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Dr. Shane
Chief Executive Officer

usage, and tailored protocol development for customers across all our industries. This focus has positively affected bid solution sales, which has seen stable and increased sales in each quarter. By sustaining this momentum while ramping up capital equipment sales and successfully closing project bids for automation solutions, will not only achieve our overall growth objectives, but also enhance predictability, which is essential for scaling the business effectively.

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Unidentified Corporate Speaker
Theme Presenter

Another theme, momentum builds, expanding pipeline and backlog.

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Dr. Shane
Chief Executive Officer

Our sales order backlog was 0.9 million at the quarter end and grew further to 1.3 million by October 31st, with approximately 3 million in pending CERAMIS integration contracts expected to close before year end. Our active pipeline surpassed 15 million, encompassing both domestic and international customers across the industries we currently serve, as well as emerging sectors showing strong interest. These figures are more than just metrics. They signal the business opportunities we anticipate in the coming quarters and extending into 2027.

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Unidentified Corporate Speaker
Theme Presenter

Another theme, visionary markets beyond traditional boundaries.

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Dr. Shane
Chief Executive Officer

We are doubling down on investments in innovation and customer success. Our Sterimus IHP technology continues to gain industry recognition. This year being named the disinfection and decontamination products company of the year 2025. Our platinum customer roster includes top tier leaders across every sector we serve. Further validating our solutions, and positioning TOMI as a trusted partner in global health and safety. Regulatory developments are opening new markets. The FDA's broadened approval of hydrogen peroxide and our breakthrough demonstration of stirring this efficacy against honeybee colony collapse position us to serve not only life sciences and healthcare, but also agriculture, food processing, and environmental biosafety. The opportunity before us is vast, expanding the relevance and impact of Sturimist on a global scale. Strategic execution laying the groundwork for 2026. To maintain and accelerate this momentum, as stated earlier, we are intensifying customer outreach through personalized engagement strategies Deploying targeted marketing campaigns that highlight real-world success stories and forging deeper partnerships with key industry players. Our Sterimus pro-certified program and learning management systems are empowering the market with essential education while onboarding specialized service providers. We are also in the process of updating, improving, and adding to our training programs across all delivery systems. Looking ahead, heading into 2026, TOMI is sharpening its focus on biosecurity advancements that address evolving global challenges, from climate-driven health risks to supply chain vulnerabilities. We will prioritize scaling our automation integrations for high efficacy environments. Exploring untapped opportunities in sustainable agricultural and public infrastructure and fostering collaborative R&D with academic and industry partners. This will empower us to deliver solutions that enhance environmental resilience safeguard communities worldwide, and drive sustainable returns, ultimately positioning Tomi as the go-to innovator in a rapidly changing world. I will now hand the call over to our Chief Financial Officer, David Vance, who will provide a brief overview of our financial results for the third quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year.

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David Vance
Chief Financial Officer

David.

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Unidentified Participant

Thank you.

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David Vance
Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Dr. Shane. In the third quarter of 2025, our revenue was 2 million, a decline from 2.5 million in Q3-24, representing a 24% decrease in sales. This was primarily driven by a timing reduction in the quarter of IHP services sales from a key customer who reorganized its operations. This impact is expected to be temporary, and the customer's operations and related service activity are expected to resume to a normal level in the near future. Importantly, the year-to-date service demand remains robust, with quote activity and pipeline volume up approximately 35% year over year in the life sciences and the food safety area. This trend supports our expectation for continued growth in the fourth quarter and beyond. For the nine months ended September 30th, 25, solution revenue was $760,000, an increase of 21% year-on-year, as earlier stated by Dr. Shane, compared to the same period in 2014, as we continue to drive recurring sales of solution within our customer base. A positive point was our gross profit margins remained strong at 61% as a percentage of sales for the three months ended September 30th, 2025, and for the same period last year. The consistency of our gross profit margin underscores the resilience of our product mix and disciplined cost management. The three months ended September 30, 2025, we experienced an operating loss of approximately $320,000 compared to an operating income of 149 in the same period last year. Our net loss for three months ended September 30, 2025, was approximately $450,000 or two cents a share compared to a net income of 58,000 or zero compared to the same period last year. As of September 30, 2025, our financial position includes cash and cash equivalents of approximately $190,000, working capital of 2.5 million and a share held equity of 2.2 million. I will now turn the call over to our Chief Operating Officer, E.J. Shane, to discuss the upcoming business highlights.

