Fremont, Calif. —Nov. 1, 2010—Purfresh, a provider of clean technologies that purify, protect, and preserve our food and water, today announced that leading growers in the Pacific Northwest have implemented Purfresh® Cold Storage and Purfresh Wash systems to reduce decay, control ripening and enhance food safety of apples. The success these growers—Auvil Fruit Company, Cowiche Growers, and Gebbers Farms—have experienced utilizing Purfresh’s intelligent atmosphere and disinfectant solutions demonstrate how Purfresh’s science-based ozone technologies offer superior benefits to maintain quality and improve shelf life.
“Equipping our storage facilities with the Purfresh Cold Storage system and integrated Intellipur software analytics gives us peace of mind and allows us to focus more on critical business issues rather than having to constantly check on the conditions of our refrigerated storage rooms,” said Mr. Richard Thomason, Gebbers Farms. “Installing the Purfresh technologies has been instrumental to delivering high-quality apples to our customers, and as a result of the success we’ve experienced, we recently added additional Purfresh systems to our operations.”
Specifically engineered for refrigerated storage environments, the Purfresh Cold Storage technology ensures an unprecedented level of food safety and quality by combining a scalable, plug-and-play ozone-based solution with Purfresh Intellipur® online analytics—a powerful information service that includes environmental sensing, web-based monitoring, alerting, data reporting, and analysis along with remote control and diagnostics. Purfresh Wash provides a safe and effective produce disinfection solution, eliminating the need for harsh chemicals. These new state-of-the-art technologies allow Purfresh customers to effectively regulate the ripening process and control decay while maintaining overall fruit quality.
“Our customers pride themselves on consistently delivering high-quality, excellent tasting fresh produce to their buyers,” said Mr. David Bouchard, general manager, post-harvest and transport solutions for Purfresh. “Using Purfresh technologies to purify and preserve their conventional and organic fruit, they are able to maintain post-harvest freshness and meet the quality standards of their buyers without the use of undesirable chemicals.”
Earlier this year, Purfresh announced research results which demonstrated that controlled supplementation of ozone in cold storage conditions was able to kill and control the spread of important foodborne pathogens such as Salmonella, by more than 99.997%, Listeria monocytogenes, by more than 99.999%, and E. coli O157:H7, by as much as 99.9%. Details of this research are available on the Purfresh website.
Source: Purfresh Inc.
