Altapure's Success in New Zealand
Date: March 18, 2024
Title: Altapure's Success in New Zealand
Ben Harris, a medical microbiologist and an active partner in Sanipure Ltd. located in New Zealand (NZ), currently consults for New Zealand’s largest care home company, Care Homes, which owns and operates 49 Villages/Facilities in NZ and 6 in Australia. When Covid was at the back door of NZ, Ben declared his conflict of interest and informed the Care Homes board of directors about the Altapure AP-4 sub-micron aerosol cloud technology and how its process delivers a 100% kill of pathogens, in a limited amount of time while leaving no residue. The Care Home company bought four (4) AP-4 units, three (3) for NZ and one (1) for Australia.
Hazleton Area School District Chooses Altapure
Date: March 26, 2021
Title: Hazleton Area School District Chooses Altapure
After reviewing the competition, including UV light, the Hazleton Area School District located in the state of Wisconsin, chose Altapure's AP-4 to disinfect their classrooms. The product was not only found to be great for their Covid response, but it is also used for treating shared items like laptops, and vechicles. Altapure was determined to be pivotal in addressing their need for environmental disinfection."
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Altapure Goes to Sea!
Date: Sept. 21, 2020
Title: Altapure Goes To Sea!
The SeaDream Yacht Club, a luxury yachting and vacation company, is setting sail this November with an Altapure AP-4 on board one of its luxury ships. Carl Ricciardi, President of Altapure commented, "Altapure's medical grade high-level disinfection technology offers unparalleled safety and peace of mind in the new COVID-19 era of travel, and we look forward to working with the SeaDream Yacht Club."
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Newsweek - Altapure Listed Among Best Infection Prevention Products
Date: May 6, 2020
Source: Newsweek
Title: Best Infection Prevention Products
Newsweek, in partnership with The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit that evaluates health care quality, compiled a list which highlights the best infection prevention products. These products were found to be the most promising for helping patients and the health care workforce avoid infection. Altapure is included in this list.
To decide which products would make this list, the selection committee evaluated each product using 4 criteria: effectiveness, safety (to both patients and health care workers), successful real-world implementation, and the stability of the company (to support future implementations).
Altapure on TV – Fox 6, Milwaukee
Date: March 4, 2020
Source: WITI – Fox 6 Now, Milwaukee
Journalist: Bret Lemoine
WISN – Fox 6 Now, located in Milwaukee, WI., interviewed and featured Altapure, LLC, and the capabilities of its technology to disinfect the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and help respond to the global pandemic that causes Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) disease.
Altapure on TV – ABC, WISN Milwaukee
Date: March 2, 2020
Source: WISN ABC Channel 12, Milwaukee
Journalist: Caroline Reinwald
WISN ABC News Channel 12, located in Milwaukee, WI., interviewed and featured Altapure, LLC, and the capabilities of its technology to disinfect the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and help respond to the global pandemic that causes Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) disease.
Research Paper – Disinfection Cabinet For Successful N95 Mask Disinfection
Date: April 20, 2020
Journal: Pathogens and Immunity
Journal Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32363254
A study was performed by Cadnum et al, including Dr Curtis Donskey, that showed that Altpure’s new disinfection cabinet, the MPDC-1, can successfully disinfect and decontaminate N95 masks contaminated with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease, as well as C difficil spores and MRSA.
UV-C light was also tested and failed the same test and should NOT be relied upon to render N95 masks safe, disinfected, or decontaminated.
Citation: Cadnum JL, Li D, Redmond SN, John AR, Pearlmutter B, Donskey C. Effectiveness of Ultraviolet-C Light and a High-Level Disinfection Cabinet for Decontamination of N95 Respirators. Pathogens and Immunity. 2020;5(1):52-67. doi: 10.20411/pai.v5i1.372
Altapure Resolves Lawsuit Against Surfacide UV Light Company In Federal Court, Forcing Surfacide To Remove Its False Marketing Claims From Its Website & Sales Materials
Date: April 20, 2020
News Type: Legal News
ALTAPURE SUCCESSFULLY RESOLVES ITS SUIT AGAINST SURFACIDE, LLC FORCING THE COMPANY TO REMOVE ALL OF ITS FALSE MARKETING CLAIMS FROM ITS WEBSITE AND SALES MATERIALS.
(Mequon, WI) During the discovery proceedings, and after the oral depositions of Jeff Veehuis and Adam Buchakian and half way through the deposition of Gunner Lylso, Surfacide abruptly agreed to remove all of its false and misleading statements regarding its UV light technology. It was patently obvious that executives and managers of Surfacide are not educated in the field of infection control or the supporting sciences. The depositions confirmed that UV light products are extremely limited to those surfaces in line of sight and with the effective distance from the light source. Further, despite the use of three emitters, shadowing remains a clear deficiency prohibiting the technology from obtaining a complete kill on all surfaces in a treated space.
In as much publicized study in the Journal of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, September 2018, Vol. 39, a study group at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center concluded, ”Utilization of UV disinfection to supplement routine terminal cleaning of rooms was not effective in reducing hospital acquired VRE and C. difficile among SCT recipients”. These results are similar to other published studies.
None of the UV light products have been shown to be able to meet the performance standards imposed on all chemical products, when claiming the ability to disinfect and/or sterilize, by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It is the “wild west” for the UV light industry because there has been no Federal Agency that has asserted supervisory jurisdiction over these products.
THE ALTAPURE HIGH-LEVEL DISINFECTION SYSTEMS (HLDS) ARE NOT EFFECTED BY SHADOWING OR DISTANCE.
Why choose an inferior product when life is at stake?
Research Paper – Disinfection Cabinet For Successful Disinfection of Coronavirus Surrogate & Candida auris Fungus
Date: April 20, 2020
Journal: Pathogens and Immunity
Journal Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31879095
A study was performed by Kumar et al, including Dr Curtis Donskey, that showed that Altpure’s new disinfection cabinet, the MPDC-1, can successfully disinfect and decontaminate “real world objects”, in addition to test disk surfaces, contaminated with microorganisms such as, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), C. difficile spores, bacteriophage MS2 (surrogate for Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)), Candida albicans, C auris fungus, and Geobacillus stearo-thermophilus spores.
Citation: Kumar, J.A., Cadnum, J.L., Jencson, A.L., Donskey, C.J., "Efficacy of a multi-purpose high level disinfection cabinet against Candida auris and other health care-associated pathogen". American Journal of Infection Control 00 (2019) 1−2.
Ben Harris, a medical microbiologist and an active partner in Sanipure Ltd. located in New Zealand (NZ), currently consults for New Zealand’s largest care home company, Care Homes, which owns and operates 49 Villages/Facilities in NZ and 6 in Australia. When Covid was at the back door of NZ, Ben declared his conflict of interest…
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