I'll have to research it further but considering I'm an X-ray tech working with and being exposed to ionizing radiation all the time, I'll give you my input.
Ionizing radiation can potentially cause cell mutation that would potentially cause side effects such as cataracts, cancer, birth defects etc. radiation poisoning induces vomiting, burns, and could eventually decouple DNA but this is in living tissue.
To say that it would decrease the level of nutrition is something I can't attest to but its purpose is to kill living organisms within the already dead food. The radiation has been either scattered outside of the tissue or absorbed at a cellular level and therefore gone. You would literally have to inject the food with a radioactive isotope for it to be radioactive and even then the half life of such isotopes are hours.
But like I said, I'll have to do more research on it as I've never heard of this process
Ionizing radiation can potentially cause cell mutation that would potentially cause side effects such as cataracts, cancer, birth defects etc. radiation poisoning induces vomiting, burns, and could eventually decouple DNA but this is in living tissue.
To say that it would decrease the level of nutrition is something I can't attest to but its purpose is to kill living organisms within the already dead food. The radiation has been either scattered outside of the tissue or absorbed at a cellular level and therefore gone. You would literally have to inject the food with a radioactive isotope for it to be radioactive and even then the half life of such isotopes are hours.
But like I said, I'll have to do more research on it as I've never heard of this process