Intralytix Awarded Grant For Managing Salmonella in Food

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Intralytix, Inc. has been awarded a Phase II grant under a National Institute of Food And Agriculture (NIFA) / United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program for the development of a phage preparation for reducing or eliminating Salmonella contamination in foods.  

Intralytix is a world leader in the development of bacteriophage-based products for food safety.  The company already has two FDA/USDA approved phage-based products on the market: ListShield™, effective at substantially reducing or eliminating Listeria monocytogenes in food products, and EcoShield™, effective at substantially reducing or eliminating E. coli O157:H7 in red meat intended for grinding. 

“We are pleased that phage technology is being recognized by this NIFA/USDA follow-on grant,” remarked John Woloszyn, Intralytix’s CEO.  “Phage-based antibacterials are a quickly emerging technology providing a safe, effective and all natural way to protect food from pathogenic bacterial contamination,” he added.  

 “Salmonella continue to produce foodborne illness at an alarming and increasing rate” stated Dr. Alexander Sulakvelidze, Intralytix’s Chief Scientist and Principal Investigator of the SBIR grant.  “In fact, the incidence of Salmonella-elicited disease during 2010 was nearly 3-fold more than the 2010 national health objective target, and current outbreaks of salmonellosis continue to occur on a regular basis. This NIDA/USDA Phase II grant will help us commercialize our phage preparation SalmoFresh™, effective at substantially reducing or eliminating Salmonella in various foods, thus making those foods safer for consumption” Dr. Sulakvelidze added. 

Intralytix, Inc is a biotechnology company focused on using its core bacteriophage/phage technology platform to improve human health through the development and commercialization of innovative products for food safety, veterinary medicine, human therapeutics and animal and human probiotics.

For more information, contact Mr. John Woloszyn (410-625-3813, or jwoloszyn@intralytix.com) or Dr. Alexander Sulakvelidze (410-625-2533, or asulakvelidze@intralytix.com). 

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Image: Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph showing Salmonella typhimurium (red) invading cultured human cells
Courtesy of Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH

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