Context and Objectives

Biofilms are responsible for billions of dollars in production losses and treatment costs in the industry every year. Indeed biofilms involve :

Food spoilage or poisoning in the food industry

Pathogens' persistence and dispersal in health industry

Corrosion and diameter reduction of pipelines

Assuming that the environment is over-saturated with harmful chemicals such as biocides, whose long-term health effects still have to be elucidated, there is a great need for novel solutions to reduce detrimental biofilm effects.
Thus, we develop a new generation of solution against biofilms in industry, which allows to reduce :

The use of harmful chemical reagents in cleaning processes

The cleaning costs for industrialists

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PROJECT STRATEGY

Our solution is based on engineered bacterial "torpedos" capable of infiltrating, destroying biofilms (KILL) and protecting the cleaned surfaces by either a surfactant coating (COAT option), or by establishment of a positive biofilm ( STICK option).