UAB “Milviteka” in November 2016 successfully completed the project “Ozone Technologies for Green Innovations”, during which was created a new technology for washing of fruits and vegetables using ozone gas.

The project “Ozone Technologies for Green Innovations” (project code NOR-LT09-ŪM-01-K-03-007) is supported under the Green Industry Innovation Programme of Norwegian Financial Mechanism for 2009–2014.

Ozone is a gas. And it consists of only one element – oxygen. Ozone can be imagined as a normal molecule O2 with a very nervous, active, reactive, irritated, energetic, and viable atom O1. It is active and reactive.

Ozone is a powerful antimicrobial substance of gaseous and aqueous condition, suitable for application in food industry. Molecular ozone or its fragmentation products quickly decontaminate microorganisms by reacting with intracellular enzymes, nuclear material and their cell membrane components, spore membranes or viral capsids. Applied in food industry, ozone is generated locally and quickly decomposes without leaving any residue. Ozone is suitable for decontamination of products, equipment, surfaces in contact with food and processing environment.

The basis for industrial ozone production – the a