Michael L. Krall, President and CEO of PURE Bioscience stated, "With more than seven thousand hospitals in Brazil - approximately the same number as in the United States -- we look forward to a productive 2009 from Lifebio. We are pleased with the commitment of Lifebio and its pursuit of the necessary regulatory registrations to sell a wide variety of SDC-based products in Brazil. In addition to general and hospital disinfectants, Lifebio expects to receive regulatory approvals for other SDC-based products in the coming months."
In March 2007, PURE granted a license to market and sell its SDC-based products in Brazil to privately held Life Biociencias S/A of Apucarana, Parana in Brazil (Lifebio), a company of Grupo Nilson Ribeiro, together in a joint venture with privately held PCI International, Inc. of Lafayette, Louisiana (PCI). In July 2008, Life Biociencias S/A received Brazilian regulatory approval for its first SDC-based general disinfectant, "Desinfetante de Uso Geral LFE 100SX."
About Life Biociencias S/A
Lifebio, established solely to develop and promote silver dihydrogen citrate as a platform technology in Brazil, is a company of Grupo Nilson Ribeiro, also headquartered in Apucarana, Parana in Brazil. Lifebio purchases concentrate from PURE for blending, packaging and distribution of non-pharmaceutical SDC-based antimicrobial products. To that end, Lifebio/PCI has constructed a facility in Apucarana, Parana dedicated to blending and packaging SDC concentrate into end use disinfectant products.
About PURE Bioscience
PURE Bioscience develops and markets technology-based bioscience products that provide solutions to numerous global health challenges, including Staph (MRSA). PURE's proprietary high efficacy/low toxicity bioscience technologies, including its silver dihydrogen citrate-based antimi
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