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Food Safety Breakthrough: Crystallized Ozone Might Kill Cyclospora
Onza Corp.’s FreshSure technology converts volatile ozone gas into a stable, USDA-organic solid crystal matrix offering scalable sachets that achieve up to log-five pathogen reductions and extend produce shelf life by up to nine days. As recurring outbreaks of cyclospora, salmonella and E. coli continue to disrupt the fresh produce supply chain, food safety experts and growers face a persistent challenge of how to stop dangerous pathogens without relying solely on harsh chemical treatments or localized…
Food Safety Breakthrough: Crystallized Ozone Might Kill Cyclospora
Onza Corp.’s FreshSure technology converts volatile ozone gas into a stable, USDA-organic solid crystal matrix offering scalable sachets that achieve up to log-five pathogen reductions…
Onza Corp Launches FreshSure, a Solid Ozone Technology for Food Safety
Key Takeaways Denver-based AgTech startup Onza Corp has launched FreshSure™, described as the world’s first commercially available crystallized ozone sachet. The product is currently in…
A Global Food Waste Crisis: Part 2
Part 2: Contamination and Recalls Are Getting Worse. Here’s What the Data Shows. While spoilage quietly erodes food across fields and supply chains, a second…
A Global Food Waste Crisis: Part 1
Part 1: From Field to Fork — Spoilage Is Silently Stealing Our Food Supply Every year, the world produces enough food to feed every person…
Grant Awarded!
Onza Corp has been awarded a Early-Stage Capital and Retention grant from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade. Onza was one of…
2.5 Year-Old Ozone
Before now, ozone would break down from an intact state into oxygen in a matter of minutes to only a few hours, depending on the…
No Mold With My Raspberries, Please!
In a test performed in Onza’s lab, raspberries were kept in sealed bags at room temperature for 21 days. The control samples that contained only…
Foodborne Pathogens
The same test described below titled “99.8%” was repeated, but in this test the spinach was spiked with Staphylococcus Aureus, Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, and pathogenic E….
57 Days and Still Going…
At Stanford University the same Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) assay described below was performed and showed effective levels of ablation 57 days after the ozone…
Minimum Inhibitory Concentration
At Stanford University the effectiveness of Ozonate was assessed via Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) assays. Ozonate was able to consistently ablate 95% of all E….
21 Days and Going Strong!
At a third-party ISO-17025 accredited laboratory, the same test described below titled “99.8%” was repeated with Ozonate that had been aged for 21 days. Again,…
99.8%
Testing carried out in duplicate by a third-party ISO-17025 accredited food laboratory used bulk spinach obtained from a national organic retailer to inoculate with E….
Spinach & E. coli
At Stanford University the first testing of Ozonate was carried out to assess its effectiveness in preserving and extending the shelf-life of food products. A…
Crystalized Ozone!
Onza’s patent pending technology for trapping gases has proven effective by third-party testing, not only trapping gas, but extending the useful life of the trapped…
