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by pests 552 days ago
non irradiated?
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It’s a common sterilisation technique [1].

[1] https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/food-irra...

Quite common for example for dried spices, which pre-irradiation used to have a risk of dangerous bacterial contamination if they were dried outside.