the Codex General Standard for Irradiated Foods and the Recommended International Code of Practice for Radiation Processing of Food. However, important gaps remain, and “generic treatments” need to be ...

A research team from the Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, has unveiled an approach ...

It was designed for different types of audiences, ranging from members of the general public interested in scientific and technical information about the basics of the food irradiation process to ...

Heavy-ion irradiation, as a novel breeding method ... including strong penetration, extensive sample processing capabilities, and a wide range of mutagenic effects, thereby establishing itself ...

Sunlight is a powerful energy source that scientists can leverage to unlock important chemical conversions. In a recent study ...

THE upgraded irradiation facility at DOST-PNRI headquarters in Quezon City is set to meet the increased demand for radiation processing to match the clients’ production and increase their income.

In medical applications that involve using radioactive sources, efforts are made to ensure that irradiation does not cause any long-term effects. This is done by considering: If the half-life ...

We have demonstrated that cranial irradiation markedly alters hippocampal progenitor-cell biology. Within the irradiated hippocampus, precursor proliferation is reduced by 62% and neuro-genesis is ...

"For us it was therefore of the utmost importance to optimize the speed of the process," Albertini stresses. And they were ...