Medizone International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: MZEI) Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Edwin Marshall, today outlined the company's plans moving forward for its hospital sterilization system, AsepticSure(TM). "Our laboratory expansion at Medizone's dedicated research facility located in Innovation Park at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada has now been completed. Full scale-up testing is scheduled to commence there in January, following the holidays. Our laboratory results continue to produce consistent and repeatable 6 log (99.9999%) reductions for the bacteria of concern in the hospital environment that are considered the main causative agents of hospital acquired infections (HAIs). We are now expecting to replicate those results in full scale room testing."
"On December 1, 2009 the company announced it had achieved 7.2 log kills for Bacillus subtilis, an internationally accepted surrogate for Anthrax, a kill rate that has subsequently been reconfirmed by additional testing at the company's laboratory. In combination with our accomplishments with the bacteria of concern regarding HAIs, especially achieving 6.7 log reductions with the spore former Clostridium difficile, to now be able to eradicate Bacillus subtilis has put us squarely in the bioterrorism-countermeasures arena. This is clearly a separate market for the company from the hospital sterilization sector. In this regard, we have revised our business plan since first presenting it at our shareholder meeting on August 26, 2009."