“…It is important to note that acute radiation syndrome (followed by death) can be induced in humans at a dose of around 5 Gy (Cucinotta and Durante, 2006;Hellweg and Baumstark-Khan, 2007). Because UV-C greatly damages cells and biomolecules, monochromatic UV-C radiation (254 nm) is commonly used on Earth for food sterilization, in hospital surface disinfection (Corrêa et al, 2017;Santos and de Castro, 2021), or in microbiology laboratories, for instance, in safety cabinets where the UV lamp is used for around 15 min, reaching a UV dose of approximately 2000 J/m 2 (Begum et al, 2009). Also Xrays, gamma rays and electron-beam (e-beam) radiation have been extensively used in sterilization procedures of medical devices, pharmaceuticals and food (Harrell et al, 2018;Hasanain et al, 2014;Moosekian et al, 2012;Munir and Federighi, 2020;Ravindran and Jaiswal, 2019).…”