FARM AND RANCH
Micro-organic contamination is the leading cause of death and suffering in the world. What if there were a safe and effective way to address this broad-spectrum issue without relying on toxic chemical alternatives in farm and ranch?
Micro-organic contamination is the leading cause of death and suffering in the world. What if there were a safe and effective way to address this broad-spectrum issue without relying on toxic chemical alternatives in farm and ranch?
Use chlorine dioxide ClO₂ for horticulture and agriculture applications. Kill or suppress harmful microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, or fungi; by oxidizing and dissolving the cell walls of harmful organelles that harbor disease-causing pathogens.
Agricultural products are essential for everyday living, and every living thing. We all eat grains, vegetables, fruits, and livestock. Our houses are built from lumber. We make our clothes from cotton, and we manufacture automobiles with rubber tires. Using FDA-registered ClO2 is a safe and effective way to clean crops, animals, and people to inactivate Avian Influenza A and other animal viruses listed on product labels at Dairy, Poultry, Swine, Turkey, Animal Farms, Hatcheries, Veterinary Practices, and others.
Producing poultry and eggs require frequent sanitizing of surfaces, including incubation, water filtration, and hand sanitizer dip. Prewash egg rooms, incubators, trays, and loading platforms; preclean floors in rooms where eggs are handled and mop floors where chicks are handled. Virucide effective against influenza, canine parvovirus, NDV, PRRS and Pseudorabies.
A chlorine dioxide disinfection of cow beds or other restricted areas on farms can fundamentally solve heavy stink, pesky moths, and fly infestations. This will help to reduce the incidence of disease and increase the safety of raw milk and other commodities. Chlorine dioxide has a significant economic and social benefit, in addition to sterilization.
Concentration 3 ppm – kills E.coli, Avian influenza, and Enterococcus faecium, etc
Concentration 15 ppm – inactivate Avian Influenza A and other pathogens
Concentration 50 ppm – dip, thaw, transport, wash, rinse, spray or store
Concentration 70 ppm – sanitize and deodorize with no rinse required
Chlorine dioxide is a powerful antimicrobial that destroys bacteria, viruses, parasites, and has a range of uses to disinfect and deodorize agricultural and horticultural areas. Imagine a hard to reach corner of a bench that is sub-irrigated, with crop debris, algae, and insects like shore flies or fungus gnats. Chilled ClO2 water is used as an initial surface sanitizer to rinse soil and debris off produce, and other crops. For freshly harvested foods that require disinfection or sanitizing spray or pass fresh harvested commodities through a chlorine dioxide water network or rinse them for surface sanitation. After it has been cleaned, graded, ClO2 contributes to a longer shelf life up to three times when sent to a packing house or stored for sale.
Use in post-harvest handling to treat fruits, vegetables, and nuts directly during storage, transport, and food preparation applications. An advantage of chlorine dioxide is no that there is no need for a post-treatment rinse on the product with water to remove any residual chemical.
Concentration 3 ppm – root, tuber, bulb, legume, fruiting and leafy
Concentration 15 ppm – inactivate Avian Influenza A and other pathogens
Concentration 50 ppm – dip, transport, wash, rinse, spray or store
Use chlorine dioxide to kill microorganisms, protect soil microbiomes, eliminate greenhouse pathogens and remove biofilms. This is difficult for most other products because biofilm maintains structural and functional integrity. They are a three-dimensional structure that represents a community for microorganisms and have been metaphorically called ‘cities of microbes’. Chlorine dioxide is EPA approved to sanitize and disinfect safely, and it can be used continuously in areas that are susceptible to disease, and without causing plant toxicities.
Plant and maintain trees, shrubs, vines, & woody perennials
Production and marketing of floral and ornamental crops
Production, marketing, and maintenance of landscape plants
Includes the production and marketing of vegetables and produce
Production and marketing of fruit trees
Production and marketing of grapes
All aspects of wine production and winemaking
Maintaining the quality of and preventing spoilage of horticulture
Concentration 0.20 ppm
Concentration 0.25 ppm
Concentration 10 ppm
Concentration 500 ppm – Avoid cross contamination with soaking and spraying
Concentration 1,000 ppm – decontaminate contaminated materials or debris
Concentration 0.8 ppm – Avoid cross-contamination with soaking and spraying
Concentration – effective in conditions where humidity and moisture are present
Concentration 1,000 ppm – decontaminate contaminated materials or debris
The presence of Aspergillus in cannabis has been successfully treated with chlorine dioxide gas. Aspergillus refers to a group of filamentous fungi (or common molds) which are asexual and reproduce by producing conidia, or asexual spores. These molds can then spread into different environments, and germinate and grow. Seeds can be disinfected by soaking in a chlorine dioxide water bath, or within a chamber exposed to chlorine dioxide gas.
Vapor fogging empty grow rooms between crops is the optimal way to decontaminate every surface, crack, or crevice, significantly reducing the risk of cannabis crops “catching” any new mold spores. If mold is present during drying or storing apply chlorine dioxide by vapor fog. The treated cannabis can be kept as buds, or extracted.
Chlorine Dioxide reduces bacteria in solutions. This extends shelf life by 7 to 77% for Chrysanthemums, Gypsophila, Snapdragons, Roses Gerberas, Stock, Vilassar flowers. Most biocides cannot penetrate a biofilm and can only kill the surface. Chlorine dioxide perforates and kills biofilm layers and colonized attachment sites on soft and hard surfaces. Its oxidizing power allows fungi, slime, and algae to be disinfected and removed from systems, tanks, and transfer lines.
Concentration 0.8ppm – Control and suppress bacteria and algae
Heavy Concentration 200 ppm – sanitize surfaces including stainless steel, water, etc.
Apply chlorine dioxide to infectious or contamination related surfaces to disinfect and kill microorganisms such as fungi or mold at the source.
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Put a few drops of concentrate and a few drops of activator into a glass or plastic container
Set aside for one minute and wait for the solution to turn an amber, yellow color.
Add clean water to fill the rest of the container and you’re ready to sanitize
Find a surface you want to clean and use it just as you would a normal cleaner.
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https://www.americanmushroom.org/clientuploads/IPM/Disenfectants/GC30-Technical-Bulletin.pdf. Accessed 11 Mar. 2022.
http://www.ces.uoguelph.ca/water/PATHOGEN/ChlorineDioxide.pdf. Accessed 7 Feb. 2021.