Irradiation of biological objects using an ionization beam in order to inhibit conditionally pathogenic and pathogenic microflora of agricultural raw materials

The use of radiation technologies in agriculture and the food industry is a common worldwide trend. Global reduction of food products at all stages of production has reached 30 percent. Especially significant reduction is in fruits and vegetables production. Radiation treatment of food products helps to suppress the development of pathogenic microorganisms as a result it extends the storage periods. Despite numerous studies in this field, existing methods of irradiation require optimization in order to ensure the possibility of using irradiation for all types of fruit and vegetable products. This research work is focused on the study of the effectiveness of irradiation of model systems containing conditionally pathogenic microflora by electron beams with an energy of 10 MeV. The aim of these developments is to study the effectiveness of electron beam irradiation application to suppress pathogenic microorganisms that cause bacterial contamination of food products. In this regard, the following tasks were set: to determine the degree of investigated microorganism’s stability and to find the differences between horizontal and vertical positions of the samples during irradiation...