Editing Food irradiation (section)

===Nuclear safety and security===
Interlocks and safeguards are mandated to minimize this risk. There have been radiation-related accidents, deaths, and injury at such facilities, many of them caused by operators overriding the safety related interlocks.<ref name="SanSalvador">{{Cite web |url=http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub847_web.pdf |title=''The Radiological Accident in San Salvador'' |access-date=July 26, 2022 |archive-date=May 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170521215111/http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub847_web.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Soreq">{{Cite web |url=http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub925_web.pdf |title=''The Radiological Accident in Soreq'' |access-date=May 23, 2007 |archive-date=November 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121031827/https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub925_web.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Nesvizh">{{Cite web |url=http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1010_web.pdf |title=''The Radiological Accident at the Irradiation Facility in Nesvizh'' |access-date=July 26, 2022 |archive-date=March 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309070122/http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1010_web.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In a radiation processing facility, radiation specific concerns are supervised by special authorities, while "Ordinary" occupational safety regulations are handled much like other businesses.

The safety of irradiation facilities is regulated by the [[International Atomic Energy Agency|United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency]] and monitored by the different national Nuclear Regulatory Commissions. The regulators enforce a safety culture that mandates that all incidents that occur are documented and thoroughly analyzed to determine the cause and improvement potential. Such incidents are studied by personnel at multiple facilities, and improvements are mandated to retrofit existing facilities and future design.

In the US the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates the safety of the processing facility, and the [[United States Department of Transportation]] (DOT) regulates the safe transport of the radioactive sources.