Food Science & Cooking · Recorded milestone
Food irradiation
Recorded year1958
A plant in Stuttgart, Germany irradiates spices to kill microbes and insects, the first commercial use of radiation to preserve food.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.