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Disinfection
Disinfecting is a collective term for all the procedures used to eliminate or reduce the number of the (micro)organisms in the environment.
Disinfection's
three components
The three components highlighted below are, in our opinion, the most important for the success of disinfection. You can read more about the factors influencing disinfection in the recommendation of the National Epidemiological Center.
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Treatment time
Careful determination of the treatment time is essential, which requires prior knowledge of the room to be treated and the infectious agents.
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Disinfecting agent
The most disinfectants used today, disinfection by oxidation . When using them, special attention should be paid to the appropriate concentration .
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Procedure
The method is the method of application used for the particular disinfection solution. This can be very different in many cases, as it takes into account the disinfection medium, the purpose to be achieved, etc.
If the conditions for disinfection are not met, the desired germ count, toxin-free food or pest-free environment cannot be guaranteed.
Microorganisms, toxins, compounds, pests
Who is the opponent during disinfection?
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Bacteria
Bacteria are single-celled, non-nucleated microorganisms, usually a few micrometers in size. One milliliter of surface water contains one million bacterial cells. There are ten times as many bacteria in the human body as there are human cells. Most of the bacteria are harmless or useful, but there are also some pathogenic (pathogenic) bacteria that cause infectious diseases, such as cholera, MRSA, syphilis, anthrax, leprosy, or the pathogen.
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Viruses
Viruses are the smallest known microorganisms. They have characteristics of both living and non-living matter. Once in a suitable cell, the virus can replicate itself in hundreds of thousands of copies, causing illness and damage to the host. Examples of diseases caused by viruses are AIDS, smallpox, influenza, epidemic polio, and rabies.
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Fungus
Fungi are unicellular or multicellular organisms, usually colonial, made up of eukaryotic cells that form an independent country in the living world. Currently approx. We know 100,000 species, but it is estimated that there may be as many as 1.5 million previously unknown fungal species. Many species of fungi can cause infectious diseases and mycoses. In addition, fungi can also harm animals and humans through toxic compounds.
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Mycotoxins
Mycotoxins are secondary metabolic products of microscopic fungi. Mycotoxins are present not only in cereals (wheat, corn) but also in products of animal origin (meat, milk, eggs). Food safety is also affected by the raw materials used to feed animals, as toxins (toxic substances) in food can cause illness for the consumer, ie people.
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Chemical compounds
An entity formed by two or more components held together by chemical bonds between its elements. Certain undesirable compounds, such as scopolamine or atropine, may need to be neutralized due to their high toxicity.
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Insect pests
One third of the world’s grain crop is destroyed during storage, much of which can be attributed to warehouse pests. Extremely many varieties have already been identified (toothed grain beetle, corn borer, rice weevil, etc.) that damage grain in various ways. The damage they cause can be significantly reduced by using disinfection.
In order for effective disinfection, a number of conditions must be considere.
Factors influencing disinfection:
the time of exposure, the purpose and object of disinfection, the degree of contamination, the type of micro-organism, the number of micro-organisms, their resistance, the properties of the surface and medium to be treated, the temperature and the humidity. (source: National Center for Epidemiology)
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Contact
It must be ensured that the disinfectant and the microorganisms do come into contact with one another.
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Maintenance
You can maintain the absence of contamination by periodically or continuously repeated disinfection processes, depending on the effects of the disinfectant and by preventing re-contamination.
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Contact time
Contact time should be long enough to maintain the contact between the disinfectant and the microorganism for a sufficient period of time.
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Expectations
In cases where to constant sterile environment is necessary, repeated tests for contaminations on a regular basis, to modify and fine-tune the procedure employed or higher level of contamination safety precautions must be applied.
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Concentration
In order to boost efficacy and to avoid any damage to the object treated, in addition to observing correct contact times, it is highly important to use a disinfectant of the correct concentration.
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Surfaces
Uncleanliness can reduce the efficacy of disinfection or can even prevent it. The scrupulous cleaning of the instruments, objects and surfaces beforehand is a crucial phase of the disinfection process, removing most of the physical contamination, making surfaces wettable.
We present in four steps
the disinfection process performed with Exozone®
As each disinfection task is unique and the above-mentioned factors greatly influence the disinfection work, the process presented in the following four sections cannot be considered as a professionally accurate recommendation, it is only a general description of the process.
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Room preparation
Seal the rooms where disinfection is performed. Install ExOzone® equipment and, if necessary, ozone concentration sensors. Follow the safety protocol developed by professionals.
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Select a treatment program
Use customizable treatment programs to achieve your desired goal. With a programmable control unit, a completely personalized ozone technology is achieved.
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Treatment
During treatment, the ExOzone® device converts oxygen in the ambient air to ozone, which performs pharmaceutical-level disinfection.
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After treatment
There are no hazardous substances left in the treated room after treatment, but for safety reasons we recommend the use of safety ozone sensors. No post-cleaning is required before the room can be used. To verify that the desired goal is achieved, we recommend that you take samples for laboratory testing.