by Graeme Luey | Sep 19, 2020 | News
Prof. Keith Warriner is a food scientist, but when he heard about the shortage of N95 masks for front-line health-care workers battling COVID-19, he saw an opportunity to contribute. Warriner and several collaborators have adapted technology that uses UV light,...
by Graeme Luey | Sep 19, 2020 | News
As a startup that has been recognized for its innovation in food safety, Clean Works quickly recognized its unique position to help fight COVID-19 by using its produce disinfection technology to disinfect critically-needed masks and other personal protective equipment...
by Graeme Luey | Sep 19, 2020 | News
Grundfos, Oakville, Ont., has partnered with Clean Works Medical, a start-up in food sanitation, to help fight the spread of COVID-19 by using Clean Works Medical disinfection technology to disinfect N95 masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) for hospitals and...
by Graeme Luey | Sep 18, 2020 | News
Ottawa’s Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre is looking to apply the same technology that has been licensed for the reprocessing of N95 respirators, on the type of procedural masks more widely used in long-term care homes. It’s launching a research study...
by Graeme Luey | Sep 18, 2020 | News
‘It is kind of a simple story about a guy … who had a farm selling candy apples, ran into a problem and fixed it … with something that also happened to work on viruses’ Picture an apple, either an Empire or Crispin, grown in Ontario, coated in...
by Graeme Luey | Sep 18, 2020 | News
Picture an apple, either an Empire or Crispin, grown in Ontario, coated in caramel and chocolate and rolled in peanuts and sold at retail as a gourmet delight, particularly around Christmas and Easter, in stores across North America. Now picture a second apple, of...
