More than 300,000 people become sick from food-borne illnesses each year in the U.S., and almost 5,000 of those die. Could food irradiation make the food supply safer? In this column, I’ll take a ...

Despite high post-harvest losses and strong export demand, food irradiation remains limited in India due to high costs, low ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Wegmans Food Markets is betting that, with mounting concern over food safety, consumers are ready to eat more meat zapped to kill germs. The Rochester-based chain's 62 stores in New York, Pennsylvania ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Wegmans Food Markets last week announced the rollout of its own private-label, irradiated, fresh ground beef. It's the first supermarket chain in the United States to introduce this ...

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 ...