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E.J. Shane
Chief Operating Officer

Thank you, David. Our previously announced active projects are currently on schedule for delivery by the end of the year, and we are currently negotiating an additional $3 million in custom and integrated contracts, with bids expected to close before the year ends. 2025 showcased TOME's evolution into a trusted technology partner for regulated industries. Implementing STERAMIS with agencies such as NASA and Fort Detrick, alongside repeat orders from global leaders, underscores STERAMIS' position as a gold standard for contamination control. With major pharma companies investing in United States on-shoring and sectional facilities, TOME is ideally positioned to capture expanded opportunities in sterile automation systems. Automated, repeatable, and validated decontamination rooms and chambers remain in high demand as the pharmaceutical industry evolves. We believe our IHP technology is emerging as a benchmark for sterile environments, as evidenced by its adoption this year with premier companies. As of the third quarter, the onshoring of pharmaceutical production positions us favorably, specifically in Virginia for the next few years, particularly with major commitments from Merck, Eli Lilly, and AstraZeneca, who are establishing new production sites. As we build on the strong momentum we've shared today, the key question is obvious. How will we keep driving growth in BIT solution sales, IHP service, capital equipment, and custom integrations? As Dr. Shane noted earlier, our BIT solution gains come from growth in personnel and operations and better training for our current customers. We will keep this going to drive steady adoption and stronger reach in key sectors. We are nearly complete on updated training documents rolling out a more comprehensive program that emphasizes ongoing recertification. This approach not only raises customer standards for implementation safety, but also may generate additional revenue and deeper product adoption, strengthening TOME's role as an essential partner. Quarter three of 2025 unfolded an essential chapter in TOME's journey, marked by breakthroughs that not only validated our recent innovations, but also directly fed our pipeline of opportunities. It began in July with the installation and commissioning of our SISSA for a neighboring pharmaceutical company, which falls under our ceramics integrated system or SIS platform of offerings targeting the pharmaceutical isolator market. A milestone that led to successful integrations into additional enclosures for Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Miami and a promising wave of future installations with both existing and prospective manufacturing partners. In the life sciences and manufacturing sectors, we see a powerful shift toward continuous bioprocessing, flexible facilities and AI enabled operations. These advancements demand decontamination solutions that integrate effortlessly with automation while minimizing downtime, precisely where our custom engineered system, or CES, excels, offering rapid, efficient sterilization to support production and operational efficiency. While our CES remains in demand due to its tailored capabilities, we recognize that its extended timeline from initial interest to full commissioning can be extensive. As the CES pipeline continues to expand, We are strategically prioritizing our hybrid and the SIS products, which offer faster close rates and quicker integration and implementation within facilities. This balanced approach ensures that all our custom automated offerings advance at a comparable pace, with the hybrid and the SIS line serving as the ideal solution for our automated integration segment, driving quicker revenue realization than the CES. Building on our Q3 momentum, August marked a significant step forward when our East Coast distributor, Aries Scientific, who helped to secure a new university client for our SIS platform, solidified our presence in the academic vertical and opening doors to specialized applications in research environments. This progress carried into this week's ALAS conference, where we collaborated closely with Aries on promising upcoming projects and showcased our advanced product lineup alongside our enhanced engineering capabilities in programming and design. By engaging manufacturers of cage washers, decontamination chambers, and biological safety cabinets, or BSCs, we are expanding our partnership options for future integrations, strengthening our pipeline with diverse choices while positioning these collaborators as valuable resources to expand the StairMist IHP brand and technology into high potential sectors, such as government agencies, universities, and animal research. Additionally, our discussions with ALAS included a new potential representative company for the West Coast, as well as opportunities for complementary products that could generate fresh revenue streams by pairing seamlessly with our core technology. Stay tuned for updates on these developments as they may diversify our pipeline as it's heading into next year. In healthcare, new initiatives like the Joint Commission's Accreditation 360 program, set to launch in 2026, may open new revenue streams for TOMI as well. The program will create a growing need for verifiable, audible disinfection data. which Stereomist delivers through its advanced logging and reporting features, helping providers meet stringent standards and enhance patient safety. In quarter three, we celebrated a landmark addition to our roster of customers with a major player in the eye health industry. Bausch & Lomb rapidly adopted our mobile handheld surface units in two facilities in under four months and committed to open the solution orders for 2026, promising sustained revenue streams in a sector in need for advanced sterility. In September, we made significant strides in capital equipment segments by onboarding a specialized service provider focused on healthcare and mold remediation, quickly followed by SteriClean and TAPT, purchasing mobile systems, with the latter expanding their SteriMIS lines with foggers. We continue to speak with these three and other larger franchise service providers for a widespread adoption of SteriMIS IHP technology across their networks. Our highly regarded SteriMIS Pro Certified, or SPC, program continues to nurture a dynamic environment of partners and customers, enhancing implementation and long-term usage. Large contract cleaning, bioremediation, and restoration firms, such as TerraClean and TAC, are scaling up their offerings to handle complex, high-margin jobs in biohazard, mold, and mycotoxin cleanup using our advanced technology. This year has brought a transformative shift in our business development approach, with initial purchases of one or two units at select locations, inspiring broader rollouts across entire organizations. a pattern that is starting to play out successfully in both the life sciences and commercial industry. To sustain this momentum, we continue developing these organic expansions, which is key to scaling our business and, of course, its model. A prime example is our growing relationship with Nestle, which is gaining traction, and they have expressed a strong desire to establish our technology as the global standard across their nutritional facilities worldwide. We have already deployed multiple SteriPaks to various branches internationally, setting the stage for substantial reoccurring revenue and further international growth. We continue to pursue the cannabis market under our Food Safety Division, and Quarter 3 sparked some significant interest domestically and internationally, opening doors to promising new partnership discussions. Our current distributor, Sterile Grow, continues to market and slowly gain traction, adding to the referral base and efficacy use data for the market. We have unofficially entered a collaboration with Smithers, the largest testing lab in the United States, which we expect to yield lead referrals soon and will soon begin a study in Morocco that positions us for entry into the European and African medical cannabis markets. A key quarter three highlight pertains to a regulatory change. The FDA's final order amending regulations to permit hydrogen peroxide as a safe disinfectant, oxidizer, and bleaching agent in food for human consumption while removing sulfur dioxide restrictions This ruling is game-changing for Sterimus, validating our BIT Solutions food-grade hydrogen peroxide as the sole active ingredient and providing a clear regulatory framework with a competitive edge in the multibillion-dollar food safety market. By expanding applications beyond environmental disinfection to direct food-related protocols, such as in the ready-to-eat or RTE industry, where convenience foods like prepackaged meals and salads demand pathogen control, It positions Tomi to capture a significant share across the supply chain. With no residual concern due to Sterimus IHV's breakdown into oxygen and humidity, we can now disinfect equipment, processing lines, and facilities in food-present environments to target threats like salmonella, listeria, and E. coli, decontaminate packaging and storage areas to prevent cross-contamination, and sanitize transportation vehicles for end-to-end hygiene. This broadens our addressable market and drives revenue growth in high demand sectors. Thank you, and I will return the call over to Dr. Shane for his closing statements.

