EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(MARKET WIRE)--Sep 3, 2008 -- Innovotech (CDNX:IOT.V - News) has received a $474,786 contract over two years from the Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food (ACAAF) program of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The program is administered in Alberta through the Agriculture and Food Council. The contract will evaluate and potentially commercialize a group of naturally occurring agents for the sanitation of foods and food preparation surfaces. Innovotech has developed and patented these agents derived from natural plant pigments that are currently registered in Canada as food dyes. The combination of these pigments with certain light sources and oxygen kills microorganisms. "This novel approach to sanitation can extend the shelf life of food products and reduce food contamination, which is of benefit to both producers and consumers." says Dr. Merle Olson, Innovotech's Research Director.

"This research is aimed at developing products that meet the needs of both the traditional and the organic food markets for a safe and effective way of controlling contamination and spoilage of food." says Dee Ann Benard, Agriculture and Food Council's Chair.

About Innovotech Inc:

Innovotech is a product development company focusing on the development of solutions to medical, agricultural and industrial problems caused by microbial biofilms. Biofilms are protected communities of microorganisms which are very common and very difficult to treat due to their inherent resistance. They have been implicated in a host of devastating infections in agriculture, human health and industry.

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     Ken Boutilier
     President
     (780) 448-0585 Ext 221
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     Email: ken.boutilier@innovotech.ca
      
     ACAAF, Agriculture and Food Council of Alberta
     Tom Switzer
     Executive Director
     (780) 955-3714 ext 226