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MicroShield 360 Case Study of the UFC Performance Institute in

Las Vegas, NV

Testing Performed from June 22nd, 2018 to July 13th, 2018

Case Study: Effects of MicroShield 360 Antimicrobial within the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas, NV

Overview: From June 22nd, 2018 to July 13th, 2018 MicroShield 360 worked in conjunction with UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) headquarters in Las Vegas, Nevada to test the efficacy of MicroShield 360 antimicrobial product within their Performance Institute. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to compare contamination levels across 40 surfaces (20 treated and 20 control) during the course of 1 week tested at night then again in the morning. This equated to 560 samples over the 7 days. The objective is to compare the data to see if there is a reduction in contamination levels between the control and treated surfaces. Scope: MicroShield 360 used an ATP meter and swabs to test all surfaces. ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) measures surface contamination/bio-load levels and provides real-time insight through an RLU (relative light unit) reading. The higher the reading, the more contaminated the surface. MicroShield 360 uses 100RLU as its measure of “Very Clean” which is important in such high-risk environments where pathogens could have exposure to open wounds. MicroShield 360 was granted access to the facility every evening and again first thing in the morning for testing purposes. Testing was to be performed during these hours as it was designated hours least likely for people to be within the facility. We did this to control for external variables and their effects on the surfaces being tested. MicroShield 360 selected 20 different surfaces various hard, semi-soft and porous surfaces within the facility spanning weight training equipment, grappling mats and athletic training equipment. 20 items were marked with green tape (treated) and 20 items were marked with blue tape (control). A MicroShield 360 certified applicator electrostatically applied a disinfectant, allowed it to dry then followed up by electrostatically applying MicroShield 360 Antimicrobial to the items designated “treated”. To control for uniform testing templates were made for swabbing. The same tester would start on left side and swipe back and forth a total of 4 times while not rolling the swab. The swab was immediately put into the ATP meter and a reading was generated 15 seconds later. This data was then input into an excel spreadsheet under the respective item. Cleaning protocols within the facility were not altered during our testing time frames to show that MicroShield 360 would not be hindered by such practices. Its important to note that the original scope planned for 7 straight days but 2 days in we decided to postpone the remaining 5. We were in the middle of international fight week and the fighters were using the facility at all hours impeding on our ability to control for surface interaction. We then continued testing immediately following the weekend event when the facility went back to “normal” operation. We ran analytics including all 7 days and ran a study backing out the first 2 days. The final numbers in the results section account for all 7 day unless specifically indicated otherwise.

Results: 560 data samples stored in excel were analyzed to determine the difference between treated and control surfaces. The difference in total ATP defined as the summation of each test surface across all 7 days for both treated and control showed that MicroShield 360 treated surfaces reduced contamination by 50.30% (figure 1). This number jumps to 59% when excluding the 2 days of fight week. Average ATP scores for control surfaces were 398RLU while treated came in at 193RLU. Our database shows avg ATP scores across gyms/wrestling mats to be 820RLU which serves as a proxy for comparative reasons. To prove that MicroShield 360 is constantly reducing contamination levels we then analyzed the percent change in treated and control surfaces from the night to morning. We found that control surfaces saw an average reduction of 5.3% while MicroShield 360 treated surfaces saw a reduction of 49.19% or a 161% percent difference. This shows that by having MicroShield 360 on a surface it single handedly reduces contamination levels on that surface by >50%. Figure 1:

*The above chart shows “Gym Avg.-Untreated” which is a culmination of avg ATP test results from weight rooms and wrestling mats from 15+ Universities and commercial gyms that MicroShield 360 services (820RLU). It then shows UFC’s average contamination levels both before (398RLU) and after (193RLU) treatment for comparative purposes. Finally, we looked at the distribution of numbers around the 100RLU “Very Clean” metric. We found that of the 280 control surfaces reading <=100RLU showed up 42 times. For the 280 tested surfaces marked treated we saw 124 instances. This equates to a 195% improvement. Data: The following charts show the raw data numbers. Chart 1 is the non-treated (control) data set while chart 2 is the MicroShield 360 (treated) data set. This data was used to perform the analytics which generated the above information.

