Medizone International’s disinfection technology, AsepticSure, has won an esteemed international award for innovation at a competition held at the World Health Organization’s first International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC) in Geneva, Switzerland. It was one of only three (out of fifty-five entered) research projects in the competition to receive an “Innovation Award of Excellence”.
Queen’s University Professor Dick Zoutman (pictured) presented the research findings previously revealed in a paper that he and Medizone International’s President, Dr Michael Shannon, had published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
The research paper demonstrated the superior anti-microbial efficacy of Medizone’s AsepticSure™ disinfection technology; a system that was successfully beta-tested last year at Kingston’s Hotel Dieu Hospital.
“AsepticSure received high marks on all five evaluative criteria” said Dr Shannon. “It was considered transformative, impactful, pioneering in its scope, strategic, sustainable with an expected long-term positive impact — and Adaptable in that it could be applied to many different settings within the health care system.”
He added that “Independent endorsement at the World Health Organization level confirms what we have believed from the beginning — AsepticSure is in a league by itself in the area of biological decontamination.”
Medizone’s Chief Executive Officer, Edwin Marshall, stated that the peer-reviewed publication in the American Journal of Infection Control, a glowing recognition posted by the journal Canada NOW, and now this WHO-associated international award for innovation, means that the eventual availability of AsepticSure will “offer hospitals and critical care facility operators an unprecedented opportunity to address the task of lowering infection rates within their facilities.”
Medizone International, Inc. – with dedicated laboratories located in Queen’s University’s Innovation Park – is now finalizing production development of its modular design AsepticSure™ Decontamination Systems. Decontamination to the sterilization industry standard of > 6 log will be achievable for hospitals, long term care facilities, food processing plants, clean room manufacturing facilities, schools and other critical infrastructure. A government variant is also being developed for bio-terrorism counter measures including building remediation.
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Photo (Dick Zoutman): Queen’s University