WHAT IS E-Beam
TECHNOLOGY?
Electron Beam (EB) is today's most modern food processing 'Green
Technology' available to eliminate disease-causing microorganisms
from food and pharma products. EB Irradiation is the future
technology for food safety and shelf life extension of food products
through eBeam Pasteurization (phytosanitary), and high speed
processing sterilization of medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
In the United States, the FDA (Food & Drug Administration), USDA-FSIS
(Food Safety and Inspection Service) and the USDA-APHIS (Animal and
Plant Health Inspection) have approved a number of food and produce
items for use with this technology.
Electron Beam (E-Beam) processing is the method where products are
exposed with accelerated electrons and as a result, the microbes are
deactivated in the product. The mechanism involves breakage of DNA
of the microbe thus rendering it unviable.
THE ELECTRON BEAM TECHNOLOGY
• Reduces and eliminates diseases-causing micro organisms;
• Increases shelf life of food products;
• Controls Insects, Larvae and Eggs;
• The nutritional value is essentially unchanged.
• Energy source is electricity (i.e.non-radioactive)
• Is extremely efficient and has short treatment times.
E-Beam processing has become an important weapon in the food safety
arsenal to fight against the spread of microorganisms and insect
pest in many advanced countries.
Irradiation of food and pharma products with E-Beam does not make
them radioactive, as the process does not involve radioactive
material.
Unlike other methods of treatment, E-Beam technology allows
treatment even in the final packaged product.
Many countries of the world have adopted EB technology for the
safety of food and Pharma products.
