Ensuring food safety using space technology
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 08:15
in Physics & Chemistry
A team led by Marco Casolino of the RIKEN Global Research Cluster's EUSO Team and Masayuki Goto of G-Tech corporation, a private company engaged in the development of radiation measurement equipment, have used technology originally designed for use in outer space to create a new system, called LANFOS, which can inexpensively and non-destructively detect radioactive cesium contamination in food, separating it from the background of radiation caused by natural levels of radioactive potassium.