The attached paper was written by members of the Food Technology Division at Bhabah Atomic Energy Centre in Mumbai, India. Eb.Foodcontrol.Rev....
The iia is pleased to announce the publication of its review of the 20thInternational Meeting on Radiation Processing (IMRP20). The highly successful IMRP20 was hosted by iia in Bangkok during November 2022 and included an innovative program of presentations and panel discussions, Laureate and poster...
The iia is looking to appoint a home-based General Manager who can co-ordinate and lead the varied initiatives of the Association. The International Irradiation Association is an international not-for-profit trade association that supports the interests of the irradiation community and its key markets that include healthcare, phytosanitary treatments, polymer...
The iia was invited to speak during the opening plenary sessions of the China International Conference on Nuclear Technology Applications (CICNTA) which is being held today and tomorrow in Haiyan, Zhejiang province, China. The first CICNTA conference was held in 2018. The current conference was...
TRAD Tests & radiations, a member of iia, has announced the release of RayXpert® version 1.9 with improvements and new features. RayXpert is the most used modeling tool based on a Monte Carlo calculation method. It allows users to accurately simulate a sterilisation or reticulation process...
In order to meet the sterilisation requirements associated with continuing growth in medical device manufacturing, STERIS has announced plans for additional electron beam processing capacity at its facility in Biassono, Italy. The planned investment complements the existing EO, e-beam and testing services that are available...
Our member the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP in Dresden, Germany, is intensively working on low-energy electron beam processes in aqueous biosystems in the field of medical and biotechnological applications. To date, there is no satisfactory tool to determine dose...
The Phytosanitary Irradiation Forum held at IMRP 20 in Bangkok (November 2022) was well attended and generated continued enthusiasm to ensure that this growing market is nurtured. In recent months leading members of the community have been in discussion with the iia in order to determine...
The iia is pleased to welcome Dioxitek S.A. as its newest member. Dioxitek , based in Argentina, undertake various activities including the production of uranium dioxide powder used to fuel nuclear power plants in Argentina, the commercialisation of Moybenum-99 used in nuclear medicine and the production...
The 10th International Workshop on Radiation Processing is organized by ASTM Committee E61 on Radiation Processing. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the standards development meetings of the committee. Attendance will be limited to the first 75 participants who register. Visit the iia events...
James Scongack of Bruce Power gave a keynote presentation at IMRP18 in Vancouver. Several years later the International Irradiation Association (iia) was one of a small number of organisations that supported the formation of the Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council (CNIC). Today iia continues to support...
A team from STERIS, led by Brian McEvoy, have published studies on the comparative effectiveness of X-rays, gamma rays and electron beams to inactivate microorganisms at different dose rates in industrial sterilization of medical devices. The paper has been published in the July 2023 edition of...
