Blue California, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, has approved a new sterilization process that uses ozone to treat ingredients at their manufacturing facility in China. Many European nations, as well as Japan and Canada, have banned gamma ray sterilization, so the company has implemented a new sterilization process using ozones to ensure quality requirements are met without the use of irradiation or ETO treatments. This new sterilization process oxidizes and destroys bacteria using ozone.