Aqueous Ozone for Retail Applications

Providing Multiple Solutions for Supermarkets and Food Retailers

Current technology has harnessed the purification power of ozone in a highly mobile, OSHA safe, FDA approvedapplication. Mobile Ozonated Water (MOW) solutions can provide supermarket and other retail food operators a new tool for food safety and perishable spoilage reduction.

An Effective Food Safety Agent

Sanitize perishable work and display areas without using harsh chemicals. Mobile Ozonated Water Systems eliminate the need for harsh chemicals used today to sanitize perishable work and display areas. With the mobility of MOW's, you can sanitize all of your perishable departments — floral, deli, meat, produce, seafood, juice bars, etc.

A Unique Means to Enhance the Appearance and Extend the Shelf-Life of Your Perishables

Extensive testing has proven that costly perishable spoilage-reduction is now possible with MOWs. Utilizing the natural decontaminant deactivation properties of ozone, the MOW can easily apply ozonated water directly on many fruits and vegetables. Further, ozone is a strong oxidant, leaving no residue or harmful by-products, and destroys a wide spectrum of organisms. Even at low levels (less than one part per million), ozone is very effective at destroying or inhibiting microbial growth when applied directly to the product. Results of extensive testing are available. Among the products that can be treated in-store are: fruits and vegetables, shrimp and other shellfish, and floral.

An Efficient Way to Reduce Perishable Shrinkage & Enhance Gross Profit

Just one example, store controlled produce shrinkage alone has been estimated at 5% of produce sales. The following illustrates how shrink reduction means new dolloars to the bottom line.

Mobile Ozonated Water Systems Deliver Unique Benefits to the Supermarket Retailer

• Eliminates the harmful effects and odors related to cleaning and sanitizing chemicals

• Increases shelf-life of produce and other perishables like floral and shellfish

• Proven killer of E. coli, salmonella, listeria, and other viruses and pathogens

• Reduces the need for costly chemical

• Highly mobile and useable in multiple departments in the store

• Produces a true competitive advantage through food safety and fresher perishables

What does the FDA say about Ozone as a sanitation and shelf-life enhancement agent?

As a Sanitation Agent, Ozone…

As a Shelf Life Enhancement Agent…

“Treatment with ozonated water can extend the shelf life of apples, grapes, oranges, pears, raspberries and strawberries by reducing microbial populations and by oxidation of ethylene to retard ripening.”

Source: U.S. Food & Drug Administration Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition, September 30, 2001

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