Food security: Irradiation and essential oil vapors for cereal treatment
E-Mail IMAGE: INRS Professor Monique Lacroix is an expert in sciences applied to food, such as irradiation. view more Credit: Christian Fleury (INRS) A combined treatment of irradiation and essential oil vapors could effectively destroy insects, bacteria and mold in stored grains. A team from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), led by Professor Monique Lacroix, has demonstrated the effect of this process on insects affecting rice. The study was published in the Microorganisms and insects are the main enemies of stored grains. Currently, the food industry u...
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