EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - September 03, 2008) - Innovotech (TSX VENTURE: IOT) has received a $474,786 contract over two years from the Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food (ACAAF) program of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The program is administered in Alberta through the Agriculture and Food Council. The contract will evaluate and potentially commercialize a group of naturally occurring agents for the sanitation of foods and food preparation surfaces. Innovotech has developed and patented these agents derived from natural plant pigments that are currently registered in Canada as food dyes. The combination of these pigments with certain light sources and oxygen kills microorganisms. “This novel approach to sanitation can extend the shelf life of food products and reduce food contamination, which is of benefit to both producers and consumers.” says Dr. Merle Olson, Innovotech’s Research Director.
