Detection Characteristics of Irradiated Dried Vegetables by Analyzing Photostimulated Luminescence (PSL) and Thermoluminescence (TL)

Photostimulated luminescence (PSI) and thermoluminescence (TL) were analyzed for dried vegetables irradiated at 0, 1, 4 and 7 kGy, such as dried oak mushroom, spinach, radish leaves, water cress, radish, and pumpkin, to detect irradiation treatment. PSL results that photon counts for non-irradiated samples were lower than 700 that corresponds to negative, while those of irradiated samples over 1 kGy showed positive photon counts, indicating irradiation treatment Meantime, TL ratio by normalization was lower than 0.021 in threshold value for non-irradiated samples and more than 0.653 for irradiated samples, and therefore it was possible to detect whether the 6 kinds of dried vegetables were irradiated or not by analyzing PSL and TL.