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Food Safety and Commercial Products

Food, Cosmetics, Pet Foods and Packaging

Sterigenics is a leading supplier of high-quality micro-organism-reduction services, offering a choice of gamma, electron beam and ethylene oxide fumigation technologies. At some irradiation facilities, Sterigenics can also provide cold storage for frozen products pre and post treatment.

Cosmetics, Microbial Reduction Food Safety, Shelf Life Extensions Animal Pet Food Safety Packaging, Consumer Safety

Sterigenics will advise on the most appropriate technology for every product and processing requirements based on the different regulations for food products and packaging in various parts of the world.

At a time when food safety issues are increasingly in the news, our custom solutions are enabling food processors, worldwide, to provide cleaner, safer and healthier food products to the marketplace. Our irradiation technology and services for microbial reduction is government approved.

Food Ingredients, Herbs and Spices

A very wide range of dry herbs and spices can be processed using irradiation or ethylene oxide gas.

Sterigenics will recommend and provide a custom spice decontamination program tailored to the product, and your specific needs, taking account of local regulatory requirements.

Fruits and Vegetables

Using irradiation to control pests ensures the import and export of exotic fruits, or the sale of domestic produce from one region to another, can be conducted without the risk of harming local agriculture.

Sterigenics offers:

Very low irradiation dose levels, usually less than 1.5 kGy, where only minimal changes occur in nutritional and organoleptic qualities of the produce.

Food Packaging

Irradiation of empty packaging is considered to be a manufacturing process and is not covered by regulation, other than those regulations that pertain to the suitability of packaging materials in general.

Sterigenics offers irradiation services to provide safe packaging for:

Dairy (cream, butter, coffee creamer)

Processed Foods

Beverage (juice) and Wine Boxes

OTC Health Supplements

Cosmetics, Ingredients, Applicators

Often formulated from a blend of natural and chemical components, health and beauty aids (HBAs) may become contaminated, resulting in rashes, infection and irritation for the consumer. The use of irradiation to control microorganisms and pests in HBA ingredients and applicators would seem to be straightforward. Unfortunately, the complex and unique properties of the cosmetic formulations crowding today's retail shelves make treatment decisions difficult.

Sterigenics has over three decades of successful experience in the commercial treatment of cosmetics, ingredients and applicators. Sterigenics can provide suitable processes for products such as:

Talc

Pigments

Other Raw Materials

Packaging

Cosmetic Gift Packaging and Novelties

Applicators

Animal and Pet Foods

Irradiation effectively controls or eliminates microorganisms in animal feeds and is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat feeds for any animal. The irradiation of poultry feed to control Salmonella is approved by FDA (21 CFR § 579.40).

Irradiation can eliminate Salmonella and other harmful microorganisms in pet foods and pet treats, making them safer for the pet and its human family owners.

Sterigenics provides: a range of processes to control and where necessary eliminate microbial contamination of animal feeds. Applications include:

Animal protein feed components from blood, eggs, organ meats and rendered products

Plant protein feed components such as Brewer's Yeast, dog food (dry and semi-moist),including dog chews.

Feeds and bedding for laboratory animals

Bird Seed for wild and pet birds

Reference Brochures

Food Irradiation: Questions & Answers

Global Food Safety Brochure