According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Food poisoning makes roughly 48 million Americans sick each year. Of those, 128,000 become sick enough to need hospitalization. And of those, 3,000 people die.
In addition to the medical misery and loss of life, food-borne pathogens take a toll on the economy.
Experts expect superbugs to cost a cumulative $100 trillion of economic output by 2050.
According to The Harvard Business Review, foodborne illnesses cost America $55 billion a year in medical treatment, lost productivity, and lost wages, not to mention litigation expenses.
The latest CDC estimates are that more than 2.8 million people in the U.S. get sick each year from superbugs, and these infections are the primary cause of death for 35,000 of them. This number doesn’t include those infected by MRSA, a dangerous and often deadly staph infection
It’s clear that if we don’t find a way to detect life-threatening bacteria faster, and treat infections sooner, more people will get sick … more will die … and bacteria and superbugs will pose an increasingly significant risk to people, animals, and economies.
Putting the affordable and effective Edoceo early-warning
system of viral or bacterial infections into everyday scenarios can be
considered an essential step in risk prevention.
What sets Edoceo apart is our biosensors’ ability to give
almost instantaneous warnings of specific infectious outbreaks, enabling early
treatments and solutions that can save production facilities and the health
care system billions of dollars and, we believe, potentially save many lives.
The Edoceo detection sensors, which offers rapid test results, enables sampling to be repeated as many times as needed, at an affordable cost for our A-Detect™ and our B-Detect™ and V-Detect™ products will be a fraction of the cost of other bacteria or virus testing systems, which can also take
hours or days to deliver results.
Edoceo sensors can provide critical information for many applications, including monitoring and controlling disease outbreaks in our water and food supply systems. Edoceo sensors can alert to serious bacterial outbreaks in key animal
husbandry industries, such as aquaculture, which loses billions of dollars
every year to disease – and in the process dramatically reduce the current
systemic reliance on antibiotics. Edoceo devices can also monitor excessive bacterial growth
in industrial equipment for food production, making food processing facilities,
as well as oil and water pipelines, safer and more reliable every day.
Our sensors can even be used easily and non intrusively by
pet owners and veterinarians to quickly diagnose when pets are suffering from a
serious infection and need treatment.