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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With increasing acceptance and application of food irradiation, there is an increasing need to disseminate information about irradiated food to the consumers in an objective and clear manner. All ...

Exactly two years ago, just-food.com said that the day could well come when consumers would welcome irradiation as a valuable protection against foodborne threats. Has this day arrived? Bernice Hurst ...

EMBARGO NOTE FOR REPORTERS: ALL PAPERS IN THIS SYMPOSIUM ARE EMBARGOED FOR 1:00 P.M., AUG. 19. BOSTON, Aug. 19 — The vast majority of the scientific and medical community, including the World Health ...

The government proposed Tuesday relaxing its rules on labeling of irradiated foods and suggested it may allow some products zapped with radiation to be called “pasteurized.” The Food and Drug ...

Con la marca Atomik y una certificación de libre de radiactividad, el licor artesanal forma parte de un plan para resucitar la agricultura de la región y ayudar a los residentes que viven cerca del ...

PAULLINA, Iowa --Food safety has become a major subject of importance to consumers. One reason why food safety has become so important is that new types of bacteria causing serious illness to people ...

DEAR READERS: See the following post from pet food safety advocate Susan Thixton:. Dr. Fox here: Food irradiation can destroy essential nutrients and create radiolytic breakdown products that may put ...