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Central Valley company says they have invented the best thing since ice
Hanford
February 4, 2008 9:05AM
• Global Food Technologies says its iPura system ensures seafood safety
• Sells first system to Chilean salmon packer
Primar's Eduardo Kipreos and iPura plant manager, Jaime Montesinos; Global Food Technologies Inc. of Hanford says it’s come up with the best thing since ice for seafood safety.
Its “iPura” equipment uses patented proprietary organic technologies to combat food borne hazards, it says.
“Our globally patented technologies are focused on the elimination of food poisoning due to the ingestion of E.coli, salmonella, listeria, campylobacter, vibrio and other deadly hazards which too frequently contaminate food products during the farming, processing, packaging and distribution stages,” says Keith Meeks, president of GFT.
He says the iPura system is designed to be integrated into food processing facilities and operate in a “cleanroom environment."
The Hanford Company’s first customer is Primar, a Puerto Montt Chile-based salmon processing company. It says it sees the new technology as giving it a competitive edge. "We have developed a hurdle technology, a combination of scientific interventions to achieve superior efficacy by combining pressure, temperature, vacuum, UV disinfected water and an environmentally friendly organic antimicrobial solution targeted at the elimination of disease causing pathogens and other spoilage organisms in food products,” says Aaron Ormond, director of science for GFT. He says the combination of the processes yields a “lethal effect to the pathogens, is harmless to consumers, with no changes to the organoleptics or nutritional value of the product."
Source: Reprint from http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/
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