{"id":490,"date":"2020-04-22T17:37:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freshgear.com\/?page_id=490"},"modified":"2024-03-21T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T09:20:05","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.freshgear.com\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It started with ozone sanitizing technology to get the stink out of hockey gear and became an indispensable tool to eradicate deadly viruses, bacteria and other pathogens in PPE.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Fresh Gear started in 2005 as an idea that developed into a proof of concept in the family garage of a home in Windsor, Ontario. The goal was to find a method to disinfect and deodorize hockey gear by killing the bacteria, viruses, fungus and other pathogens<\/b> that caused the stench. Of even greater importance was to address the increasing number of antibiotic-resistant infections within the sports community, like MRSA and c.difficile, that were emerging and leading to an alarming increase of serious injuries and deaths.<\/p>

Within months, disinfecting, deodorizing and sanitizing with ozone became our sole focus. There was a growing body of scientific, peer-reviewed evidence that supported our thousands of hours of work in research and development<\/b>, that ozone kills pathogens, pretty much all of them, when they come into contact.<\/p>

Safely hidden away inside the sealed chamber of the Fresh Gear machine, we replicated the scientifically-proven and critical formula, of the right concentration of ozone, over the appropriate duration and delivered directly to the contamination source, resulting in the rapid eradication of up to 99.99% of germs.<\/b><\/p>

Turns out that the best way to fight a nasty infection was to avoid getting it in the first place, by sanitizing your protective gear.<\/b><\/p>

Since launching in 2005, an\u00a0immense volume and variety of items have been sanitized with Fresh Gear machines at over 100 ozone sanitizing centers across North America. Treating this vast influx of:<\/p>