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Article: Food irradiation: does it have a place in today's food industry?
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- Frozen Food Digest
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
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Food irradiation is a food preservation method that requires food to be exposed to extremely high energy namely ionizing radiation. The energy source is usually from radioactive material such as cobalt-60 or cesium-137, or less often from machines that generate X-rays or electron beams. In the United States food irradiation is permitted for a variety of foods such as spices, fruits and poultry. However public resistance has limited test-marketing or the sale of irradiated foods to only a few foods sold in the North American market. Freezing facilities have been proposed for some food irradiation plants, for example if meat was to be irradiated. Is there a place in today's ...