December 9, 2025
Holiday gatherings revolve around food. The roast and turkey at the table. The pies cooling on the counter. The recipes that define family traditions. These are the moments that matter. At Albemarle, health and food matter and we work to ensure the holidays most of all remain joyful, not dangerous. Our mission is simple: help eliminate pathogens such as Salmonella and E. coli that could quickly turn celebration into memories of illness and a potential crisis.
Each year, foodborne illnesses strike 600 million people worldwide and claims 420,000 lives, according to the World Health Organization. Behind these statistics are real families whose holidays were interrupted by hospital visits and children, whom are the most vulnerable to food-borne illnesses, became ill after meals that should have been safe to eat.
Our FDA-Approved Solutions
We've developed three USDA and FDA-approved antimicrobial products, designed for pathogens impacting specific proteins that anchor countless family meals:
- BoviBrom® provides high efficacy at low dosage rates to help protect against Salmonella and E. coli in beef. From holiday prime rib to weeknight steak, when deployed and compared to other chemistries, BoviBrom provides both enhanced worker safety against harmful odors and end-consumer protection against pathogens and with minimized impacts of the organoleptic profile, which dictates the odor, taste, texture, and shelf-life of premium cuts of beef.
- AviBrom® helps reduce harmful pathogens from raw poultry, including Campylobacter and Salmonella, using a safer, less corrosive solution in specific applications alongside other chemistries.
- PorciBrom® helps combat Salmonella and E. coli in pork as an antimicrobial that integrates well into production processes and provides a synergistic effect with other compatible chemistries used in the pork industry.
Albemarle maintains industry leading certifications such as Halal, Kosher and the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) to serve other markets and cultures which aligns to our core values of Care and Integrity. Our chemists and industry partners understand that protecting food requires the right chemistry applied with precision to ensure high-efficacy and protection.
We create chemistry that cares, because food safety isn’t just science: it’s personal. This holiday season, we hope you won’t be concerned about food safety and can savor what truly matters: laughter, love and the people around your table.
Learn more about Albemarle's role in food safety.
