BioONE, A Sabre/Giuliani Company, To Demonstrate Technology Used To Decontaminate After 2001 Anthrax Attacks - Now To Be Used On Mold

KINGSBURY, N.Y., June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, June 8, 2005, BioONE, a Sabre/Giuliani Company, will demonstrate the technology used to decontaminate Capitol Hill after the 2001 anthrax attacks. The building decontamination will enable BioONE to demonstrate how much more quickly buildings can be decontaminated using the lessons learned since the anthrax attacks.

In addition, the company has turned their attention to restoring buildings contaminated with microbial matter, including mold, and will use the demonstration to show that the same technology used to decontaminate for anthrax can completely decontaminate a mold filled building. BioONE is a joint venture between former New York Mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani's company, Giuliani Partners, and Sabre Technical Services.

"This fumigation technology is safe, economical and highly effective." John Mason, President of BioONE said. Structures are tented and filled with chlorine dioxide gas, which penetrates behind wallpaper and inside wall cavities, making it the ideal solution for pervasively contaminated buildings. So far, all our testing looks positive that this remediation solution does not require removal of any building material or contents."

The building to be fumigated on June 8 is located at the intersection of Route 4 and Route 32, at 184 Burgoyne Avenue in Kingsbury. Formerly an Ames Store, it has an approximate volume of 1 million cubic feet.

Total time for this project is expected to be less than 6 days from arrival on site to demobilization. This would be the fastest medium size structure CIO2 fumigation to date.

Sabre Technical Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of BioONE, has used this fumigation technology in eleven anthrax and biological threat decontaminations, including the anthrax decontaminations at Capitol Hill, the postal service facilities in Washington DC and Trenton, New Jersey and at the former AMI building in Boca Raton, Florida. Each fumigation was successful after one application.

BioONE first demonstrated this technology for use in mold remediation in a three-story historic building in Utica, New York in November, 2004. That building's walls were black with mold. After that decontamination, independent testing showed that all mold had been killed on all interior surfaces within the building, including underneath wall paper, under heavy layers of dirt, and inside interior wall cavities.

The US Environmental Protection Agency and the New York Department of Health will attend the decontamination, along with other federal and state agencies.

About the Technology

BioONE's proprietary and patented implementation of gas-phase chlorine dioxide fumigation technology provides safe and effective decontamination with minimal disruption and no residual toxicity.

BioONE's high-capacity mobile generators can produce chlorine dioxide gas, solution or foam. Gas-phase chlorine dioxide fumigation is BioONE's primary decontamination method for biological contamination.

Chlorine dioxide (CIO2) is a gas at room temperature and, as such, is very mobile, easily reaching spores in hard-to-reach places.

CONTACT: Debbie Abrams of BioONE, a Sabre/Giuliani Company, +1-561-289-1378