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Dr. Shane
Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Ajay. We remain focused on strengthening our organizational foundation, enhancing our C-suite, management, and division leadership, building out our sales and technical teams, and expanding our network of global distributors. The third quarter marked a notable period of recovery and reaffirmed the soundness of our strategy. We are seeing steadily improvement financially, operationally, and strategically. Our team is dedicated to driving growth and innovation across all divisions, leveraging our expanding portfolio of products and services. We are encouraged by the opportunities that lie ahead. Our sales backlog remains strong, and the sales strategy implemented at the end of last year is beginning to deliver promising results. We are motivated by the progress in our strategic partnerships and the growing interest from clients seeking to improve their operations with our solutions. With continuous investment in infrastructure, technical expertise, and a stronger sales strategy, we believe we are well positioned for a successful fourth quarter with momentum carrying into 2026. I'd like to highlight a recent strategic milestone that positions us for sustained growth. On November 5th, we entered into an equity purchase agreement with Hudson Global Ventures. giving us the flexible right, but not the obligation, to sell up to $20 million in common stock over a 24-month period. Full details are in our Form 8K filing. The agreement provides the flexibility for on-demand access to capital without upfront commitments or heavy dilutions, helping us fund the strategies, goals, and momentum. We have described today, including our business development needs, hiring customer service specialists, technicians and programmers, trainers and operational support to accelerate our pace while maintaining our strong reputation with customers across the industries we serve. It will also enable us to expand on key initiatives such as advancing R&D, regulatory pursuits and market expansion. ensuring we seize opportunities in cleantech and biosecurity while creating long-term value for shareholders. Thank you for your continued support as we unlock TOMI's next era of growth. We're excited about what's ahead. Now, operator, let's open the call to questions.

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Operator
Conference Call Operator

Thank you, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time you'll be conducting our question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question key. and you may press star 2 if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment please while we poll for questions. Thank you. Our first question is coming from Samir Joshi with HC Wainwright. Your line is live.

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Samir Joshi
Analyst, HC Wainwright & Co.

