Decontamination of gum arabic with γ-rays or electron beams and effects of these treatments on the material

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 26-31

  Farag Zaied, Serag ^a   Mohamed Youssef, Bothaina ^a   Desouky, Omar ^a   Salah El Dien, Mahmoud ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR RADIATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

rays; Bacteria; Decontamination; Electron beams; Gum arabic; Hunter color; Scanning electron microscopy; Sterilization; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DECONTAMINATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; FUNGI; FUNGICIDES; GAMMA RAYS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STERILIZATION (CLEANING); VISCOSITY;

DARKENING; FOOD INDUSTRY; GUM ARABIC; HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS; MATERIAL DEGRADATION;

ADHESIVES;

GUM ARABIC; PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FOOD INDUSTRY; IRRADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; VISCOSITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DECONTAMINATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRONS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GAMMA RAYS; GUM ARABIC; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; STERILIZATION;

EID: 33846028759     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2006.05.008     Document Type: Article

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