Abstract
When commercially produced, bleached, and enriched wheat flour was artificially infested with insects, packed in metal cans or multiwall paper bags, and irradiated with ca. 40 krad in a 60Co gamma irradiator, insects of all species were present one month later but in much smaller numbers than in the controls. After 3–14 months, no living insects were found in the irradiated flour, and healthy populations were present in the untreated flour. Thus control of insect species in flour can be achieved by doses of ca. 40 krad, but death of the older stages is not immediate.
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