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Ozone
Ozone Timeline
1857 - Werner von Siemens (Germany) invents an ozone generator.
1999 - USDA, FDA, and the CDC-Atlanta develop the U.S. Egg Safety Action Plan.
It requires outbreaks of Salmonellosis from shell eggs be reduced 50% by 2005,
and eliminated by 2010.
http://www.foodsafety.gov/~fsg/ceggs.html
2001 - On June 26, FDA allows ozone as an antimicrobial on food, including
meat and poultry. OARDC research weighs heavily in the FDA approval.
Approximately 25% of the EPRI petition is based on research from Ohio State
University.
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/FCF173.html
2001 - September 11. National interests in food safety shift dramatically to
a national mandate in food security.
2002 - June 24 - OSURF issues an exclusive license to a new company, EggTech
Ltd., that seeks commercialization of OSU’s ozone technology. EggTech invests
$75,000 directly in the project.
2004 - On September 30 EggTech Ltd. partners meet at Ohio State Food Science &
Technology to celebrate the delivery of the nation’s first prototype ozone egg
technology machine. This custom-manufactured device is an essential step in
scale-up. Fresh omelettes are served.
2004 - On October 5, Patent number US 6,800,315 B2 is issued to AE Yousef and
Luis A. Rodriguez-Romo. It is a method for decontaminating whole eggs with
ozone. Another patent application by the same team was also submitted.
2005 - FSIS cooperative agreement advances ozone egg technology to market
deployment.
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