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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the framework of an ongoing technical cooperation (TC) project, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Mexican National Institute of Nuclear Research (ININ) organized a regional meeting ...

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 ...

Food irradiation employs controlled doses of ionising radiation to eliminate pathogens, extend shelf life and enhance food safety without materially altering nutritional value or sensory quality.

Irradiation has emerged as a versatile tool in the processing of foods and natural products, serving both to ensure microbial safety and to modulate the composition and activity of bioactive compounds ...

More than 90 comments have been received on the European Commission’s sustainable food plan. The strategy details the regulatory and non-regulatory measures needed to create more efficient, ...

IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A., EURONEXT), the world leader in particle accelerator technology and electron beam and X-ray solutions for industrial advanced irradiation, announced today the launch of ...