Exhibit 31.1

Certification Pursuant to Section 302 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

I, Joseph V. Vittoria,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, certify that:

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|1. | I
 have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended
 March 31, 2009 of Puradyn Filter Technologies Incorporated (the Company);                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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|2. | Based
 on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a
 material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the
 statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
 were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;                                                                                        
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|3. | Based
 on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
 included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the
 financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant
 as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;                                                                                                           
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|4. | The
 registrants other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for
 establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined
 in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over
 financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) an 15d-15(f))
 for the registrant and have:                                                           
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      Designed such disclosure controls and
 procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed
 under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the
 registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by
 others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this
 report is being prepared;         
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      Designed such internal control over financial
 reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be
 designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
 reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial
 statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted
 accounting principles;                
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      Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrants
 disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions
 about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the
 end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and                                                                                                      
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      Disclosed in this report any change in the
 registrants internal control over financial reporting that occurred during
 the registrants most recent fiscal quarter (the registrants fourth fiscal
 quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is
 reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrants internal control
 over financial reporting; and
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|5. | The
 registrants other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our
 most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the
 registrants auditors and the audit committee of registrants board of
 directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):                                                                                                     
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      All significant deficiencies and material
 weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial
 reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrants
 ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and                                                                                                                
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|   | (b)
      Any fraud, whether or not material, that
 involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the
 registrants internal control over financial reporting.                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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|Date: May 14, 2009 |                                                                   
|                   | /s/ Joseph V. Vittoria                                            
|                   | Joseph V. Vittoria                                                
|                   | Chairman and Chief
 Executive Officer, principal executive officer

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