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PURE Bioscience's technology praised by food safety professor

Last updated: 09:18 20 Nov 2015 EST, First published: 04:18 20 Nov 2015 EST

Listeria
The SDC technology tackles listeria, salmonella, e. coli and other food bugs

Disinfectant specialist PURE Bioscience (OTCMKTS:PURE) said its antimicrobial technology was praised in a speech this week by food safety specialist Dr James Marsden.

The professor of Food Safety and Security at Kansas State University was speaking at the Food Safety Consortium in Chicago, a leading summit meeting of Food Safety and Quality Assurance industry experts and government officials.

Dr Marsden discussed the efficacy and safety of PURE's patented silver dihydrogen citrate (SDC) antimicrobial technology in a speech on controlling listeria in food processing facilities.

“SDC’s residual kill properties provide continuous decontamination and control, which is especially important on floors, in drains and other harborage points where listeria lives in every plant. This clearly distinguishes SDC from other chemistries in use today, and is the most important aspect of an effective listeria control program,” Dr Marsden asserted.

Hank Lambert, PURE's chief executive officer, expressed his pride at the company's food safety solution being highlighted at such an influential industry event.

“Not only is SDC a superior solution for listeria elimination, as discussed at the conference, but application of SDC has also achieved dramatic reductions in Salmonella, E. coli and Norovirus,” Lambert said.

“We look forward to greatly expanding SDC’s reach and ability to mitigate food-borne illness when we receive FDA [Food 7 Drug Administration] approvals for use of PURE Control in direct food contact applications. The FCN (food contact notification) for raw poultry processing is anticipated later in December, and the FCN for fresh produce processing is anticipated in January,” Lambert revealed.

“With subsequent USDA approval for raw poultry processing, we look forward to commercializing PURE Control into these combined $650 million markets by the end of calendar Q1 2016, and executing our plan to capture a significant share of these growing markets,” concluded Lambert.

The US$41mln-valued company has seen its shares double this year.

The next price catalyst for the company's shares could be on December 2, when CEO Lambert presents at the LD Micro Conference in San Diego on the progress of the regulatory approvals mentioned above, and the company's dual-path strategy.

The conference is sponsored by LD Micro, an investment newsletter focused on finding undervalued companies.
 

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