This volume provides new research on the irradiation of food and food packaging as a means to reduce and/or eliminate microbiological contamination.

Irradiation of Food and Packaging presents extensive coverage of irradiated foods and food products contaminated with food borne pathogens, and the effects on irradiation and packaging materials and additives. It also shows the effects ionizing radiation has on improved functional components in fresh fruits and vegetables.

Food scientists, packaging scientists, food technologists and engineers who are designing food packages, polymer chemists and polymer engineers who are developing new packaging materials, scientists who are interested in the radiation sterilization of medical products or in the packaging of pharmaceuticals and medical devices utilizing materials similar to those employed for food, as well as legislators seeking scientific information for regulatory decision making will find this resource an invaluable reference book.

Contents

1. Irradiation of Food and Packaging: An Overview
1. Irradiation of Food
   2. Food Irradiation and Marketing in Thailand
   3. Electron Beam Fluidized Bed Processing of Foodstuffs
   4. Mechanisms and Prevention of Off-Odor Production and Color Changes in Irradiated Meat
   5. Irradiation of Ready-to-Eat Meats: Eliminating Listeria monocytogenes While Maintaining Product Quality
   6. Improving Safety and Extending Shelf Life of Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables Using Irradiation
   7. Ionizing Radiation of Seeds and Sprouts: A Review: Irradiated Seeds and Sprouts
   8. Irradiation Applications to Improve Functional Components of Fruits and Vegetables
   9. Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation of Fruit Juices: Benefits and Concerns
   10. Ionizing Radiation of Seafood
   11. Application of Electron Beam to Surimi Seafood

2. Irradiation of Packaging
   12. Irradiation of Prepackaged Food: Evolution of the Food and Drug Administration's Regulation of the Packaging Materials
   13. Fate of Energy Absorbed by Polymers During Irradiation Treatment
   14. Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Food Contact Materials
   15. Effects of Ionizing Radiation on the Migration Behavior and Sensory Properties of Plastic Packaging Materials
   16. Effects of Gamma Irradiation on Polyethylene, Polypropylene, and Polystyrene
   17. Postirradiation Transformation of Additives in Irradiated HDPE Food Packaging Materials: Case Study of Irgafos 168
   18. Effect of Electron Beam and Gamma Radiation on the Migration of Plasticizers from Flexible Food Packaging Materials into Foods and Food Simulants
   19. Physical Evaluation of High-Dose Irradiated Multilayer Pouches
   20. Irradiation of Mail: Effects on Archival Museum Materials

3. Future of Irradiation
   21. Outlook for Food Irradiation in the 21st Century

Author Index
Subject Index

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