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Article | REF: IN12 V2

Detection of irradiated foods

Authors: Jacques RAFFI, Jacky KISTER

Publication date: September 10, 2012

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2. Food ionization

2.1 Principle

Ionizing treatment involves subjecting foodstuffs to gamma radiation (from cobalt 60), X-rays with energies of less than 5 MeV, or accelerated electron beams with energies of less than 10 MeV.

Note :

1 MeV = 10 6 eV; 1 e = 1.6 × 10 –19 joule

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