Food irradiation in Hungary: commercial processing and development work

The result of an experiment with irradiated frozen poultry meat is presente d. The purpose of the experiment was to prove,the benefit of irradiation tr eatment for elimination of pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella and Campy lobacter. We found that an average dose of 4.5 kGy kills the bacteria in th e meat. Agroster was involved in an EU project on the identification of irr adiation treatment of spices and data from this project are presented. Comm ercial irradiation of spices has been used for more than 15 years in Hungar y, proving the benefit of this technology (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. Al l rights reserved.