Food irradiation has numerous benefits: Eliminates microbial contamination: Destroys bacteria, moulds and yeast that cause food poisoning and spoilage. Lowers food-borne disease risk: Reduces the risk ...

Food irradiation standards support international trade. Irradiation has become widely accepted as a proven and effective post-harvest treatment to reduce bacterial contamination, slow spoilage and ...

Food irradiation market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 3.9% over the forecast period to reach US $269.139 million by 2023 from US $213.998 million in 2017. Increasing ...

Food irradiation—treating food with powerful electromagnetic radiation in order to kill harmful bacteria—sounds extremely freaking scary and awful. So it's no surprise that practice is hotly ...

More than 300,000 people become sick from food-borne illnesses each year in the U.S., and almost 5,000 of those die. Could food irradiation make the food supply safer? In this column, I’ll take ...

Irradiation involves zapping food with high-energy electromagnetic waves. Scientists have studied it for decades and have shown it is entirely safe.

Even if food irradiation reaped modest benefits, say a 10 percent decrease in food poisonings, we would save hundreds of lives and billions of dollars in health care costs each year.

The Food and Drug Administration's action on the irradiation of produce was long overdue ("Lettuce Rejoice," Review & Outlook, Aug. 28). Millions of dollars worth of produce has been needlessly ...

Of the 482 outbreaks known to have not had irradiation as part of processing, 155 were linked to a food eligible for irradiation. Those outbreaks resulted in 3,512 illnesses, 463 hospitalizations ...

In regard to your Dec. 18 editorial "E. Coli's Enablers": Thank you for raising awareness about the positive public health aspects of irradiation to sanitize/pasteurize foods of disease-causing ...

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After a semester of doing research on the topic of food irradiation, I am still very much indecisive on whether or not it is safe. Though it is true that it does kill off harmful bacteria such as ...