Patent ID: 7192618

Claim:
A product useful in pre-harvest and post-harvest treatment of foodstuffs to inhibit cellular growth of known pathogenic, indicator and spoilage bacteria, made by the process of: (a) combining sulfuric acid of approximately 94% purity to approximately 99.9% purity in a 1 to 2 volume ratio with distilled water and ammonium sulfate in a ratio of 2.77 pounds of ammonium sulfate per gallon of distilled water to provide mixture (I); (b) combining the mixture (I) in a pressurized vessel at a pressure that is above atmospheric pressure and heating the mixture at a temperature in a range between approximately 200 degrees Fahrenheit and approximately 1200 degrees Fahrenheit, for at least 30 minutes; (c) cooling the mixture; (d) adding a stabilizer which is a portion of mixture (I) and comprises approximately 10 weight percent of the total weight of mixture (I), thereby forming mixture (II); and (e) adding a compound containing metallic ions to mixture (II) to form mixture (III).