Hey, good afternoon, Doc, David, EJ. Really good quarter. Congratulations on the nice turnaround and progress. One of the key things I think you announced was the FDA approval or clearance for the hydrogen peroxide usage. It opens the food RTE and prepackaged as EJ outlined. What are your sales and marketing efforts towards this? And have you identified initial targeted customers that you would pursue?

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Dr. Shane
Chief Executive Officer

So it's relatively new, this approval. And we foresee that the food industry in itself, both whether it's in processing, storage, packaging, transportation, et cetera, can be a key marketing vertical for us. And I'm really excited about it because especially our type of technology does not have any residue. And it's going to be a game changer. But, you know, in order to go ahead and tell you how much and who. It's a little too early, I think. And I find that a lot of the food companies themselves are not aware of the change. But things are changing in this industry. They're leaning away from old established disinfection and parasitic acids and things like that, and dips, et cetera, that they've been using. And our technology is a definite, should be on top of their list as a choice.

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Samir Joshi
Analyst, HC Wainwright & Co.

Yeah, no, it certainly makes sense what you're saying, and I'm sure it will open up a big, big market for you. On the 3Q performance, again, as I said, congrats on the nice turnaround. The operating expenses were also contained despite the nice revenue increases. Should we expect these operating expenses at the operating expense level as well as the gross margin level to continue to sort of improve financially?

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Dr. Shane
Chief Executive Officer

So for your model, I think your expenses are going to increase. And, you know, I think they're going to be positive in relationship to revenue. David might have something to add to this. if you would like, David.

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David Vance
Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, I think for the gross margin, I think you may dip 1% or 2%, but nothing significant. You've already seen that over the year on year, we're holding around the 60% margin. I mean, that helps us with the continuing solution sales that come in. So I don't expect our margin to be under too much pressure, but as Doc pointed out, if we're going to scale up, I would expect, you know, the revenue line will go up at the same time, but the percentage of the total sales the operating expenses as a percentage of our total revenue will not significantly go.

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Samir Joshi
Analyst, HC Wainwright & Co.

Yeah, that is what I was driving at because you did outline the R&D efforts and initiatives. So they will increase, but you will still have leverage and revenues are probably going to increase faster. Yes, correct. Got it. Last question. On the international front, I think you did mention Morocco, Africa, What kind of a sales effort is in place? Do you have representatives in these countries? How should we think about how the sales are going to be realized?

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Dr. Shane
Chief Executive Officer

So we have different distributors in some of these countries that are focused in them. I think that a lot of our global partners, where we mentioned one in the food industry on the call earlier, is implementing this in many of their facilities globally. Similar to that, you see other types of partners that we have that have global partnerships footprint in various countries that are interested in increasing their demand and use for Sturimus going forward.

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Samir Joshi
Analyst, HC Wainwright & Co.

Hidok, may I squeeze in one more? Because I think you had pointed out that your capital equipment sales increased. I think that bodes well for solution sales in coming quarters. Do you have visibility on what kind of solution sales you will see in the coming quarters?

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Dr. Shane
Chief Executive Officer

I don't. Again, I think the first half of the year we had about a 40% increase in solution sales over 24%. and in the third quarter we're down to about uh i believe it was in the mid 21 so it averaged down a little bit i think by the end of the fourth quarter our recurring sales should pop up again because people wanting to get the solution in by end of year and i think that's the key to this whole call is we get more technology out there we do it via by manufacturing, but via by also increasing our sales and our sales strategies in these areas. And more equipment lead to more solution sales, which is the model that would drive a very successful business going forward.

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Samir Joshi
Analyst, HC Wainwright & Co.

Thanks, Doc.

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Unidentified Participant

Thanks for taking my question. Thank you for the questions.

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Operator
Conference Call Operator

Thank you. As a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, if you do have any questions, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. Our next question is coming from John Nelson, who is a private investor. Your line is live. Thank you.

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John Nelson
Private Investor

Hi, all, and congrats to you and the Tomi team on the enhanced momentum that the company seems to be generating right now. I have continued to steadily add to my stock position since my latest 13G amended filing in July. So I'm very pleased with your results, and I know the efforts are superlative. So thank you. Thank you. Questions. Oh, you're welcome. Questions in the, is there anything, updates you can give me on the, what's going on with servicing or trying to service the military and defense markets?

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Dr. Shane
Chief Executive Officer

I don't have one. Maybe E.J.

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Unidentified Corporate Speaker
Theme Presenter

has something to say about that.

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E.J. Shane
Chief Operating Officer

Hey, John. Yes, this past quarter, a lot of our service was directly attributed to one key site. I can't really go into too much detail, but they are looking to replace formaldehyde and have been, and we're working with them. We did quite a few studies with them in Q3. We went there eight or nine times and had positive results. I don't expect that one to show a close before the end of the year, but we are definitely expecting it to be a pretty big deal in 2026.

