Acceptance of food irradiation appears to be increasing, according to an analysis of previous research. A total of 27 peer-reviewed articles in English covering 24,474 people in 15 countries provided ...

An evaluation of food irradiation rules in Europe has found legislation is unlikely to have much impact on use because of a decline driven by industry and consumer fears, despite scientific evidence ...

Radiation is a bad thing that we don’t want to be exposed to, or so the conventional wisdom goes. We’re most familiar with it in the context of industrial risks and the stories of nuclear disasters ...

WASHINGTON — The Grocery Manufacturers Association has published "Food Irradiation: A Guide for Consumers, Policy Makers and the Media," to better inform all stakeholders about the process. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Con la marca Atomik y una certificación de libre de radiactividad, el licor artesanal forma parte de un plan para resucitar la agricultura de la región y ayudar a los residentes que viven cerca del ...

Irradiation to kill bacteria, once hailed as a potential answer to many of the food scares of the 1990s, has faded from public attention to the point where its opponents have stopped campaigning. Yet ...

Congratulations to Canada for approving the use of irradiation to help prevent contamination of ground beef from causing foodborne illness. The process has been approved in the US for a variety of ...

How do the potatoes in that sack keep from sprouting on their long trip from the field to the produce section? Why don’t the apples spoil? To an extent, the answer lies in varying amounts of ...

"Protecting the public from foodborne illness is a priority," U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary for Food Safety Elsa Murano declared when her agency announced ratifying purchase by local ...