Toxicological and radiological safety of chicken meat irradiated with 7.5 MeV X-rays
| Autor: | Jae-Kyung Kim, Beom-Seok Song, Dongho Kim, Il-Jun Kang, Yunjong Lee, Jong-Heum Park, Chang-Jong Kim, Ha-Young Park |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
030109 nutrition & dietetics Radiation biology 010308 nuclear & particles physics business.industry Chemistry Fowl Physiology Body weight biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences Radiological weapon 0103 physical sciences Toxicity Irradiation Nuclear medicine business Icr mice Normal range |
| Zdroj: | Radiation Physics and Chemistry. 144:211-217 |
| ISSN: | 0969-806X |
| Popis: | This study was conducted to evaluate the toxicological and radiological safety of chicken meat that had been irradiated at 30 kGy with 7.5 MeV X-rays. In a sub-chronic toxicity study, ICR mice were fed X-ray-irradiated chicken meat at 2500 mg/kg body weight daily for 90 days, and no mortality or abnormal clinical signs were observed throughout the study period. However, several hematological and serum biochemical parameters of the ICR mice differed significantly from those in the control group; nevertheless, the observed values were all within the normal range for the respective parameters. In addition, no toxicological effects were determined in male or female mice. Furthermore, no differences in gamma-ray spectrometric patterns were detected between the non-irradiated and irradiated samples, indicating that the radioactivity induced by 7.5 MeV X-ray irradiation was below the detection limit. These results tentatively suggest that chicken meat irradiated with 7.5 MeV X-rays would be safe for human consumption in terms of toxicology and radiology. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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