Organically grown Valencia oranges are on display at a Whole Foods Market in Los Angeles. All food preservation processes affect taste and nutritional content to some degree, but the Food and Drug ...

In nature there are quite a few minerals that incorporate uranium and thorium in their crystal structure. This causes radioactive self-irradiation that, over geologic periods of time, may destroy the ...

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 ...

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 ...

We've irradiated food to make it safer for over a century. That doesn't mean it's always a good thing, though. Authorities subsequently detected elevated levels of the radioisotope Cesium-137 (Cs-137) ...

Technologists from Cuba’s Centre for Radiation Protection and Hygiene (CPHR) successfully removed 52 disused sealed radioactive sources from the country’s only food irradiation plant on 11 and 12 ...

Congratulations to Canada for approving the use of irradiation to help prevent contamination of ground beef from causing foodborne illness. The process has been approved in the US for a variety of ...

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to the spices, seeds, fruits and vegetables that travel from distant origins to your local grocer. A small dose of radiation helps make it possible for ...