BIOIONIX

Forward-thinking food companies are adding sustainability as a new pillar to their core values. While FDA regulations have sought a sustainable farm-to-table food system, an innate pain point is using chemicals to disinfect the food, processing plant equipment and pipeline interventions in CIP, liquid, and brine treatments. These toxic chemicals have costly reoccurring expenses and are hazardous to everyone along the process.

BIOIONIX^® disrupts the food safety space with its cost-effective and sustainable disinfection solutions. Using just water and salt, the innovative electrochemical BIOIOINIX solution produces limitless amounts of non-toxic and non-corrosive disinfectant solutions at every step of food processing. Its customers, including eggs, poultry, RTE and raw meat, aquaculture, and dairy companies can efficiently achieve their sustainability goals.

“Our relentless mission is to make the world’s food and water supply safer,” says Ryan Karns, president at BIOIONIX. “We revolutionize disease control from farm to table with BIOIONIX^® systems that are FDA and USDA approved as an all-natural solution for disinfection in all stages of food manufacturing.”

Its proven, patented, and three-tier BIOIONIX technology acts as an artificial immune system for food safety. The disinfection systems range from small spray systems to systems made to handle more than 3 million gallons per day—can be used for food processing within a partner’s facility or even the ocean to treat Red Tide.

The first tier of the disinfection chamber comprises SuperOxidants^TM generated using electrolysis techniques that safely destroy DNA and RNA of pathogens.

The second tier is a non-chemical controlled concentration of hypochlorous acid (HOCl) created using slightly acidic electrolyzed water within the disinfection chamber. It is a super-safe solution with disinfecting properties that are 100 times stronger than bleach, peracetic acid, ammonia, and other harmful cleansers. Equipment in food processing plants can be sterilized through the recirculation of HOCl, killing fatal pathogens like Salmonella, E.coli, avian influenza, swine flu, Listeria monocytogenes, and COVID-19.

The chamber’s third tier is BIOSAIF24/7 —the brain of the artificial immune system. Its built-in AI software operates continuously, monitoring and alerting the BIOIONIX team to ensure the equipment has optimal disinfection, brine quality, and food safety. BIOSAIF24/7 also saves labor, downtime, and costly operator errors by tracking system performance and application integration.

Exemplifying the efficacy of BIOIONIX is a case where a cheese plant was confronting poor hygiene practices due to high APC counts. The partner could not consistently track the quality as they could act only after 72 hours of measuring pathogens in the food processors. This was due to the inconsistencies in brine disinfection caused by pasteurization and chemical processes. Implementing BIOSAIF24/7 technology helped the client with 24/7 disinfection and decreased APCs from 60,000 to 29,000 to less than 100 CFU per milliliter on a day-to-day basis. It helped the cheese plant win the world's best cheese title for that year.

Partnering with BIOIONIX also proved beneficial for a major meat processor looking for a 2 log reduction in microbes. Upon executing in-house testing with the research abilities of the University of Wisconsin, BIOIONIX inoculated Listeria monocytogenes at a magnitude around 6 to 8 log into the brine and achieved a complete reduction in less than two seconds. This phenomenal log reduction far exceeded the partner’s expectations and currently available chemical disinfecting applications.

BIOIONIX’s defining edge is assisting food businesses in meeting their sustainability targets. It helps them reuse water and reduce chemicals, improving savings from five gallons per minute up to three million gallons per day. At the heart of BIOIONIX’s continuous success is a passionate and brilliant team of engineers, food safety professionals, chemists, and animal health experts who work hand-in-hand with customers to make a difference in system design, programming, and installation. Farms, manufacturers, and retailers in the food industry looking for cleaner, safer, and more effective disinfectants can have peace of mind by partnering with BIOIONIX, a stamp of approval for sustainable product sourcing.