The Law on Treatment of Food with Ionising Radiation – Legislative Silence I. Background Irradiation of food and food ingredients has been thoroughly examined scientifically. In 1980, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) as competent sub-bodies of the United Nations and affected jointly by the issue of food-irradiation found that irradiation up to 10 kGy (ki