The iia invites you to the 21st International Meeting on Radiation Processing (IMRP 2024), taking place 4-8 November 2024 in Costa Rica. The IMRP 2024 theme will be ‘Irradiation Technologies – Available, Sustainable and Growing’. The exhibition space will be at the core of the conference, offering a...
The European Commission has launched INNO4COV-19. This is 6.1 million Euro project to support the marketing of new products to combat COVID-19 throughout Europe over the next two years. The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP is contributing its know-how...
On October 30, 2020 Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) called for comments on the draft food regulatory measure that would permit irradiation as a phytosanitary measure for all fresh fruit and vegetables. Currently, 26 fruits and vegetables can be irradiated according to the Australia New...
To celebrate the recent World Food Day the IAEA in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are highlighting how nuclear and nuclear related techniques are being used to improve food security and agricultural development around the world. For more information click...
During a webinar held on 21 October 2020, the consultancy firm ICF presented the findings of their "Study to support the retrospective evaluation of legislation related to the Irradiation of Food and Food ingredients", conducted on behalf of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Health...
The Organizing Committee of the Medical Device Sterilization Workshop have published a link to the recent virtual workshop, “Medical Device Sterilization: Continuing the Conversation.” iia contributed to the webinar and was represented on panel debate. Video recordings of each session are now available. They can be accessed...
The linked webinar was organised by iia member IBA Industrial. It was held on 23 September and represented the first in a series of planned webinars. The lead speaker was Byron Lambert Sr. Associate Research Fellow, Sterilization Science and founder of Abbott’s Assurance of Sterility Task...
The IAEA is launching a new Coordinated Research Project (CRP) to advance the understanding of radiation effects on polymer materials commonly used in medical devices by comparing the effects of gamma, e-beam, and X-ray irradiation. Proposals are expected no later than 30 November 2020 from experimental...
Ethylene propylene diene terpolymer, or EPDM for short, is a is a widely used synthetic rubber usually compounded with fillers such as carbon black, silica or talc to improve its physical–mechanical properties and to reduce its cost. A considerable amount of research has recently been...
The IAEA report on a study published in the journal Science Robotics which tested the use of a drone to release sterile mosquitoes as part of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) – a form of insect birth control that has been used successfully for decades...
A request for proposal has been published by IAEA concerning the safe storage of disused cobalt-60 sources with facility upgrade and provision, installation and qualification of a new source rack with twelve new Co‐60 pencils in an existing panoramic irradiator. The facility is located at...
On March 2, 2020 the European Union started the public consultation regarding the evaluation of the EU legal framework on food irradiation. The consultation will close on May 25, 2020. According to the European Commission, this open public consultation aims at collecting factual information, views, opinion...
Fraunhofer researchers from the Medical and Biotechnological Applications division (MBA) now intend to develop a methodology that combines biotechnology processes with low-energy electron-beam technology. This hybrid methodology will be combined with existing FEP expertise in the area of sensor technology. Low-energy electron treatment is a versatile...
