With the growing concern that food contamination is on the rise, food safety has never been more critical. Fresh produce is a particularly high-risk commodity, a fact that lead the pioneering Clean Works company to develop a revolutionary process to clean fresh fruit and vegetables more effectively.

In 2015, after a listeria outbreak killed seven people, fruit farmer Paul Moyer decided to explore new research methods to better clean fresh produce.

Clēan Works has won a prestigious award for food safety from an international organization representing more than 70 countries. The International Association for Food Protection, with over 4,300 members involved in food safety, has announced that Clēan Works is this year's winner of its Food Safety Innovation Award which goes to 'an organization for creating a new idea, practice, or product that has had a positive impact on food safety.'

CANADIAN company is pushing its waterless fresh produce washing system into the global sphere. Clean Works, based in Beamsville, Ontario has invented a process to clean fresh produce without using water. Using ultraviolet light and vaporised hydrogen peroxide, the company claims the 30 second process kills 99 per cent of pathogens which create health risks.

BEAMSVILLE, ON, March 21, 2019 /CNW/ - Clēan Works is a company in the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario that has developed a new innovative technology that cleans food without using water. The revolutionary process represents a paradigm shift in the way food products are cleaned.