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Rinsing of Fresh Food Produce with Ozone.

Ozone Services (OSI) provides ozone-enriched water systems for fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry and fish cleaning and processing. Our systems can be easily integrated into flume, cascade, or drench type operations.
OSI systems can be integrated into both ozone prewash and ozone wash sections.
As an FDA approved direct food contact, antimicrobial agent, ozone can be dissolved into water and used for direct contact on fruits and vegetables, raw and ready-to-eat meat and poultry, fish and commercial eggs.
The benefits of ozone-enriched water far outweigh chemical-enriched water traditionally used in the 20th century.
Ozone-enriched water efficacy testing performed by the National Sanitation Foundation (under AOAC Methodology), shows that, ozone dissolved in water can provide a 6 log reduction in as low as 30 seconds (depending on the micro-organism).
Ozone-enriched water leaves no chemical residue on your product and actually assists in removing pre-wash residues in some products.

Applications
OSI systems can be easily integrated into most existing conveyor lines and flumes. Our systems provide low pressure spray, cascade, drench or flume designs for end-user fabrication to integrate into existing wash lines. OSI can also provide plumbing designs for recycling or flow-through systems to fit
into most wash lines. Ozone is used in both prewash (to disinfect water) and wash (to disinfect product) sections of your process.

Benefits

• Longer shelf life
• Improved product colour and appearance
• Improved taste
• Reduced product spoilage

(US Government Regulatory Status FDA/CFSAN – June 26, 2001 – Final Rule published in Federal Register (21 CFR Part 173, Docket No. 00F-1482) ”The FDA amends the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of ozone in gaseous and aqueous phase as an anti-microbial agent on food, including meat and poultry.”)

USDA/FSIS
The use of ozone on raw and ready-to-eat meat and poultry products just prior to packaging is acceptable. There are no special labelling requirements in regard to treated product.