Canada’s beef industry is renewing its push for the approval of irradiation in meat processing plants, which it claims could help reduce foodborne illness from ground beef. The Canadian Cattlemen’s ...

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 ...

Research funded in part by the CDC has shown that food irradiation could reduce the number of foodborne outbreaks caused by pathogens. For the project, researchers looked at 2,153 foodborne outbreaks ...

From controlling pests in shipments of grains to increasing the shelf life of packaged foods to adding more choices to the dinner trays of hospital patients, food irradiation contributes to improving ...

The Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture in collaboration with the IAEA Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences has launched a new five-year (2020-2025) Coordinated ...

Gamma irradiation technology was established in the 1950’s and has developed to become the most commonly used irradiation sterilization technology. Today approximately 300 irradiation facilities ...

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 ...