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Article: Ready and willing to irradiate spices.
- Article from:
- Food Trade Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1991
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1991 Food Trade Press Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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For more than fifteen years now Isotron Plc have been offering the facility for irradiating products to help clean up or keep clean certain materials. They have five centres, four for gamma processing and one for electron beam processing that are used for medical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, plastics and health care applications.
Over about the last four or five decades scientists have examined the possibility of irradiating foodstuffs and, apart from encouraging rancidity in fatty products, that have not found any deleterious effects, although it is thought some flavour changes occur. Unfortunately in the UK the whole business of irradiation has had a ...