Integrated Environmental Technologies Ltd. announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved an amendment to the company's master label for its Excelyte disinfecting solution. The company's new EPA-approved label incorporates kill claims for adenovirus, norovirus, rhinovirus and rotavirus, which are considered non-enveloped viruses. These viruses have resulted in serious problems for chain restaurants, cruise ships, and other establishments operating in the food, health or hospitality industries.

Non-enveloped viruses are more resistant to disinfectants than enveloped viruses, many of which are already listed on the Company's master label. EPA registered hospital disinfectants such as Excelyte that have claims against non-enveloped viruses are capable of killing both enveloped and non-enveloped viruses on non-porous environmental surfaces. This group of viruses can cause serious gastrointestinal, stomach, respiratory and eye infections in humans who have been exposed.

Norovirus is highly contagious and is spread through contaminated food, water and environmental surfaces. Norovirus infections have been an ongoing challenge in the food, healthcare and hospitality industries and recent outbreaks in chain restaurants and cruise lines have underlined the need to eradicate these viral infections. The company's amended EPA-approved label for Excelyte will continue to include previously EPA-approved kill claims for, various pathogens including, but not limited to, Mycobacterium bovis (Tuberculosis), Salmonella enterica, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), H1N1 influenza virus (swine flu) and Respiratory Syncytial virus (RSV), hospital-acquired pathogens such as Clostridium difficile spores (C. diff) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) as well as a carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE) known as Klebsiella pneumoniae (NDM-1), high-risk blood-borne pathogen human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the food-borne pathogens Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli (E. coli).