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John Nelson
Private Investor

Okay, good. Any updates on the CAR T-cell disinfection business?

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Unidentified Participant

DJ? No, Doc. I don't think we have anything, Jack.

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John Nelson
Private Investor

Okay. You mentioned in the press release that you've now onboarded all three of the top major service provider companies in healthcare mold remediation. And I was curious as to... Any expectations that we should have on a rapid versus slow rollout by these parties?

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E.J. Shane
Chief Operating Officer

So, yes, and I know you've been asking, you know, it wasn't ServiceMaster, but bringing on SteriClean and TACT and this other group was definitely a big deal in Q3, especially with their quick assessment to add more units pretty quickly thereafter their initial buy. They do have a focus more in biohazard and mycotoxin remediation, and we expect to really keep working with them and gain live case studies to be able to bring on the rest of their facilities and then, of course, you know, additional franchises. So I do see a dramatic shift in our service providership. I think it's the way we've now outlined the way we train and support them with the program and the learning management system that we offer to them. And we're a little more aggressive in the correspondence and staying up to date with everything they're doing. So it is proving a good outcome. I'd expect more.

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John Nelson
Private Investor

Okay. Great. A lot of attention is being paid and a lot of dollars is going to the data center market. Google just announced... that they were planning on investing $40 billion in new data centers in Texas. So could you comment at all on any plans to try to penetrate the disinfection market for those types of facilities?

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Dr. Shane
Chief Executive Officer

Sure, John. That's one of our reasons that we are expanding and want to expand our sales teams in multiple verticals, and that's one that makes a huge amount of interest and potentially success for us because they do need disinfection. They're large facilities, and we will handle their materials tremendously. So we are going to work on that. We just do not have the employees at the moment to focus on that. And that's one of the reasons for capital needs and to increase our existing sales force.

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John Nelson
Private Investor

Got it. And besides the data centers in planning stages for being developed, there's also the current existing market And many of them are crypto data centers that are being basically converted to use by the Magnificent Seven. That's true. And last question is the FDA broadening the permitted use of hydrogen peroxide in the food industry. And I was wondering if you could maybe give us a few more details on how you're increasing your awareness for that.

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Dr. Shane
Chief Executive Officer

We are doing it on social media, and we do have plans to increase it further. Like I said earlier with the call from the analysts, we know who they are that need our product, and sometimes they don't even know they can use our product. So it's more in an educational mode at the moment. But I think that, you know, also in the medical supply, medical sterilization and of medical materials, medical processing, you know, sites that have huge ethylene oxide sterilization. Our product's a great replacement. So there's a lot of work, a lot of low-picking fruit for us to work at in those areas and those verticals. And as the team gets bigger and moves forward, we will be focused on them. Okay.

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John Nelson
Private Investor

And in marketing, are you targeting the companies that have had problems in the past?

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Unidentified Participant

Inject?

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John Nelson
Private Investor

Are you targeting companies first that have had problems in the past with infections and disease?

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E.J. Shane
Chief Operating Officer

We are, John, but we did start our initial, you know, beginning point was to start with our current database and the correspondence that we have had with food safety customers probably past a year and a half or two that couldn't come on board because prior to the ruling it was, you know, had different restrictions for the EPA label. So we're now in correspondence with the new FDA petition and reaching out how to create protocols under that guideline. So we did start with individuals that we were already talking with.

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John Nelson
Private Investor

Okay, good. And then one more that I just thought about is any progress or developments in the use of Steramist for replacing ethylene oxide in the medical instrument sterilization market?

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E.J. Shane
Chief Operating Officer

Yeah, I mean, it goes kind of in hand under both accounts in food and in medical device treatment. The other, you know, partnerships that we're starting to build in device manufacturing will also lead to that replacement being able to have IHP streamlined into different closures to decontaminate these devices and other large machinery that's used in both industries. So it's definitely all being high prioritized in discussion.

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Unidentified Corporate Speaker
Theme Presenter

Okay. Thank you very much. Thanks, John, for the questions. You're welcome.

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Operator
Conference Call Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude our question and answer session, so I would like to turn the call back over to Dr. Shane for any closing remarks.

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Dr. Shane
Chief Executive Officer

I just want to thank everybody for joining us today and for the continued support. And we will be speaking at our next earning call. Many thanks. Have a wonderful day or evening, wherever you might be. Thank you, operator.

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Operator
Conference Call Operator

Thank you. And thank you, ladies and gentlemen. This does conclude today's call. You may disconnect your lines at this time. And we thank you for your participation.

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