Generic approvals of irradiated foods: Application of the chemiclearance principle
- Natick RD&E Center, MA (United States)
The use of irradiation for food preservation requires premarket approval primarily by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), based on data establishing the safety of the process. Several approvals have already been granted on the strength of extensive microbiological, genotoxicity, nutritional, and animal feeding studies. Extending approval to other foods that are pasteurized or are sterilized by treatment to high doses, and consequently storable of ambient temperatures, does not necessarily have to involve comprehensive research on each and every food item. Generic approvals of classes of food is possible, because of the commonality in the response of similar foods to treatment by ionizing irradiation. This commonality is the basis for the chemiclearance principle, by which it can be shown that compositionally similar conditions are toxicologically equivalent. The use of different chemical investigations into radiolytic effects in both low and high dose irradiated muscle foods will be discussed to illustrate the application of this approach for obtaining approvals, nationally and internationally.
- OSTI ID:
- 369955
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960376-; TRN: 96:003805-0002
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Spring national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), New Orleans, LA (United States), 24-28 Mar 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of 211th ACS national meeting; PB: 2284 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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