Irradiating food has the same benefits as when it is heated, refrigerated, frozen or treated with chemicals, but without changing the temperature or leaving residues. The technique controls spoilage ...

Eventually, these two cures for rickets were merged in the demonstration that simply eating food that had been irradiated was sufficient (although the realization that this could be done was not ...

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