When irradiation is used to protect foods from contamination, what happens to the quality of those foods?
a. Vitamin loss is comparable to that of other food processing methods
b. Fruits will ripen more quickly.
c. Very slight amounts of residual radiation will remain in the foods.
d. All foods will have a modest amount of texture change.
e. The DNA structure remains intact so no quality differences are detectable.
a
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