waste Cesium-137, or manmade Cobalt-60. The doses will be several ...

Irradiation by gamma rays is one of the most ... One of the leading facilities offering such testing, ESA’s cobalt-60 unit in the Netherlands, has received ISO accreditation, formally confirming ...

For food workers in an industry notorious for abuses, irradiation does pose hazards. The two most common methods for irradiation, electron beams and gamma radiation from cobalt-60, require ...

"Our partnership with Bruce Power helps us support these kinds of scientific advances using Cobalt-60." Nordion is a leading provider of medical isotopes and gamma technologies used for the ...

They will undergo a process similar to security screening at airports, but with higher intensity beams of photons or electrons – in a food irradiation programme ... radiation is a radionuclide, ...

Our sales demonstrate the growing demand for foods and food packaging that have been made safer by irradiation. I am especially proud of the fact that during this quarter we retired the short-term ...

The word ‘radiation’ strikes fear in some people, but irradiation has played an invisible, beneficial, and often critical role in industry and food safety for over 100 ... emitted from the ...

The production of cobalt ... using cobalt-60 in a process known as ‘irradiation’ or ‘radiation processing’. Other important uses of cobalt-60 include the non-invasive treatment of cancers and brain ...

Reasons given by the firm for wanting the change include to increase efficiency of food irradiation and to reduce dependence on the radioactive isotope cobalt-60. X-rays are only produced when ...