Fifty cases of Salmonella Litchfield are raising concern across the United States and Canada and have forced Dole and several other major cantaloupe distributors to recall products. The infected cantaloupe was exported from Agropecuaria Montelibano a Honduran company. The FDA reported a warning on March 22 initiating these recalls.
By utilizing technology from Proton Laboratories, these type of outbreaks could become a thing of the past, ultimately saving companies money from having to recall their products. News like this - as bad as it is - may be will help PLBI make a very attractive sales case as they begin to bring their product to market.
Here is some commentary straight from the corporate profile housed on the PLBI website. It gives a bit more information on how the company’s technology could help out in the situation mentioned above.
“Today, there are frequent instances in which bacteria have caused massive and costly recalls to industry based upon bacterial strains such as E.coli, Salmonella and Lysteria. In the hospital environments, numerous situations of MRSA or Staph infections have caused ongoing concerns to the safety and welfare of hospital patients and caregivers.
Functional Electrolyzed Water provides a highly-efficacious medium to control and eradicate these concerns, at a minimal cost, while creating economic dividends resulting from the areas of microbial safety, potentially lower health care costs and insurance premiums. The reassurance in the ability of maintaining the economic viability of an organization or institution from reliable and efficacious, microbe-free environments and products cannot be underestimated.”
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BACTERIAL
STRAIN |
BACTERIAL
LOAD |
Contact Time
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||
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10 Seconds
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60 Seconds
|
300 Seconds
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||
| P. aeruginosa |
6.1×107
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<100
|
<100
|
<100
|
| E.coli O157:H7 |
3.1×107
|
<100
|
<100
|
<100
|
| S.sonnei |
1.7×106
|
<100
|
<100
|
<100
|
| S.enteridis |
1.7×108
|
<100
|
<100
|
<100
|
| V.parahaemoluticus |
8.3×107
|
<100
|
<100
|
<100
|
| MRSA |
1.7×106
|
<100
|
<100
|
<100
|
| S.pyogenes |
3.2×107
|
<100
|
<100
|
<100
|
| B.subtilis |
4.0×107
|
not tested
|
2.6×103
|
<100
|
| C.botulinum |
8.1×106
|
2.6×103
|
<100
|
<100
|
“The benefits of Functional Electrolyzed Water are in its high rate of efficacy, safety to the worker and environment, non-ability of microbes to develop an immunity against its kill factor and cost efficiency. It promotes a new paradigm in our thinking for a wide array of industrial and medical challenges. Proton Laboratories also possesses a repertoire of proprietary processes and products, formulated with Functional Electrolyzed Water, which deliver exponentially-empowered efficacies of solutions needed in the maintenance of health and wellness.”



The question is not whether or not the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank will cut its benchmark lending rate today, but if in fact the cut will have any impact on our wounded economy.
Whether the cut is .25 or .75 points – either of which would bring the rate to an all-time low, economists fear that the benefits simply won’t trickle down the consumer. Recent rate cuts have done nothing to boost the consumer credit market because given current economic conditions, the banks that aren’t going under find that issuing consumer loans at anything else than a premium is far too risky.
A great example of this is the current market for auto loans. Typically influenced by the prime rate, which was roughly 4%, Monday, the interest for a 48-month new car loan is 6.8%.
With Americans now hoarding their money and growing increasingly content with simply not losing their hard-earned greenbacks, the Fed may need to expend some of its “extra ammunition” in addition to its imminent rate cut to get consumers to start spending again.
So, what happens when the rate hits zero and its back to the drawing board for Big Ben and his crew? Here’s a great report written by Ben Bernanke himself on potential strategies for monetary policy when the key rate hits zero.


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