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Post-Harvest Processing of Fruits and Vegetables by Ionizing Radiation

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Production Practices and Quality Assessment of Food Crops

Conclusion

Radiation processing is emerging as an alternate technology for application to fruits and vegetables. It can be effectively used for sprout control in bulbs and tubers. A few commercial facilities for catering to this application are already functioning. The technology has a vast potential for replacing fumigants for quarantine treatment. This potential is also beginning to be tapped for commercial application and is likely to pick up a great deal under the WTO regime for trade in fresh horticultural commodities. Other potential uses of this technology required to be tapped relate to the delay in ripening and senescence of fruits and vegetables and also for shelf-life extension and hygienization of precut or minimally processed fruits and vegetables. However, standardization of process parameters and techno-economic feasibility of scaling up such facilities remains to be carried out.

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