Biocidin Botanicals®, Inc. was founded in 1989 in response to the needs of physicians addressing opportunistic infections. The following year, Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratories (now Genova) was sent a sample of Biocidin® by a physician and had it tested for sensitivity against bacteria and yeast species. They found that Biocidin® was “the most powerful natural inhibitor of pathogenic organisms” that they had tested, and that it was “equal or more effective than traditional therapies”.