Food irradiation is a gentle, non-invasive technique that uses radiation to keep food fresh and safe to eat. It eliminates microbes and controls insects and other pests while preserving the ...

Research funded in part by the CDC has shown that food irradiation could reduce the number of foodborne outbreaks caused by pathogens. For the project, researchers looked at 2,153 foodborne outbreaks ...

Say the word “irradiation,” and a lot of people will shudder. Now ask them about irradiated food, and they’ll quickly say something like “definitely not.” Yet as far back as 1999, the U.S. Department ...

Radiation is a bad thing that we don’t want to be exposed to, or so the conventional wisdom goes. We’re most familiar with it in the context of industrial risks and the stories of nuclear disasters ...