Elanco Food Solutions has launched CellVex–a new anti-microbial food safety product designed to lower E.coli and Salmonella pathogens in beef processing plants.
CellVex is a liquid bromine product that combines with bleach to form hypobromous acid(HOBr).1,2.Products containing bromine are considered to act against pathogens in beef processing plants and are widely used.
According to the company,CellVex remains highly stable and pH neutral(6.0-8.0),with no off-gassing potential in bleach activation,reported Cattlenetwork.com.
Elanco Food Solutions sales and technical services director Tom Nicholson said that CellVex offers the proven efficacy of a bromine antimicrobial intervention in a convenient,cost-effective liquid formulation.
"If a plant isn't using a bromine antimicrobial intervention today,it is absolutely something that should be considered,"Nicholson added.
Elanco Food Solutions--a business unit of Elanco,a division of Eli Lilly and Company,offers food safety products.