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UFC vs. Gym Proxy

UFC-Untreated UFC-Treated Gym Avg-Untreated

Facility Type: Training Facility ATP Post-Application

Item #

Color

Surface Area Area Description

7/3/2018

8:00pm

7/4/2018

5:00am

7/4/2018

8:00pm

7/5/2018

5:00am

7/8/2018

8:00pm

7/9/2018

5:00am

7/9/2018

8:00pm

7/10/2018 5:00am

7/10/2018 8:00pm

7/11/2018 5:00am

7/11/2018 8:00pm

7/12/2018 5:00am

7/12/2018 8:00pm

7/13/2018 5:00am

1 Blue Non Treated Area

Bench #1 (swipe middle bottom Template #3B) 362 262 437 442 806 638 68 129 85 34 106 152 235 227

2 Blue Non Treated Area

Bench #2 (swipe middle bottom Template #3B) 411 294 2,07

7 1,83

5 306 262 226 223 195 196 120 115 373 402

3 Blue Non Treated Area

White Striped Kettle Balls (swipe top of grip) 556 386 610 550 384 264 508 346 580 539 345 328 615 582

4 Blue Non Treated Area

Red Striped Kettle Balls (swipe top of grip) 412 310 434 736 831 1,53

3 500 313 183 126 118 105 269 366

5 Blue Non Treated Area

35lbs Dumbell (swipe top of grip even with the "F" in UFC) 288 129 700 519 62 70 123 103 82 25 55 62 303 275

6 Blue Non Treated Area

40lbs Dumbell (swipe top of grip even with the "F" in UFC) 144 183 858 982 123 151 558 593 213 129 178 156 355 402

7 Blue Non Treated Area

Right Yellow Grip Concept 2 Machine (swipe front of right grip) 481 382 242 479 203 687 254 189 87 70 223 175 254 316

8 Blue Non Treated Area

Left Yellow Grip Concept 2 Machine (swipe front of right grip) 608 358 853 648 300 256 126 112 150 144 128 123 1,028 1,070

9 Blue Non Treated Area

Right Elliptical Machine (swipe right pulse grip) 259 144 422 492 139 164 2,28

6 1,894 746 586 1,399 1,122 610 625

10 Blue Non Treated Area

Left Elliptical Machine (swipe right pulse grip) 173 80 289 169 109 95 37 39 52 36 131 119 238 227

11 Blue Non Treated Area

Middle Cabinet Handle (swipe right handle) 274 135 131 111 59 44 386 345 50 33 45 42 289 207

12 Blue Non Treated Area

Physical Therapy Table #1 (swipe top right corner Template #3B) 101 88 252 366 110 196 205 159 45 44 47 35 262 232

13 Blue Non Treated Area

Physical Therapy Table #2 (swipe top right corner Template #3B) 102 96 164 154 55 56 229 186 35 31 71 75 238 246

14 Blue Non Treated Area

Physical Therapy Biodex Machine (swipe top right handle) 234 165 178 150 184 298 145 126 89 127 46 37 288 266

15 Blue Non Treated Area

Physical Therapy Strength Machine (swipe top of right handle) 178 63 230 190 39 24 118 78 176 158 151 133 215 207

16 Blue Non Treated Area

Red Sparring Mat upstairs (swipe right of door, 3rd pad floor Template #3A)

1,334 426 1,26

2 936 399 339 552 451 230 195 247 213 378 325

17 Blue Non Treated Area

Octogan Ring Upstairs (swipe inside bottom of "C" in UFC)

2,366

1,929

2,211

1,670 654 548 632 389 414 234 539 578 792 686

18 Blue Non Treated

Tall Punching Bag #1 Right Row (swipe between "U" in UFC)

1,368

1,119

1,658

1,422 478 616 456 393 681 517 254 213 1,251 1,093

19 Blue Non Treated Area

Tall Punching Bag #2 Right Row (swipe top of black tape NO logo) 331 650 703 579 334 569 502 350 202 355 310 284 498 553

