Setting up such facilities has good scope in view of food safety requirements
The Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology (BRIT), an arm of the Department of Atomic Energy, is trying to encourage entrepreneurs to set up irradiation facilities.
Irradiation is the modern method of sterilising fruits or vegetables of insects.
Providing irradiation services is good business as there are only 15 such facilities in the country. It is woefully inadequate given the sheer size of the country.
Three of the 15 facilities are owned by BRIT, which operates them on a not-for-profit basis. These facilities are reference plants for high, medium and low dose radiation – high for sterilisation of medicines and syringes, medium for the likes of spices, pet food and cosmetics and low for onion, potatoes, to prevent them from sprouting.............click for more
Source: BusinessLine
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