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FDA approves use of ionizing radiation on meat, poultry products
Story Date: 12/3/2012
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Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 11/30/12
The Food & Drug Administration filed today two final rules amending the food additive regulations allowing safe use of ionizing radiation to reduce foodborne pathogens and extend shelf life of meat and poultry products.
The first final rule approves the safe use of a 4.5-kilogray maximum absorbed dose of ionizing radiation to treat unrefrigerated (and refrigerated) uncooked meat, meat byproducts and certain meat food products.
The second final rule ups the maximum dose of ionizing radiation allowed in the treatment of poultry products, to include specific language intended to clarify the poultry products covered by the regulations, and to remove the limitation that any packaging used during irradiation of poultry shall not exclude oxygen.
FDA issued the rules in response to petitions filed in 1999 by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. The went into effect today.
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