20 Blue Non Treated Area

Tall Punching Bag #3 Right Row (swipe between "U" in UFC)

1,265 990 782 497 326 622 632 517 523 313 223 189 612 731

Chart 2: Facility Type: Training Facility ATP Post-Application

Item #

Color

Surface Area Area Description

7/3/2018

8:00pm

7/4/2018

5:00am

7/4/2018

8:00pm

7/5/2018

5:00am

7/8/2018

8:00pm

7/9/2018

5:00am

7/9/2018

8:00pm

7/10/2018 5:00am

7/10/2018 8:00pm

7/11/2018 5:00am

7/11/2018 8:00pm

7/12/2018 5:00am

7/12/2018 8:00pm

7/13/2018 5:00am

1 Green

Treated Area

Bench #1 (swipe middle top Template #3B) 808 598 803 213 543 156 78 23 74 52 59 27 161 55

2 Green

Treated Area

Bench #2 (swipe middle top Template #3B) 161 78 381 235 215 76 40 33 73 37 85 42 10 7

3 Green

Treated Area

White Striped Kettle Balls (swipe top of grip) 395 184 310 105 362 159 502 29 263 119 174 97 284 101

4 Green

Treated Area

Red Striped Kettle Balls (swipe top of grip) 372 228 387 372 278 177 264 107 488 186 138 67 381 138

5 Green

Treated Area

35lbs Dumbell (swipe top of grip even with the "F" in UFC) 168 100 202 75 52 29 48 12 46 22 151 43 74 38

6 Green

Treated Area

40lbs Dumbell (swipe top of grip even with the "F" in UFC) 222 76 204 34 375 180 98 18 129 103 129 87 229 118

7 Green

Treated Area

Right Yellow Grip Concept 2 Machine (swipe front of left grip) 509 311 309 51 200 112 356 35 108 92 212 104 100 62

8 Green

Treated Area

Left Yellow Grip Concept 2 Machine (swipe front of left grip) 335 324 358 296 212 96 166 108 199 129 177 87 590 145

9 Green

Treated Area

Right Elliptical Machine (swipe left pulse grip) 40 16 152 62 123 27 193 35 118 17 130 25 51 27

10 Green

Treated Area

Left Elliptical Machine (swipe left pulse grip) 86 60 156 41 311 102 48 18 28 10 72 46 15 10

11 Green

Treated Area

Middle Cabinet Handle (swipe left handle) 224 155 122 54 318 157 209 86 137 8 80 22 71 15

12 Green

Treated Area

Physical Therapy Table #1 (swipe bottom right corner Template #3B) 346 77 115 87 180 117 218 46 26 34 44 20 191 66

13 Green

Treated Area

Physical Therapy Table #2 (swipe bottom right corner Template #3B) 42 36 92 50 18 16 106 34 22 21 91 62 18 9

14 Green

Treated Area

Physical Therapy Biodex Machine (swipe top left handle) 15 8 219 85 178 63 81 33 28 48 100 25 33 13

15 Green

Treated Area

Physical Therapy Strength Machine (swipe top of left handle) 7 9 60 10 22 8 41 20 331 45 44 15 22 10

16 Green

Treated Area

Red Sparring Mat upstairs (swipe left of door, 2nd pad floor Template #3A) 259 286 978 478 211 132 205 86 132 95 106 42 205 95

17 Green

Treated Area

Octogan Ring Upstairs (swipe inside bottom of "U" in UFC)

1,304 655 765 508 580 274 545 170 234 235 154 69 156 173

18 Green Treated Tall Punching Bag #1 Left Row (swipe

between "U" in UFC) 326 264 956 488 937 468 317 129 203 132 238 121 356 139

19 Green

Treated Area

Tall Punching Bag #2 Left Row (swipe between "U" in UFC) 290 298 689 333 781 245 212 84 1,055 212 487 165 442 257

20 Green

Treated Area

Tall Punching Bag #3 Left Row (swipe between "U" in UFC)

1,761 815 856 520 811 375 302 186 99 59 27 16 181 95

Thye below photos are of actual tested surfaces marked with the corresponding tape . Two of the photos show the template in use.