Food safety aspects relating to the application of X-ray surveillance equipment: memorandum from a WHO meeting.
Inspection of food-containing cargoes using X-rays is safe since no detectable radioactivity will be induced in the foodstuffs provided that an energy level of 10 MeV and a dose of 0.5 Gy are not exceeded.
D005513:Food Inspection / Q000379:methods*; D005514:Food Irradiation; D005516:Food Microbiology; D006801:Humans; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011839:Radiation, Ionizing