A Debate on Safety of the Irradiated Food
R. Sundaralingam
Citation :R. Sundaralingam, A Debate on Safety of the Irradiated Food International Journal of Research Studies in Microbiology and Biotechnology 2017,3(4) : 4-5.
After many years of research and development in food safety, more than 60 countries worldwide have regulations allowing the use of irradiation for one or more food products. Irradiation is nothing new, but then neither is the debate about it.
Irradiation technique has been used to sterilize medical and hospital supplies, food packaging materials and cosmetics ingredients for years, but in maintaining food safety this is a novel technique.