Identification of irradiated food: The current status

✍ Scribed by M.H. Stevenson; E.M. Stewart

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 401 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0969-806X
• DOI: 10.1016/0969-806x(95)00236-q

✦ Synopsis

There are a number of methods now available for the identification of a range of irradiated foods. Following successful evaluation in interlaboratory blind trials, five standard methods, based on thermoluminescence, electron spin resonance spectroscopy and the formation of hydrocarbons and cyclobutanones, have been submitted to the European Committee of Standardization (CEN) for its consideration. Research is continuing in the development of other techniques and in the future additional methods may become available.