A LONG TERM FEEDING STUDY ON CHICKEN AND GREEN BEANS. Progress Report No. III for September 1, 1957 to March 1, 1958. General Progress Report No. XI on A LONG RANGE INVESTIGATION OF THENUTRITION PROPERTIES OF IRRADIATED FOOD

Technical Report · Sat Oct 31 04:00:00 EST 1959

OSTI ID:4281585

Richardson, L R

Data are presented from a study of the effects of an irradiated diet on the incidence of blindness in rats. Preliminary results are inconclusive. When an antioxidant was added to pork fatty tissue before irradiation, a chick diet mixture containing 10% irradiated fatty tissue could be stored for 3 weeks at room temperature without marked deterioration. When diets containing pork fatty tissue, irradiated without an antioxidant, were stored one week the chicks grew slowly and mortality was high. When the antioxidant was added to the diet containing irradiated fatty tissue at the time the diet was mixed, the mortality was low and the chicks receiving diets stored for as long as three weeks grew at the same rate regardless of storage period. Rats in the parent and F/sub 1/ generation receiving various combinations of irradiated chicken and green beans grew at essentially the same rate as those receiving a control diet. (C.H.)

• Research Organization: Texas. Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station
• NSA Number: NSA-13-007361
• OSTI ID: 4281585
• Report Number(s): NP-7283
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

AGE
ANIMALS
BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
BIRDS
BLINDNESS
CHICKENS
DIET
EYES
FOOD
GENETICS
GREEN BEANS
IRRADIATION
MALFORMATIONS
ORGANIC ACIDS
OXIDATION
PRESERVATION
RADIATION EFFECTS
RATS
STORAGE
SURVIVAL TIME
SWINE
TEMPERATURE
TISSUES
VEGETABLES