Phytosanitary Irradiation.
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SUBMITTER: Hallman GJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5224571 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
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Phytosanitary Irradiation.
Hallman Guy J GJ Blackburn Carl M CM
Foods (Basel, Switzerland) 20160120 1
Phytosanitary treatments disinfest traded commodities of potential quarantine pests. Phytosanitary irradiation (PI) treatments use ionizing radiation to accomplish this, and, since their international commercial debut in 2004, the use of this technology has increased by ~10% annually. Generic PI treatments (one dose is used for a group of pests and/or commodities, although not all have been tested for efficacy) are used in virtually all commercial PI treatments, and new generic PI doses are prop ...[more]
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