Fred Smith Elected to Safe Foods Board of Directors

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR (August 7, 2003) Safe Foods Corporation announced today the election of Mr. Fred Smith of Las Vegas, NV, to its Board of Directors. Smith is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, a director of ALLTEL Corporation, Managing General Partner of Peno Bottom Partners, and retired CEO of Donrey Media Group.

"Fred Smith is an outstanding addition to Safe Foods' Board. He represents the broad experience, quality, and integrity that we want to characterize our company," said Carl S. Rosenbaum, Safe Foods' Chairman. Smith was elected to Safe Foods’ Board at the Company’s annual shareholders meeting in Little Rock on August 7. Also re-elected to the Board were Rosenbaum, Anthony Rampley of Jonesboro, AR, President and CEO of Arkansas Glass Container Corporation; Curtis Coleman of Little Rock, President and CEO of Safe Foods; John Steuri of Little Rock, retired Chairman and CEO of ALLTEL Information Services, Inc.; Judge Dan Felton III of Marianna, AR, District Court Judge; and Dr. Timothy O’Brien of Little Rock, Director of the Biomedical Biotechnology Center at UAMS.

Fred Smith (left) is welcomed by Safe Foods Chairman Carl Rosenbaum.

Safe Foods Corporation is commercializing a new food safety product discovered by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the University’s Fayetteville campus. The discovery, now known as Cecure™, has attracted the interest of food producers and processors around the world because of its effectiveness against foodborne pathogens such as E. Coli, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Listeria and its long history of safe human consumption in common over-the-counter oral hygiene products.

Scientists at UAMS and the University of Arkansas’s Poultry Science Center in Fayetteville discovered that Cecure’s active ingredient, cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC), was dramatically effective at reducing food-borne bacteria. CPC is an ingredient in several over-the-counter mouthwashes and throat lozenges. In 1999, Safe Foods Corp., through a licensing agreement with the University of Arkansas, acquired the exclusive world-wide patents rights to the food safety technology.