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 ...

This course was produced as an output of the Technical Cooperation Project RAS 5057: “Implementing Best Practices of Food Irradiation for Sanitary and Phytosanitary Purposes”. It was designed for ...

The IAEA and the French technology resource centre Aerial have agreed to increase joint work on food irradiation, a technique used in over 60 countries to destroy disease-causing bacteria and to ...

Few scientific developments cause as much confusion as those which deal with food. Everybody has to eat, and nobody wants to worry about the safety of what they eat. Perhaps that’s why food ...

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 ...

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 ...

An intelligence report published by Advance Market Analytics details insights about the potential future of food irradiation around the world, pointing to food safety among the benefits. United States ...

Branded “Atomik” and certified free of excess radioactivity, the artisanal spirit is part of a plan to help revive agriculture and aid residents around the nuclear disaster site. By Palko Karasz After ...

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 ...