Sentences with phrase «as food irradiation»

Not exact matches

Food irradiation has been a subject of intense investigation for almost half a century and extension of shelf life of foods by gamma radiation is legally permitted in more than 40 countries covering a number of foods such as onion, potato, wheat, spices, flours, meat, poultry, fish, pulses, rice, semolina, fruits, vegetables and dry fruits.

Foods claiming to be organic must be free of artificial food additives, and are often processed with fewer artificial methods, materials and conditions, such as chemical ripening, food irradiation, and genetically modified ingredients.

«Organic» defines foods produced by methods with no synthetic inputs such as pesticides, chemical fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, irradiation, industrial solvents or chemical food additives.

Dr. Michael Osterholm, the Minnesota - based food safety authority who I have never met but know about through his expertise and strong support for irradiation as a beef safety measure

Throughout this website, organic is the absence of synthetic chemicals such as pesticides, antibiotics, food additives, and fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, irradiation, and the use of sewage sludge.

However, this policy was not intended to address food production methods, such as the use of pesticides, nor did it explicitly address food processing or manufacturing methods, such as thermal technologies, pasteurization, or irradiation.

The logic for irradiation as one tool (among many) for expanding and safeguarding food supplies goes well beyond the potential benefits of killing pathogens.

I was glad to see Mark Bittman offer a solid appraisal of the merits of irradiation as a means of cutting the chances of outbreaks of food - borne illness, and to see the followup Big Think post by David Ropeik providing more depth on what he calls the «perception gap» between people's fears of this technology and its risks.