Ethema Health Corporation is collaborating with Sparta Group to expand on its efforts to enter the virus protection market. Ethema and Sparta have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) to form an equally owned joint venture company (the “Joint Venture”) for the purposes of manufacturing and selling products containing hypochlorous acid (“HOCI”) and to pursue the previously announced acquisition of Biohazard Health Services Ltd. Sparta is an environmental services company with expertise that lends itself to the pursuit of this business vertical. Sparta is involved in a number of pathogen protection products and has access to highly specialized manufacturers of products containing HOCl.

These HOCI products have been developed over the last 25 years in the food processing industry and have been successfully used to kill bacteria in poultry and beef processing plants. This expertise will be invaluable to the Joint Venture. Sparta is also providing a suite of COVID-fighting solutions to the trucking industry, a sector they already serve, and has been quickly expanding to offer its solutions to several other industries.

In light of COVID-19, keeping up with germ protection in many workplaces has been labor-intensive and time consuming. However, the COVID-Clear™ supplied Hypochlorous Acid used by Ethema was set up to disperse a pathogen attacker through airborne delivery on a constant basis, thus freeing up employees to stay focused on their jobs. The 40-bed Addiction Recovery Institute of America (ARIA) facility, located in West Palm Beach Florida, has been using an HOCI based pathogen protection system since the beginning of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, with great success.

With concerns about a potential third wave of COVID-19 looming on both sides of the Canada-US border, the two joint venture partners have decided to explore the use of HOCI disinfectant technologies in various market verticals, including health-related and industrial manufacturing settings. Hypochlorous acid (“HOCl”) is a familiar substance to many in the food processing industry, due to the fact that it is able to fight the pathogens that run rampant when processing products.