LEGISLATION, TECHNICAL POTENTIAL AND CONTROL OF IRRADIATED FOOD IN ROMANIA
Abstract
Knowing the present status and legislative setting of food irradiation in our country is a start point for every researcher who wants to look into ionizing radiation of food practice and control. The paper aims to list the main legislation, to summaries the most important legislative principles, the technical potential and to review the activity of ANSVSA, the Romanian authority in food safety control. The materials reviewed consist of Common order no. 855/98/2002, Common order no. 856/112/2002 and other governmental decisions, normatives and government emergency ordinances related to food irradiation, but also the sites of European Commission and IRASM Technological Irradiations Department, of Horia Hulubei National Institute for Research and Development of Physics and Nuclear Engineering. The conclusion of the study was that Romanian legislation is harmonized with that of the EU and other international guidelines. Additionally, there is technical potential for irradiating foods in the form of IRASM. The control of foods treated with ionizing radiation is performed by ANSVSA supervised by the Ministry of Health.The papers published in the journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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