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Radiological safety of food research

Research investigating the impact of radiological discharges in the UK on foodstuffs, and the safety and detection of irradiated food.

  • Radiological surveillance
  • Food irradiation
  • Radioactivity in food and the environment

Radiological surveillance

  • Post-Chernobyl monitoring and controls survey reports
  • Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE)
  • Review of the radiological monitoring programmes

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Food irradiation

  • Detection of cyclobutanones in non-irradiated food
  • Optimisation of photostimulated luminescence detection for irradiated dietary supplements
  • Review of current inspection devices that use ionising radiation
  • Review of the safety of irradiated foods

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Radioactivity in food and the environment

  • Effects of chemical speciation of Sulphur-35 released into the atmosphere
  • Radiocaesium activity concentrations in sheep from restricted areas in England and Wales
  • Technetium 99 availablility to marine foodstuffs from contaminated sediments
  • Transfer of radioactivity from seaweed to terrestrial foods and potential radiation exposures

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  • Archive of radiological safety of food research

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