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News Ghana reports that "Post-harvest food and grain losses pose serious challenges for most of African countries. According to estimates provided by the African Post-harvest Losses Information System, the value of post-harvest grain losses in sub-Saharan Africa could total US$4billion a year out of an...
The feedback period has been extended till July 6, 2020. This evaluation aims to assess whether the current EU legislative framework related to the irradiation of food and food ingredients is still fit for purpose and delivers as expected. It will focus on whether the objectives...
The International Irradiation Association, the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture and 30 other people/organisations have submitted comments on the "Evaluation of the EU legal framework on food irradiation" ahead of the submission deadline today. The letter from iia and from...
Directive 1999/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council dated 22 February 1999 concerning foods and food ingredients treated with ionizing radiation. Access the report via the following link. EU Directive 1999:2:EC...
The IAEA held a Technical Meeting on Recycling of Polymer Wastes by Radiation at the IAEA’s Headquarters in Vienna, Austria, from 30 September 2019 to 4 October 2019 As of 2015, approximately 6300 Mt of polymer waste had been generated, around 9% of which had been...
Crosslinked insulation and jacketing provide environmentally friendly wires and cables with improved performance properties such as resistance to abrasion, higher temperature use, chemical resistance and the ability to withstand greater mechanical forces. This White Paper was published by IBA in 2021. Click to access the IBA...
The maximum limit of 1 kGy imposed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) on fresh produce irradiated for phytosanitary purpose often poses challenges to radiation processors. The iia has created a small informal group to write...
Trade in fresh produce irradiated for phytosanitary purpose has now reached 50,000 tons per year and continues to grow. On March 27, 2020 the first shipment of irradiated persimmons from Queensland reached Thailand. This was the first shipment of any irradiated fresh produce from Australia to...
In a note published in Biocontrol News and Information [31(2), 11N–12N] Dr Peter A. Follett (USDA-ARS, Hawaii, USA) elaborated on the possible harmful effects of X-ray radiation from baggage or parcels inspection systems when live biological material is shipped. Insect irradiation studies normally involve application of radiation doses...
The 2019/20 export season delivered another record result for the Australian fresh produce industry utilising phytosanitary irradiation protocols, according to an article published by…click here for MORE INFO - available via the iia Phytosanitary Irradiation Platform (PsIP). First published by iia July 2020...
The Asia Pacific Plant Protection Commission (APPPC) organizing a Regional Workshop on Phytosanitary Irradiation Treatment in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources of Australia and the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand. The workshop was held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 25 February...
Evaluation of Directive 1999/2/EC on food treated with ionising radiation Feedback received by the European Commission Summary In 2017, the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission decided to undertake an evaluation of Directive 1999/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22...
