

- We do! Or, at least we are allowed to. I’m mostly aware of it being done with meats.
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The FDA requires that irradiated foods bear… the statement “Treated with radiation”…
- The word “radiation” is scary to the general public. It conjures thoughts of glowing rocks and nuclear fallout. It makes folk imagine that their food might be radioactive.
Yes, though it does not affect the nutritive content or prevent subsequent cultures from taking root, so you can still inoculate irradiated foodstuffs with live ginger bug, yeast, scoby, mother, etc. or open air ferment.