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Food Banks Now Utilizing NASA Food Safety Air Sanitation!

September 25, 2009

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Jimmy Lee
VP Sales & Marketing
Phone: 678-488-5847
E-mail: jlee@KesScience.com    

(ATLANTA) - Sept. 16, 2009 – KES Science & Technology, Inc. (KES), a leading global provider and innovator of postharvest preservation technology, announces Food Banks are now utilizing the NASA-developed AiroCide PPT Food Safety air sanitation technology. Because maximizing perishable shelf life is such an important need for Food Banks, the chemical-free (no ozone) AiroCide system is the right solution for this most critical challenge.

A Food Bank is a non-profit organization that distributes donated product through a network of partner agencies and emergency feeding programs.  The donated product comes from a variety of sources, including: farmers, retailers, manufacturers and food processing companies. Food Banks and their partner agencies provide immediate hunger relief to individuals and families who are unable to afford food and do not receive adequate government financial assistance.

While keeping perishables fresh is important to all food suppliers, the extra time in Food Banks creates a unique challenge.  It is especially critical for Food Banks to ensure their donated food remains in the freshest, most nutritious state and has the longest shelf-life expansion as possible. The solution is AiroCide PPT. This NASA developed Air Sanitation technology will purify the air of airborne pathogens like mold, bacteria and even the swine flu virus without using ozone. It also eliminates VOC's like ethylene gas.

Bill McKnight, director of operations at Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, said, “Visitors of the Regional Food Bank were bewildered when they noticed a difference in the odor in our coolers!” After cleaning the coolers and evaporators, and installing the AiroCide PPT unit, McKnight noticed a reduction in the odors and musky smell from the coolers. He said they no longer have any concerns about mold or fungi and he would definitely recommend the AiroCide PPT to other Food Banks.

The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma is a private, 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization that acts as a link through which the food industry and community may donate food and other goods. The products are then distributed to nearly 700 schools and charitable feeding programs in 53 central and western Oklahoma counties. In the last fiscal year, the Food Bank distributed 28.5 million pounds of food and product to help the charitable community effectively feed people in need. Since its inception in 1980, the Food Bank has distributed more than 321 million pounds of food to feed Oklahoma’s hungry.  

For more information, contact Bill at 405.600.3126 or bmcknight@regionalfoodbank.org.  For more information about the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, visit www.regionalfoodbank.org.                 

The AiroCide technology is not a filtration system. The patented technology, integrated with Photocatalytic Oxidation (PCO), works in unison to destroy harmful airborne microbes and dismantle volatile organic compounds (VOC), like ethylene gas. Clinical studies show a 99% plus kill rate for microbials and removal of VOC’s. The AiroCide technology is a FDA listed class II medical device that is also used the medical health care industry. AiroCide is energy efficient, as it was originally designed for the NASA space station program to successfully conduct astroculture experiments that required air free of mold spores and ethylene gas.    

AiroCide PPT is manufactured and distributed by Atlanta, GA. based KES Science and Technology, Inc.  KES has supplied the grocery and other food industries with perishable preservation technologies for more than 20 years. For more information please visit www.KesScience.com or www.airocide.com or contact Jimmy Lee at jlee@KesScience.com