date:May 03, 2013
and director of the National Center for Electron Beam Research at Texas AM University.
A salient feature of e-beam pasteurisation technology is that it uses commercial electricity to generate the ionising radiation that inactivates the viruses. It is a green technology because no chemicals are involved.
Dr Pillai said the FDA already has approved the use of electron beam technology as a pathogen intervention strategy to control the naturally occurring Vibrio vulnificus bacterial pathogen in s