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γ-IRRADIATION of foods shows increasing promise for the improvement of storage life, the inhibition of sprouting, and the disinfestation, sterilization and pasteurization of selected commodities. Treatments with gamma irradiation under 50 kr. have been shown to disinfest as well as improve the storage life of fresh pineapples without producing undesirable changes in the fruit colour, flavour and sweetness1.
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MÄKINEN, Y., UPADHYA, M. & BREWBAKER, J. Cytotoxic Effects of Extracts from γ-irradiated Pineapples. Nature 214, 413 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214413a0
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