Poultry antimicrobial intervention is not just a chemistry decision. It's a food safety decision, a product quality decision, a worker safety decision, a maintenance decision, and a service decision. Teleios builds programs around the outcomes that actually matter on the line.
A poultry antimicrobial intervention program is the system of chemistry, equipment, monitoring, and service that helps reduce pathogen risk at key points in the process. The chemistry matters. So does where it is applied, how consistently it is controlled, how the product responds to it, and whether the program can be defended with data when QA, customers, or auditors come asking.
Modern poultry food safety does not rely on a single silver bullet. It relies on a multi-hurdle approach — a series of sequential controls that each contribute to microbial reduction as product moves through the line. No single intervention point carries the whole program. Each one earns its place.
Traditional peracetic acid is effective. It has earned its place as a preferred antimicrobial in many poultry applications, in part because it performs well against pathogens and is less affected by organic load. That is not in dispute. The question is what else the plant has to take on to make the program work.
At application points where crews work close to the chemistry, how much odor people can tolerate often decides how high PAA runs, not the microbial data. That's a food safety compromise most programs never write down.
Appearance, texture, and yield are on your customers' specs. When an intervention affects them, it shows up as complaints, held lots, and lost yield.
Acidic, oxidizing chemistry wears the steel, fasteners, drains, and concrete around each application point. Maintenance pays for it in parts, downtime, and early replacements, and none of it shows up on the chemical invoice.
PAA's working strength moves with water temperature, pH, and organic load, and readings vary with sampling and test method. The number on the strip may not match what's in the tank, and you can't control what you can't measure reliably.
When something drifts or breaks, a vendor's value comes down to how fast someone answers and how fast someone shows up. When that's slow, the cost lands on your managers, who end up on call to keep the line moving.
"Price per gallon"
is the wrong question.
The point is not that PAA is wrong. The right question is what the program costs the plant in odor, corrosion, product quality, concentration drift, and service response — and whether a different approach could change that math.
Teleios does not try to be your sanitation labor provider, janitorial supplier, and intervention vendor at the same time. We focus on the part of the program where intervention performance, product quality, worker comfort, and process data intersect. We're designed to work alongside your existing vendors — not displace them.
Sodium peracetate · on-site generated
Our patented sodium peracetate antimicrobial, generated fresh on demand from three GRAS ingredients. The feedstocks are delivered to your plant, and the system makes T-24 for each point on your line.
Peracetic acid · supported where it earns its place
PAA is effective. We support it where it is the right tool for the plant — and where the plant is not ready to overhaul the program in one move. Optimization first, conversion when the data calls for it.
As part of broader intervention and process needs
Sequenced into the program where your process calls for it, not added by default.
The reason T-24 matters is not the technology itself. The reason it matters is what it changes about the QA conversation. The intervention program is built around the kill, not around the constraints. Concentration is set to meet microbial targets, not held down by odor complaints or equipment worries.
A traditional PAA program asks plants to manage trade-offs in exchange for performance. T-24 is designed to reduce those trade-offs — to give QA, operations, and maintenance a single program that can run at the concentration the data is asking for.
PAA is effective in poultry interventions. It has earned its place, and a side-by-side comparison should reflect that honestly. The point of the table below is not that PAA is wrong — the point is that plants comparing options deserve to see the trade-offs clearly, in one place.
Effective and widely used against Salmonella and Campylobacter
2.01 log₁₀ Salmonella reduction in a chiller simulation, comparable to PAA
Vinegar odor that can limit how high plants run the dose
Virtually odorless at use
Acidic and oxidizing; wears equipment over time
Alkaline at use; less corrosion than PAA in materials testing
Acidic at use; product effects at higher concentrations need monitoring
Alkaline at use (pH 9–12), so no acid contact with the product
Bulk chemical storage and delivery dependency
Generated on site from three delivered feedstocks
Concentration affected by chiller conditions, organic load, and measurement
Generated fresh and dosed automatically with real-time control
Depends on your supplier
Blue Ribbon Service, tied to your plant's KPIs
The data behind this table, including how each study was run, is in the T-24 Intro Kit.
Get the T-24 Intro Kit →Chemistry is only as strong as the system keeping it right. Blue Ribbon Service connects the intervention program to your plant's KPIs — and keeps reviewing the data, conditions, and calibration after the sale. A defined workflow, not a vague promise.
Poultry intervention programs have to perform in the real world and hold up in documentation. Teleios programs are evaluated around validated use, process monitoring, plant-specific conditions, and the records your team needs when questions come up — from auditors, from customers, or from FSIS.
FSIS performance standards apply to Salmonella and Campylobacter in raw chicken parts and not-ready-to-eat comminuted chicken and turkey products. Meeting them is a plant-level effort that depends on process design, sanitation, intervention chemistry, monitoring, and documentation working together.
The best poultry antimicrobial program does not only satisfy QA. It has to survive the full buying committee — food safety, operations, maintenance, safety, procurement, and corporate. A program that wins on one scoreboard and loses on the other five is a program waiting to be replaced.
Consistent performance, validation, and a program that holds up in an audit.
A dose set on the microbial data, not on how much odor the line can tolerate, with records that hold up in an audit.
Microbial control, FSIS readiness, the documentation that supports Category performance.
Programs designed to support process control and produce the records you need before you have to go looking for them.
Yield, turnover, downtime, cost, and customer specs — all moving the right way at the same time.
The hidden costs of your current program, from odor and corrosion to drift and slow service, reviewed together against your KPIs.
Chemistry chosen with your equipment in mind and a vendor who shows up when something breaks.
Alkaline chemistry at the points T-24 covers, and a service team that shows up when something breaks.
A virtually odorless program, clear handling requirements, and a trained crew.
Feedstock handling and training planned with your EHS team before installation.
Multi-site consistency, proactive service, and overall cost control.
We align intervention decisions with your most important KPIs and run regular reviews against them.
One program. Six scoreboards. All six matter.
