What Is Food Irradiation?

In general, the various processes used to ensure the quality of the food, such as heat treatment, drying, freezing, and the use of chemicals. This treatment is required for easy food contaminated with microorganisms that cause millions of cases of food-borne diseases such as diarrhea and even death, especially among children in developing countries.

In addition, many of the farms being damaged during transport and storage due to insect pests or biochemical effects in the decomposition process. One of the techniques or technology used is also known as irradiation or food irradiation utilizing nuclear technology. Irradiation is an alternative technology that is scientifically proven to improve food security, reduce post-harvest loss of agricultural

Until now, food irradiation has been approved occupational safety and health authorities in more than 60 countries, including Malaysia.

The use of food irradiation must be coupled with a standard Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), which serves as a guideline to the food industry for the production of quality food.

Food produced without the use of GMP will contain elements of high contamination that can not be processed at the recommended dose irradiation. Thus, like other processes, food irradiation is not to replace the GMP in food production. Irradiated food does not become radioactive as well as the energy of radiation used is low to induce radioactivity in food.

On the issues raised, Dr. Magna said that there was confusion or misunderstanding, people equate it with food radioactive. Radioactive contamination of food produced by radioisotopes in the event of an accident, such as the case of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine in 1986 and Fukushima in Japan in 2011. The food is affecting the health impact of radioactive radiation on the tissue or organ of the body when the isotope in the