Radiation Food Technology Park

Sounds like a good idea...will the public accept irradiated food ?

Haven't they already?

I don't see it flying off the shelves...

9. Are irradiated foods on the market now?

Until recently, only irradiated dried spices and enzymes were marketed in the United States. In January 1992, irradiated Florida strawberries were sold at a North Miami supermarket. Sales of irradiated products are ongoing in several grocery stores. Poultry irradiation began commercially in 1993.

Irradiation of food has been approved in 37 countries for more than 40 products. The largest marketers of irradiated food are Belgium and France (each country irradiates about 10,000 tons of food per year), and the Netherlands (which irradiates bout 20,000 tons per year).

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Food Irradiation

Hi Gopal singh Chauhan;

It sounds like the problem is about permits, rather than public acceptance. At least, I'm assuming that bribes are given to public employees to get permits for a project eg. your park. Or funds for the project? Perhaps you could tell us more about the problem.

The cost effective way to sway public opinion nowadays is to start by making yourself a really good website, perhaps in your native language as well, which would make it very clear to people what you have learned in your 15 years and how it can be applied to benefit the people of Indore India.

Please tell us more about your problem.

If you are currently in India, you will be aware of the heat and dust over nuclear power plants. Rival political parties and even religious groups are whipping up fear and frenzy in the minds of people about radiation hazards. There is even some major and misguided discusiion about the hazards of microwave cooking leading to radiolytic damage to food and increased potential for cancer, which is complete non sense as the domestic microwve is non ionizing.

In 1980 I was involved in setting up a Gamma irradiation facility for bio medical research in a federal lab in South India. We had a lot of problem in shiifting the source without raising fear among people on the way from the reactor up North to the southern tip of India. The source has a half life of about five years and sending back the spent source and replacing was another effort.

Leaving aside technical issues, I doubt if such a radiation park will be a commercial success.