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== Further reading ==
World Health Organization publications:
Safety and nutritional adequacy of irradiated food, WHO, Geneva, 1994
High-dose irradiation: Wholesomeness of food irradiated with doses above 10 kGy, WHO, Geneva, 1999, Technical Report Series No. 890
Facts about Food Irradiation, A series of Fact Sheets from the International Consultative Group on Food Irradiation (ICGFI), 1999, IAEA, Vienna, Austria at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-03-16)
Diehl, J.F., Safety of irradiated foods, Marcel Dekker, N.Y., 1995 (2. ed.)
Satin, M., Food irradiation, Technomic, Lancaster, 1996 (2. ed.)
Urbain, W.M., Food irradiation, Academic Press, Orlando, 1986
Molins, R. (ed.), Food irradiation – Principles and applications, Wiley Interscience, N.Y., 2001
Sommers, C.H. and Fan, X. (eds.), Food Irradiation Research and Technology, Blackwell Publishing, Ames, IA, 2006
The Food That Would Last Forever : Understanding the Dangers of Food Irradiation, by Gary Gibbs, Garden City Park, N.Y. : Avery Pub. Group, c1993
anon., Food Irradiation: Available Research Indicates That Benefits Outweigh Risks, RCED-00-217, August 24, 2000, Government Accountability Office, United States General Accounting Office, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, Washington, D.C. 20548 "Food Irradiation"
Farkas, József; Mohácsi-Farkas, Csilla (March 2011). "History and future of food irradiation". Trends in Food Science & Technology. 22 (2–3): 121–126. doi:10.1016/j.tifs.2010.04.002.
WHO Statement on 2-Dodecylcyclobutanone and Related Compounds, 2003 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2013-04-29)
Evaluation of the Significance of 2-Dodecylcyclobutanone and other Alkylcyclobutanones Archived August 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine

== External links ==

Codex Alimentarius
Codex Alimentarius General Standard for Irradiated Foods (CAC/STAN 106-1983, rev.1 2003) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-09-26)
Codex Alimentarius Recommended International Code of Practice Code for Radiation Processing of Foods (CAC/RCP 19-1979, rev.2 – 2003) Archived October 5, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
General Standard for the Labelling of Prepacked Foods (CODEX STAN 1-1985) Archived April 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
Food Irradiation Processing Alliance FIPA represents the irradiation service industry, manufacturers of food irradiators and suppliers of cobalt-60 sources.
Irradiation of Food and Food Packaging at the Wayback Machine (archived 2009-03-04), Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (US Government)
Facts about Food Irradiation at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-03-16), a series of 14 fact sheets, International Consultative Group on Food Irradiation, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1991
Bibliography on Food Irradiation Archived May 3, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, Federal Research Centre for Nutrition and Food, Karlsruhe, Germany
IAEA interactive map of irradiation facilities Archived April 20, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
Keener, Kevin M. "Department of Food Science Food Irradiation: To Zap or not to Zap?" (PDF). North Carolina State University. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 7, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2021.