VeruTEK® Technologies Forms a Partnership with the Yale University Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering to Create New Green Chemistry Solutions

Bloomfield, Conn. – July 17, 2009 – VeruTEK® Technologies, Inc. (VTKT.PK) and Yale University’s Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering announced today that they have formed a partnership to promote adoption of green solutions in industry.  Under this agreement of the parties, the Center and VeruTEK® will jointly develop greener chemical syntheses and processes especially centered around plant-based materials and surfactants.

Dr. Julie Zimmerman, Acting Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, said “We look forward to mutually advancing green chemistry solutions to environmental problems with VeruTEK®’s generous support of our sustainable innovation activities.”

John Collins, Ph.D., CEO of VeruTEK®, said “VeruTEK® is excited to support the Center’s efforts to put green chemistry and green engineering theory into practice.  By focusing on practical, environmentally benign technologies, the Center will help catalyze adoption and implementation of green principles throughout our society and our economy for a more sustainable world.”

About VeruTEK® Technologies, Inc.
VeruTEK® (VTKT.PK) provides proprietary, patent-pending, green technology solutions for cleaning up the environment and other applications.  For more information, please visit www.verutek.com.

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VeruTEK® Technologies is a green technology company that develops sustainable and safe solutions for cleaning up toxic waste in the environment.  VeruTEK® has developed unique solutions for such soil and groundwater contaminants such as coal tar, creosote, PCBs, dioxins, fuels, MTBE, chlorinated solvents and metals.

John Collins, Ph.D. is  CEO of VeruTEK®.

Dr. John Collins received his doctorate from the University of California at Riverside in Soil Physical Chemistry. His doctoral research was completed at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory on sorption kinetics of transition metals in the natural environment at the DOE site in Aiken, South Carolina. Dr. Collins served two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer and Agricultural Extension Agent in a remote area of Nepal.

After development of the Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund, he was one of first scientists trained by EPA as a risk assessor. Subsequently, he worked on remediation and risk assessment at contaminated sites for DOD, DOE, EPA and Fortune 500 companies.

In 2006, he and Dr. George Hoag founded VeruTEK® Technologies, the first green technology company for the development of environmental solutions.

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