January 6, 2025
Each year, foodborne illnesses strike 600 million people worldwide and claim 420,000 lives, according to the World Health Organization. Behind these statistics are real families whose lives were interrupted by hospital visits, and children — among are the most vulnerable to food-borne illnesses — who became ill after meals that should have been safe to eat.
Our FDA-Approved Solutions
We've developed three USDA and FDA-approved antimicrobial products, designed for pathogens impacting specific proteins that anchor countless family meals:
- BoviBrom® provides high efficacy at low dosage rates to help protect against Salmonella and E. coli in beef. When deployed and compared to other chemistries, BoviBrom provides both enhanced worker safety against harmful odors and end-consumer protection against pathogens and with minimized impacts of the organoleptic profile, which dictates the odor, taste, texture, and shelf-life of premium cuts of beef.
- AviBrom® helps reduce harmful pathogens from raw poultry, including Campylobacter and Salmonella, using a safer, less corrosive solution in specific applications alongside other chemistries.
- PorciBrom® helps combat Salmonella and E. coli in pork as an antimicrobial that integrates well into production processes and provides a synergistic effect with other compatible chemistries used in the pork industry.
Albemarle also maintains industry leading certifications such as Halal, Kosher and the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) to serve different markets and cultures, which aligns to our core values of Care and Integrity. Our chemists and industry partners understand that protecting food requires the right chemistry applied with precision to ensure high-efficacy and protection.
We create chemistry that cares, because food safety isn’t just science: it’s personal.
Learn more about Albemarle's role in food safety.
