Evaluation of the effect of gamma-ray irradiation on starch by near-infrared spectroscopy

In order to evaluate the effect of gamma-ray irradiation on starch, near-infrared absorption spectra of four groups of starch samples, control, 10, 20 and 30 kGy irradiated, were measured. By the preliminary analysis, it was revealed that 1 702 and 2 100 nm were effective in predicting the irradiation dose on starch. On the other hand, samples were divided into calibration and validation set. The multi-regression analysis of the calibration set was carried out with adopting 1702 or 2100nm as the first wavelength, and the resulting calibration curves were named calibration A and B. Using these calibration curves, the irradiation dose of the validation set was predicted. Although the accuracy of the prediction was poor, it seemed that the non-irradiated and the irradiated samples could be discriminated by an appropriate borderline. Therefore, a new irradiation index was defined as non-irradiated = 0 and irradiated = 1. In the same way as the case of four groups, calibration C and D, in addition, calibration E, which using 1702 nm only, were developed and the irradiation index of the validation set was predicted. Although there were a few samples that could not be accurately predicted with calibration C and D, there was only one wrong discrimination with calibration E and its prediction accuracy was 96.2%