Xenon, Penn State Look at Pulsed Light Sterilization

September 12, 2001 — WOBURN, MA — Xenon and the Pennsylvania State University Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering recently partnered to study the food sterilization using pulsed light.

The company will work with Dr. A. Demirci on the project.

Currently, the primary sources of food sterilization include gamma radiation and mercury-emitting lamps. Xenon officials however are hoping the company’s SteriPulse system will prove to be safer alternative. It is believed that both gamma irradiation and mercury lamps may not be entirely safe.

The SteriPulse systems utilizes narrow pulses of light that are said to be 80,000 times brighter than sunlight and which last a few hundred millionths of a second.

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