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Re:Inside the food industry by bsder on Saturday February 21, 2015 @08:00PM (#9087720)
And, oddly, a lot of this weird shelf-life ingredients dance could be sidestepped if we sealed and irradiated food.

However, radiation isn't "natural".

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Re:Inside the food industry by bgvrofg on Saturday February 21, 2015 @08:44PM (#9087837)
That is an interesting idea, as far as I know you can radiate something and not have it become radioactive.

I wonder what is the real reason it is not used, maybe it decomposes the food after a while?

Apparently it is used in some cases ( very interesting [0] ), but looks like the fear is still big.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation

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Re:Inside the food industry by DanBC on Sunday February 22, 2015 @05:38AM (#9088974)
The real reason it's not used is because people do mot understand radiation and fear it in all its forms.
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Re:Inside the food industry by chris_va on Saturday February 21, 2015 @08:35PM (#9087814)
"Extract of sunlight"
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Re:Inside the food industry by xenophonf on Sunday February 22, 2015 @08:37AM (#9089346)
More like Cobalt-60 extract:

http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/iachem/Brochure%20on%20gamma%...

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