Home / ESA’s cobalt-60 irradiation facility gains ISO quality stamp. Posted in Press Release ESA’s cobalt-60 irradiation facility gains ISO quality stamp by SpaceRef July 5, 2011.

After years of struggling, 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 ...

Currently in the U.S. House of Representatives is the Food Irradiation Safety and Labeling Act. The act was originated to restrict two rulings passed in January and April of 1986 by the Food and Dr… ...

Cobalt-60 harvested from Bruce Power's reactors is already used to help sterilize 40 per cent of the world's single-use medical devices and treat brain tumours.

The FDA has approved irradiation of spinach and iceberg lettuce to kill food-borne pathogens, a Band-Aid approach to food safety that may ultimately hurt small, local farmers.

A: It is likely that much of the growth of the traditional gamma irradiation market will go to accelerators in the future. The number of accelerator suppliers exceeds the number of cobalt-60 suppliers ...

US food irradiation business, Food Technology Service, this week announced a four per cent rise in revenue for the quarter ending March 31, 2002. default-output-block.skip-main. News & Analysis on ...

Other important uses of cobalt-60 include the non-invasive treatment of cancers and brain tumours, polymer processing, food treatment and environmental applications. The demand for sterilisation and, ...

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.

Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam – Each morning hundreds of boxes filled with frozen seafood, dried fruits and vegetables, oriental medicines and health foods are queued up in a store room in Ho Chi Minh ...