it’s meant to protect.
A 90-day pilot bringing the world’s first post-toxic cleaning system into animal shelters from kennel runs to cat wards to surgery suites.
The chemicals protecting animals
from disease are making them
sick.
8×
Shelter cats and dogs carry elevated QAC residues in feces vs. pet-home animals from cage surfaces they groom and lick.
<2%
Concentration at which QACs cause oral ulceration, drooling, fever, and pneumonia in cats often misdiagnosed as a calicivirus outbreak.
54%
Higher asthma risk among cleaning workers documented for shelter staff exposed to bleach, quats, and phenols daily.
THE INDUSTRY’S OPEN SECRET
Every option on the shelf
comes with a warning label.
Read the Merck Veterinary Manual, the Koret Shelter Medicine Program, or the ASPCA infection-control guide. Every disinfectant in common use has a known toxicity profile and none are safe for the animals while being applied.
COMMON SHELTER DISINFECTANTS
Bleach (1:32)
Caustic, corrosive, respiratory irritant · must be re-mixed daily
IRRITANT
Quats (Roccal, KennelSol, A-33)
Toxic to cats · does not reliably kill parvo / panleuk / calici
TOXIC · CATS
Phenols & pine oils
Lysol, Pine-Sol · fatal to cats · ASPCA explicitly warns against use
DO NOT USE
Accelerated H₂O₂ / Rescue™
Safer but caustic at use concentration; 5-min dwell, must rinse
CAUTION
Mother Ferment residue
Food-derived · GRAS-grade · safe if licked from a paw
SAFE
For 70 years, shelter medicine has cycled between toxic and greenwashed.
PETROCHEMICAL
Effective but toxic, corrosive, and hazardous to animals.
Bleach, quats, and phenols the incumbent standard, with documented mortality in cats and chronic respiratory harm in staff.
“GREEN”
Marketed as safer. Often just diluted petrochemistry.
Many green cleaners emitted more VOCs than petrochemical counterparts. Several contained undisclosed carcinogens.
BIOFERMENTED · POST-TOXIC
Not petrochemical. Not greenwashed. Fundamentally different.
An entirely new category built outside both legacy industries from food-derived, GRAS-grade ingredients.
The shelter chemical closet, reduced to three products.
From kennel runs to cat wards. From intake to surgery recovery.
01 · MF-01
All-Surface Concentrate
1:32 CONCENTRATE
Safe on a paw. Safe on a tongue.
Replaces 5–8 cleaners. Kennel walls, stainless cages, cat condos, exam tables, intake areas.
02 · MF-02
Advanced Antimicrobial
READY-TO-USE
100× stronger than Lysol. Safer than salt.
5.69-log pathogen reduction. Parvo · Bordetella · Calici · Panleuk · Ringworm.
03 · MF-03
Floor & Run Stripper
DIRECT APPLICATION
Strips runs. Not lungs.
No PPE, no fumes. Epoxy kennel floors, drains, outdoor runs safe while animals are nearby.
TOXICITY · MEASURED, NOT MARKETED
1.7× safer than table salt.
Mother Ferment tests into the highest global safety category “practically non-toxic” across all three products. No VOCs. No endocrine disruptors. No carcinogens. No skin sensitizers. Safe on a cat’s tongue. Safe in a puppy ward.
- Zero VOCs
- Safe Around Cats
- EPA 25(b) Exempt
- GRAS Ingredients Only
ACUTE ORAL TOXICITY · LD₅₀ COMPARISON
Phenolic Cleaner (Pine-Sol type) — FATAL TO CATS
Quaternary Ammonium (“Quat”) — TOXIC · CATS
Bleach (1:32 dilution) — IRRITANT
Table Salt (NaCl) — BASELINE
Mother Ferment — PRACTICALLY NON-TOXIC
LONGER BAR = SAFER. BASED ON ACUTE ORAL LD₅₀ VALUES · GHS CATEGORY 5
SAFETY + PERFORMANCE · NO TRADEOFF
And unlike quats, it actually kills parvo.
100×
Stronger than Lysol on shelter pathogens — with the safety profile of our all-purpose cleaner.
96%
Cleaning efficacy at a 1:32 dilution — matches the bleach benchmark shelter medicine already uses.
5.69 log
Pathogen reduction (99.9998%). Independently verified against non-enveloped viruses by Eurofins.
3 SKUs
Replaces 40+ legacy chemicals bleach, quats, phenols, AHP, degreasers across the whole shelter.
ANIMALS · KENNEL · CAT WARD · SURGERY
01
End QAC toxicosis in cats
No more oral ulcers, drooling, fevers that mimic calici outbreaks. No wet-surface protocols.
02
Reduce CIRDC & URI flare-ups
Airway irritation from bleach and quat fumes is a known CIRDC co-factor remove it, reduce flare-ups.
03
Parvo & ringworm efficacy bleach-equivalent
No more “quat-works-except-on-the-ones-that-matter.” A single chemistry for everything.
STAFF · VOLUNTEERS · ADOPTERS
04
Safer for high-turnover staff and volunteers
No daily bleach-mixing. No PPE complexity. No respiratory claims. Easier to train, easier to retain.
05
Adoption experience, redesigned
No bleach smell. No watery-eyes walkthrough. Adopters meet calmer animals in a cleaner-feeling space.
06
One chemistry, one SOP, one closet
1:32 concentrate · no daily mixing · no lockboxes · donor-grade cost transparency per kennel-day.
A 90-day pilot across 10–20 shelters
Measured side-by-side against your current sanitation protocol on outbreak rates, staff incidents, cost per kennel-day, and adoption-area feedback. No rip-and-replace. Just evidence.
| SCOPE | DURATION | METRICS | OUTCOME |
| 10–20 shelters | 90 days | 4 KPIs | Rollout plan |
| Mix of municipal, private, and rescue. Dog kennel, cat ward, and surgery suite coverage. | One sanitation SOP. Full product kit. On-site support from our team & a DVM advisor. | CIRDC / URI rate · staff incident log · cost per kennel-day · length-of-stay delta. | A system-wide pathway informed by your data publishable alongside your shelter medicine team. |
We are not cleaning kennels.
We are removing harm from the system.