Suppliers BOC and RGF Envir-onmental Group of West Palm Beach, Florida, have formed a strategic alliance to market ozone-based applications for treating e-coli, listeria, salmonella and other microbes.
Dennis Smithyman, BOC's vice president of global food markets, says the alliance got a boost a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruling in June that allows ozone for use as an anti-microbial agent in direct contact with food.