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PURE Bioscience Provides Update: Expanding Use of PURE Control® Antimicrobial in Produce Processing; Expanding Use of PURE® Hard Surface Disinfectant
PURE Bioscience Provides Update: Expanding Use of PURE Control® Antimicrobial in Produce Processing; Expanding Use of PURE® Hard Surface Disinfectant.
About this update from Pure Bioscience
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n PURE Bioscience, Inc. (OTCQB: \n PURE), creator of the patented non-toxic silver dihydrogen citrate (SDC) \n antimicrobial, provided an update on the expanded use of FDA \n approved PURE Control® antimicrobial for application directly onto \n produce during processing and the expanded use of PURE Hard Surface \n disinfectant.\n \n \n PURE Control - Produce Update\n \n \n The first customer for PURE Control, Taylor Farms, is North America’s \n largest supplier of salads, fresh-cut vegetables and healthy fresh \n foods. It serves leading customers in the foodservice, retail produce, \n and retail deli segments of the fresh business.\n \n \n \n In the fall of 2017, Taylor Farms began a pilot test applying PURE \n Control as an added intervention step on one processing line in its \n Salinas, CA, plant to eliminate pathogens causing foodborne illness, \n including E. coli, Listeria, and Salmonella.\n \n \n The processor conducted extensive use validation studies (including \n efficacy and organoleptic), on the way to evaluating the use of PURE \n Control in its US processing plant network.\n \n \n Processors typically seek a 1 log reduction* in pathogens from an \n intervention or processing aid. Testing at produce processors, \n including Taylor Farms, consistently exceeded expectations, indicating \n pathogen reductions averaging 3 logs – or 99.9%.\n \n \n Earlier this month, Taylor Farms expanded its use of PURE Control to a \n second line in the first plant, initiated installation on multiple \n lines in a second plant in Salinas, CA, and developed plans to expand \n to a third plant in calendar Q2. These plants supply produce to \n leading foodservice chains as well as to retailers.\n \n \n \n *Log reduction is a mathematical term used to show the relative \n number of live microbes eliminated from a surface by disinfecting or \n cleaning. A 2-Log reduction can be best illustrated as having two zeros, \n meaning the number of germs is 100 times smaller.\n \n \n A growing number of produce processors continue to be in various stages \n of testing PURE Control, and testing results to date have been positive. \n These processors supply fresh and/or frozen produce. The sales cycle for \n PURE Control for each customer will continue to involve varying amounts \n of validation and optimization testing by those ...