Fact 1: Irradiating food can be used to kill existing microorganisms in the food. Fact 2: Food irradiation is one tool for improving food safety by killing pathogenic microorganisms. Given the two facts above, what does irradiating food do?

Select from the following.
a). Relieve pain.
b). enhance food's nutrients.
c). improves food safety.
d). allows growth of bacteria.
e). increases food waste.
f). chemical changes.
g). get chemical reactions started.
h). major threat to health.
Answer:
c).