DETERMINATION OF RADIATION STERILIZATION DOSE FOR CANNED MEAT. Report No. 13 (Final) for August 1, 1957-November 30, 1959
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4139173
Canned ground beef containing 5,000,000 Clostridium betulinum spores per gram were sterilized with between 3.80 and 3.85 megarad of gamma rays. Botulinus toxin was regularly found in irradiation-sterilized and incubated cans of ground beef inoculated with 2,670,000 or more Clostridium botulinum 62A spores per gram. The lethality of gamma rays for Clostridium betulinum spores was found to be slightly dependent upon both the temperature during irradiation and the intensity of the radiation field. Canned peas, inoculated with Clostridium betulinum spores, were more easily sterilized with combined irradiation-heat processing than by either form of energy alone. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Michigan. Univ., Ann Arbor. Medical School
- NSA Number:
- NSA-14-019281
- OSTI ID:
- 4139173
- Report Number(s):
- NP-8889
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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