Freitag, Januar 22nd, 2021

Benötigen Sie Ersatzteile? OEM ist der richtige Weg

Von Saumya Garg (aus dem Englischen übersetzt) Ultraviolette (UV) Systeme zur Desinfektion von Wasser bestehen aus mehreren entscheidenden Teilen, die für eine optimale Leistung sorgen. In den beigefügten Wartungsdokumenten dieser Systeme sind diese Teile eindeutig angegeben und die Intervalle für Austausch und Wartung aufgeführt. Kurz gesagt, die Teile, die häufig besondere Aufmerksamkeit erfordern, sind: Ein 


Freitag, August 21st, 2020

UVShield™ and Water Leak Detector

How do you know the UV lamp is on? Older UV systems used to have a view port you could look into. But pressing your eye against a lens and looking at a 3.5 kW UV lamp could be intimidating. Many systems have the UV chamber and electrical control panel in different rooms. Without walking 


Dienstag, Februar 18th, 2020

Impact of Water Main Breaks on Drinking Water for Food & Beverage Establishments

In the United States, potable water is supplied to homes and businesses via a network of 2.2 million miles of transmission lines and distribution mains. Given the importance of drinking water, the efficient operation of these pipelines is imperative to not only the normal functioning of our lives but also to maintain our health and 


Donnerstag, Oktober 3rd, 2019

Listeria: A Nightmare for the Ready-to-Eat Foods Industry

By Saumya Garg Spread over a period of about a year and a half, from January 2017 to July 2018, South Africa saw the deaths of 216 people and the hospitalization of over 800 people. The cause: Listeriosis caused by the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes. Listeriosis is a rare, yet serious food borne illness with a 


Mittwoch, Juni 19th, 2019

Operating temperature effects on UV treatment of sucrose (and other sugar syrups)

One of the most common but misunderstood applications for UV disinfection is for treating sugar syrups such as liquid sucrose. Sucrose is quite common in the beverage industry for use in flavored waters, carbonated beverages, teas, etc. While beverages made with sucrose syrups have some perceived consumer benefits compared to HFCS syrups, it is more 


Mittwoch, Mai 22nd, 2019

Is clean water a bigger threat than climate change?

By: Brian Grochowski On a recent CBS News interview, Andrew Wheeler, Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), stated that he believed “water issues are the largest and most immediate environmental and public health issue affecting the world right now. By water issues, I mean primarily clean and safe drinking water, marine litter 


Dienstag, Februar 5th, 2019

Déjà vu all over again – Romaine lettuce contaminated with E. coli from irrigation water

By: Brian Grochowski Back in June 2018, 210 people were infected with E. coli O157:H7 and 96 people were hospitalized, and five people died having consumed contaminated romaine lettuce. The source of contamination was found to be the canal water used to irrigate the lettuce. Fewer than six months after that outbreak, a similar event 


Dienstag, Februar 5th, 2019

Valcour Process Technologies to provide Aquionics UV technology to Cheese Producers

Aquionics has entered into a partnership agreement with Valcour Process Technologies for the distribution of its ultraviolet (UV) disinfection systems to cheese producers in the upper Midwest. The agreement enables Valcour to offer Aquionics UVEO and UVEO H products for pasteurized equivalent water applications across Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota and Wisconsin, where there is a 


Mittwoch, November 14th, 2018

The Benefits of UV Disinfection in Liquid Sugar Manufacturing

  In an increasingly regulated and safety-conscious market, the liquid sugar processing industry must meet ever more stringent quality standards. Concentrated sugar syrups have a high osmotic pressure, and although this prevents microorganisms from growing and reproducing, they can still survive in spore form and may grow once the syrup is diluted. Microbial growth can 


Dienstag, September 11th, 2018

Foodborne Illness is on The Rise. Can the FSMA Help?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that one in six Americans get a foodborne illness each year, which means that approximately 48 million people become sick due to one of the 31 pathogens. About 128,000 of those end up in the hospital, while 3,000 die. Of the31 pathogens, many are common and