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Aquaculture

Aquaculture is one of the newest applications for Freebac, yet it has proven to be quite successful. Freebac has been used and tested in various aspects of aquaculture, including:

• Ice production: Used in the water to produce ice-slurry that keeps the fish cool and fresh.

• General area disinfection: Can be in production sites, well boats, fish processing.

• Water disinfection: Disinfecting and clearing up water in fish holding.

• Cleaning away fungal infections in fish and roe holding tanks

The product has also been tested to ensure that it does not harm fish in any way. It was tested against salmon at potentially harmful salmon lice treatment proce dures, with no damage to the fish. Hydrogen peroxide is already well tested for use in aquaculture, but using Freebac can expand the scope of that use and remove some of the most harmful chemicals still in use by the aquaculture industry. One ex ample is the use of Freebac to inhibit the growth of the fungus Saprolegnia spp. on salmon roe. A test was conducted at a facility in Norway, using a total of 400L of salmon roe divided into various treat ment regimes, including continuous dosing and batch treatment, as well as the standard treatment for the fungus. Where the continuous treatment regime continually showed a statistically significant differ ence compared to other treatment methods. The same type of effect has been seen in hatchery conditions with fry and fingerling, where Freebac has shown major improvement over current treatment methods.

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Freebac has undergone several bacterial, fungal, and viral tests based on common standards for testing disinfectants, and other microbe removal products. The most prominent of these are:

• Yersinia ruckeri (bacteria)

• Listeria (bacteria)

• E. coli (bacteria)

• Aspergillus brasiliensis (fungus)

• IPN virus

• Pasteurella sp.

Freebac has passed all microbe removal testing, therefore we can state that Freebac will be able to deal with all microbes (with reservations taken regarding multi-celled parasites and currently unknown patterns of resistance).

• Aquaculture Approval

• Food Inspection Approval