You are presented with the question "What does irradiating food do?" and the following answer choices: 
- Relieve pain
 - enhance food's nutrients
 - improves food safety
 - allows growth of bacteria
 - increases food waste
 - chemical changes
 - get chemical reactions started
 - major threat to health

Now knowing that irradiating food can be used to kill existing microorganisms in the food and food irradiation is one tool for improving food safety by killing pathogenic microorganisms, choose the best answer.


 

   improves food safety      