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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Industrial sterilization is primarily used for medical and healthcare products including a wide range of single-use medical products and devices. Historically, sterilization is mostly done using gamma ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...