After some years of relative calm, the controversial issue of irradiation is moving back on to the agenda of the world food industry. Alan Osborn explains why, and predicts the outcome of debate ...

The Produce Marketing Association believes consumers should know whether a food has been irradiated and they should have a choice of irradiated and non-irradiated produce. Our concern is that by ...

This article is the twelfth in a continuing series excerpted from the book Smoke or Steam? A Guide to Environmental, Regulatory, and Food Safety Concerns, by Samuel Aldrich, adapted and serialized by ...

With increasing acceptance and application of food irradiation, there is an increasing need to disseminate information about irradiated food to the consumers in an objective and clear manner. All ...

Some food producers use irradiation in the form of gamma rays, electron beams and X-rays, to kill bacteria and insects. In August, 2008, the Food and Drug Administration began allowing irradiation of ...

Approved by the Food and Drug Administration, irradiation destroys insect pests and such pathogens as E. coli 0157, salmonella, campylobacter and listeria. The American Medical Association, the ...

Czech authorities have found instant noodle soups from Vietnam that were irradiated without declaring this on the packaging. The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority (SZPI) carried out an ...

Frogs legs made up two thirds of the products irradiated in Europe in 2018 and 2019, but use of the food safety technique continued to fall, according to a report. The three main commodities are ...