Point of knowledge: irradiated food is in fact the food placed in a place where there is radiation, so that it can eliminate bacteria and virus, after irradiation sterilization treatment of food is called irradiated food.

Some foods are now on the market irradiated food (Food Irradiated), but a lot of people hear about the radiation of the words will think of radioactivity, atomic bombs and what, think it is very dangerous. So what exactly is it? Is it safe to eat? Why do you want to be irradiated with food?

Irradiated food is in fact the food is placed in a place where there is radiation, so that it can be sterilized. We know that some of the rays are powerful, such as X rays, alpha rays, beta rays, which kill bacteria and yeast, which can lead to the decay of fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables. Due to irradiation sterilization is very thorough from sterilizing the terms, irradiation sterilization is better than heating disinfection and chemical disinfection, because it is not like high temperature disinfection that change the original taste of the food nor like chemical disinfection as residues in food.

Our country has more than 50 years of radiation disinfection of food history, at present, China's irradiated food has accounted for 30% of the global total. Probably a lot of people will say, is not used for a long time on a certain security, if the irradiated food stained with radioactive sources and then radiation people how to do? This we can do not have to worry about, food irradiation is absolutely safe, the World Health Organization and China National Atomic to mechanism of food irradiation of rigorous evaluation, obtains the conclusion is irradiated food is not contaminated by radioactive sources. Because the radiation used is a ray, not in contact with the radioactive source, the radiation source is isolated from the food at the time of irradiation. It is like a lamp lit room and brighten up the room is light emitted by the light, the room is not electric contact, so the lights are turned off, the room is not because they had been subjected to irradiation and launched their own light. See this metaphor, we must have a new understanding of the irradiated food.

Although the name of the irradiated food sounds terrible, but it's not. It is just an ordinary disinfection, ordinary like we cook at home. Food irradiation and no residue, we can let down your guard, safe to eat.