Preliminary study on detection of irradiated foodstuffs from the Romanian market

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Volumn 76, Issue 8-9, 2007, Pages 1450-1454

  Cutrubinis, Mihalis ^a   Chirita, Daniel ^a   Savu, Diana ^a   Elisabeta Secu, Corina ^b   Mihai, Radu ^a   Secu, Mihai ^b   Ponta, Corneliu ^a  

^a HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Detection of irradiated foodstuffs; DNA comet assay; Electron spin resonance; Food irradiation; Photostimulated luminescence; Thermoluminescence

Indexed keywords

DNA; FOOD PRODUCTS; IRRADIATION; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

DETECTION METHODS; FOOD IRRADIATION; FOOD SAMPLES;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

CELLULOSE;

ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FOOD IRRADIATION; GAMMA IRRADIATION; MARKET; RADIATION DOSE; ROMANIA; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 34249030027     PISSN: 0969806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2007.02.049     Document Type: Article

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