It’s a situation that was unthinkable before.” Gamma-ray radiation is an effective method for low-temperature sterilization, and is also effective against endotoxins, enabling sterilization ...

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Instead, gamma rays—high-energy photons produced by the radioactive decay of cobalt-60—became the go-to radiation sterilization technology. Since that time, and especially in the last decade ...

Configured to provide gamma dose rates over four orders of magnitude, the gamma irradiation facilities have been used extensively for food irradiation studies, developing optimized radiation doses for ...

Another research effort investigated the compatibility of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) multilayer films with different ionizing radiation sterilization methods. This study found that gamma and X ...

which has led to the design of new compounds that preserve the shapes of signature antigen proteins in vaccines that require sterilization by gamma radiation. While D. radiodurans' MDP clearly ...

Niki Fidopiastis, SteriPro’s consulting director, will serve as a trainer at the Radiation Sterilization for Medical Devices Training Programme ...