SAFE FOODS GETS REGULATORY CLEARANCE FOR USE OF CECURE IN CANADIAN FACILITIES USING AIR-CHILLING

Safe Foods Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer, Curtis Coleman, announced today that the company has received a letter of no objection from Health Canada to begin treating Canadian poultry products with the company’s Cecure^®-brand food safety technology in processing facilities that employ air-chilling.  Air-chilling is the process by which poultry broilers are chilled with a refrigerated air blast in chill rooms.  This process is used after slaughter in order to retard the growth of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms in the product. In the U.S., immersion chilling is currently the most popular method used, although U.S. processors are considering air chilling as a viable option due to European Union trade restrictions on immersion chilled poultry. While both methods reduce carcass bacteria counts, neither method is considered currently to be more viable than the other.

Safe Foods received its first regulatory approval from Health Canada on March 23, 2007, allowing the company to enter the Canadian market with its patented antimicrobial.  The company’s Cecure antimicrobial has demonstrated extraordinary efficacy against food-borne pathogens, including Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria, and Campylobacter.  Cetylpyridinium chloride, the active ingredient in Cecure, has been safely consumed for more than 55 years and is now in use in more than a dozen over-the-counter oral hygiene products.

“This additional approval by Health Canada makes this premier food safety technology feasible for all Canadian poultry processors,” Coleman said.  “Canadian poultry processors have been contacting Safe Foods for several years about the availability of Cecure in Canada,” he said. “We can now provide what they’ve been requesting.””

The FDA and USDA approved Cecure as a processing aid for the control of pathogens on raw poultry products in the U.S. in 2004.  The Company also obtained registration for Cecure in Russia at the end of 2005 and in South Africa in October 2006.  “We’re experiencing a lot of market pull for our food safety technologies from more than a dozen countries around the world,” Coleman said. He added that the company’s international division is currently advancing the development of partnerships in the Middle East, S. Africa, Russia, the European Union, and in Central and South America.

Cecure, the company’s premier food safety technology, is being widely used by U. S. poultry processors to control food-borne pathogens such as Salmonella and E. coli.  The Center for Disease Control estimates that food-borne pathogens account for approximately 5,000 deaths and an estimated 76 million illnesses annually in the U.S.

About Safe Foods

Safe Foods Corporation is an Arkansas-based food safety company with corporate offices in North Little Rock and microbiology, chemistry, and engineering laboratories in Rogers, AR.  Founded in January 1999, the company specializes in the development and commercialization of food safety technologies, which it makes available to food producers and processors in the U. S. and other countries.

The first of multiple patents for Safe Foods’ premier food safety technology, Cecure^®, was granted in 1994 to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), and in June 1999, Safe Foods acquired exclusive worldwide rights under the patents from UAMS.

Safe Foods also distributes its proprietary advanced disinfection technology, FreshLight^®, for a variety of food safety applications in the U.S. and Canada.

For more information, please visit the company’s web sites at www.SafeFoods.net or www.Cecure.com.

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