A new report into irradiation finds conflicting and inconsistent
regulatory approaches to the use of the technology worldwide, a
problem for multinational processors who are using the technique as
a food safety measure.
The US Government's food safety leader, Elsa Murano, has said that
despite irradiation being an effective way to maintain the safety
of meats, companies are still slow on the uptake because the system
often remains prohibitively...
In response to the growing rise in concern for the safety of the
global food chain, the First World Congress on Food Irradiation is
to take place in the US next month.
A father-and-son team in the US are hoping to take the food
irradiation market by storm. Irad, owned by Dan and Justin Siegel,
which currently makes irradiation machines for the medical and
industrial markets is to set to branch out...