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Irradiating food can destroy insects and bacteria by creating free radicals and radiolytic products that can break apart cell membranes.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

These undergo rapid chemical reactions, producing perhaps four or five thousand different compounds called radiolytic products, some of which make cell function impossible by breaking cell membranes, fracturing DNA, and so on.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Critics argue that the radiolytic products present a lasting hazard, perhaps being carcinogenic.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Since the Salado was also deposited fairly rapidly and removed from cosmic rays, there was little radiolytic degradation of the biomolecules.

From Forbes • Jan. 1, 2014