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Purfresh Offers New Intelligent, Highly-Scalable Cold Storage Solution to Enhance Food Quality, Yield and Safety.


New Cold Storage Application Delivers Plug-and-Play Design, Web-Based Monitoring, Alerts and Reporting for Food Safety, Freshness and Audit Capabilities

LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Purfresh, formerly known as Novazone, Inc., a leading provider of clean solutions for food and water, today announced the launch of its Purfresh-Cold Storage product line. This latest evolution of the company's patented technology assures an unprecedented level of food quality and safety in cold storage rooms by combining a scalable, plug-and-play ozone-based solution specifically tailored for cold storage environments along with Purfresh's recently announced Intellipur, a powerful information management package that includes environmental sensing, web-based monitoring, alerting, data reporting and analysis along with remote control and diagnostics.

"Whether for days or months, most of the world's food is stored," said David Cope, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Purfresh, Inc. "While in storage, these fresh foods are vulnerable to losses due to decay and over-ripening along with an increased risk from food borne pathogens. These inefficiencies hurt the entire market from grower to consumer. Our new Purfresh-Cold Storage product line is the industry's first truly intelligent system that can be easily implemented into existing facilities to reduce decay, control ripening ripening

said of meat. See curing.
, enhance food safety and provide the documentation for process improvement and data management."

Purfresh's patented line of distributed ozone solutions deliver controlled concentrations of ozone that kill and prevent the growth of microorganisms, such as molds, yeasts and bacteria, eliminates ethylene to control ripening for long storage and shelf life and provide an overall enhancement of food safety practices. Made by electrifying e·lec·tri·fy  
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 the natural oxygen in the air, ozone does its work and then quickly degrades back to pure oxygen. All of the treatments Purfresh provides are approved by the EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid.

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eicosapentaenoic acid


EPA,
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, certified organic and may be used to reduce or eliminate many traditional, harmful chemicals.

Purfresh-Cold Storage is more compact than previous versions and adds Intellipur's data capabilities along with features that enable easy scaling for any size storage facility. The system incorporates its own integrated air preparation, ozone generation and distribution functions, as well as local, closed-loop control for safety purposes. In addition, it uses a wireless network to communicate to Intellipur's monitoring, remote control, data reporting and reporting features to improve system efficacy and efficiency.

"At Auvil Fruit Company, we pride ourselves on the high quality and excellent taste of our products, and on our environmentally safe growing practices," said Walt Hough n. 1. Same as Hock, a joint.
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, plant operations manager at Auvil Fruit Company in Washington State. "The Purfresh-Cold Storage and Intellipur platforms allow us to protect our produce and deliver the high quality product our customers have come to expect from us."

About Purfresh

With more than 300 customers in 22 countries, Purfresh is a leader in clean solutions for food and water. Its chemical-free, ozone-based family of products has been approved by the FDA FDA
abbr.
Food and Drug Administration


FDA,
n.pr See Food and Drug Administration.

FDA,
n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration.
, EPA and USDA USDA,
n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture.
 to kill deadly, food-borne pathogens such as E. coli E. coli: see Escherichia coli.
E. coli
 in full Escherichia coli

Species of bacterium that inhabits the stomach and intestines. E. coli can be transmitted by water, milk, food, or flies and other insects.
 and Salmonella, while remaining 100 percent organic; its water solutions use the safest and most natural purification and disinfection disinfection,
n the process of destroying pathogenic organisms or rendering them inert.

disinfection, full oral cavity,
n a procedure used to reduce active periodontal disease, usually completed within a certain short time frame.
 agent for both bottled water and pharmaceutical applications. Purfresh's patented technologies preserve and protect the world's food and water supply throughout the pre-harvest and post-harvest packaging, transport and cold storage processes. Its cutting-edge, thin-film sunshield, made from harmless calcium carbonate calcium carbonate, CaCO3, white chemical compound that is the most common nonsiliceous mineral. It occurs in two crystal forms: calcite, which is hexagonal, and aragonite, which is rhombohedral.  crystals, reduces sunburn sunburn, inflammation of the skin caused by actinic rays from the sun or artificial sources. Moderate exposure to ultraviolet radiation is followed by a red blush, but severe exposure may result in blisters, pain, and constitutional symptoms.  damage and product losses for growers, resulting in better quality product and increased returns. Industry leaders such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Sunkist, Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Safeway, Sun Pacific, Orchard View Farms, Paramount Farms, Wilson Batiz, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals rely on Purfresh for product purity. For more information, visit www.Purfresh.com.
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