Food irradiation involves treating items with low-dose X-rays, electron beams or gamma rays. The high-energy particles in the rays and beams kill disease-causing pathogens such as E. coli and ...

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.

“Food irradiation shows absolutely no detrimental impact on the food,” he says. Hundreds of studies have proved that irradiation neither adds compounds to food nor takes nutrients away.

Food irradiation is the process by which energy is used to kill bacteria, including E. coli, in a variety of foods ranging from meats and poultry, to fruits and vegetables, to spices.

Food irradiation, in simplest terms, is a process that can eliminate disease-causing pathogens. It exposes food items, either packaged or in bulk, to varying doses of high-energy, invisible radiation.

But while the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been approving new types of irradiated food for sale since the 1960s, few food processors have taken the leap to irradiating their products, ...

Irradiation is the process of moving food through a stream of ionized energy. It's a little like an X-ray machine, except the point is to kill bacteria. Studies show that irradiation works.

What exactly is irradiated meat, and is it okay for people to eat? Here are the facts about this scientific process and how it affects foods like meat.

Americans, who once found it hard to believe that a giant water project could be held up by demands to protect an obscure fish known as the snail darter, have come to understand and even applaud en… ...

Like an old song that keeps coming back, the debate over food irradiation has resurfaced again. The catalyst is the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to approve irradiation as a way to ...

Essentially, food irradiation creates "mummified" food, killing off bacteria that cause spoilage (a natural process) to prolong shelf-life. It's done primarily for financial, ...

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