date:Apr 16, 2014
staceans, or cooked, or ready-to-cook, crustaceans processed with spices or small amounts of other food ingredients.
At the maximum permitted dose of 6.0 kiloGray (kGy), this new use of ionizing radiation will reducae, but not entirely eliminate, the number of pathogenic microorganisms including Listeria, Vibrio and E. coli in or on crustaceans.
Irradiation is not a substitute for proper food-handling practices, FDA pointed out. Crustaceans treated with ionizing radiation must be stored, han