The increasingly strict regulations to ensure microbiological safety and quarantine security of food in trade present a new challenge to food science and technology. Food irradiation has emerged as a viable and validated treatment to meet both sanitary and phytosanitary requirements in food trade.
With the current Codex General Standard for Irradiated Foods endorsing the safety and effectiveness of irradiation as a food process regardless of absorbed dose and the International Guidelines on Irradiation Phytosanitary Measures already issued by the International Plant Protection Convention, the sky's the limit for irradiation to enhance food safety, security and trade.
IFIC's mission is to communicate science-based information on food safety and nutrition to health and nutrition professionals, educators, journalists, government officials and others providing information to consumers. IFIC is supported primarily by the broad-based food, beverage and agricultural industries.
A food policy council is a coalition of food system stakeholders who advise a city, county, or state government on policies related to agriculture, food distribution, hunger, food access, and nutrition.
