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Summary: Dated, but interesting overview
Review: This is a dated text since it is now 4 years after the Conference in Antalya, Turkey. There is much water under the food irradiation bridge.LM Crawford's opinion about the logistics of source has not proven prescient. Service centers remain the dominant source of treatment because of the high cost of facilities. This allows the facility cost to be amortized over several producers without placing and undue burden on the medium and small producers. In Texas, its is the smaller producers that are leading the charge and this opportunity would be lost if one waited to use only inline systems. The section from Gupta that details the APHIS proposed regulations will be helpful for importers as the thoughts behind the final regulations that were approved in the fall of 2002 are presented. Thomas' presentation covers the nuts and bolts of using irradiation for export purposes. Etzel's paper on the Epidemiology of Foodborne Illness is useful for those trying to understand how outbreaks are now tracked in the US. It is dated because the monitoring now is far more widespread. One thing recent history has shown us is that the problem is far bigger than we have ever imagined. We can all appreciate the better monitoring that protects us now. There are papers from Christine Bruhn and Morton Satin, the queen and king of the high ground in this field. The economics for both machine and cobalt sourced facilities are presented. IBA/MDS Nordian employees present these papers. MDS Nordion has a food presence in the US in cobalt facilities only. There are no papers by SureBeam, the industry leader in machine source processing. The book suffers as a result. There is a fascinating recounting of Food Technologies struggles and the progress they have achieved. The papers presented on Chilean grapes and South Africa's use of treated food provide many interesting data points. I recommend a google search of Antalya + irradiation to add color to this book.
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