Electronic Irradiation of Foods
Subtitle: An Introduction to the Technology (Food Engineering Series)
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 6, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780387237848
First sentence: Food irradiation has generally come to describe the use of ionizing radiation (energetic charged particles such as electrons and alpha particles, or energetic photons such as gamma rays and x-rays) to decrease the population of, or prevent the growth of, undesirable biological organisms in food.