The following is a summary of the most important applications of irradiation sterilization:
- Sterilization of medical consumables and certain pharmaceuticals
- Cold pasteurization of food
- Cold pasteurization of pet food
- Bio burden reduction of consumer goods. E.g.
- cosmetics and toiletries
- pharmaceutical raw material
- food packaging
- dyes and colorants
- Disinfections of hospital waste
- Degradation of toxic wastes
- Degradation of selected polymer resins
- Depolymerization of cellulose
- Radiation doping of semiconductors
- Coloring of glass and gemstones
- Crosslinking of plastics, mainly PE
- by introduction of the memory effect into heat shrink and stretch wrap materials
- elimination of monomer residues from polymers
- generation of foams for protective clothing
- improving of green strength in rubber