A beer bar chain in Europe serves thousands of customers a day. These customers go to enjoy the fresh beer that comes out of the tap, rather than bottled or canned beer — which has a distinct“preserved” flavor to it. But there are challenges to maintaining freshness and safety standards in the fresh tap beer that these bars serve every day.

Problem

The problem with serving beer on tap is keeping the beer fresh and the beer tap system sanitized and bacteria-free. Bacteria are prone to grow on beer tap faucets, as beer is a target for bacteria more than many other beverages thanks to the high sugar content in the beer coming from the wheat and hops. Bacteria love to feed on this, making continuous disinfection of beer lines necessary for every bar manager. Bar staff usually disinfect beer lines by letting out the rest of the beer and then injecting chemical cleaning agents to disinfect the beer lines. Then they use tap water to flush the chemicals, but they can’t be sure that all chemical residue is removed. This is a danger to customers. If bars do not clean these beer lines well, customers can get sick or be hospitalized.

Solution

By implementing the Beer Line Disinfection System (BLDS) by BioSure, the bar chain was able to automate the disinfection of their beer lines among all of their branches using ozonated water. The BLDS uses patented Electrolytic Ozone Generation (EOG) to produce high-concentration ozone from water, ensuring safe beer in the most efficient and affordable way to customers. Once the ozonated water disinfects the beer line, it reverts to oxygen without leaving chemical residuals as chlorine does. The now clean-and-clear beer line is ready to serve beer without toxins or chemical residuals. The BioSure system takes only eight minutes to complete. Because the process produces no chemicals, the BLDS can sanitize beer lines multiple times a day without interrupting the beverage supply or stopping from serving customers. It’s also cost-effective as it only needs minimal water and electricity consumption. Therefore, it is one of the most affordable and safe disinfection options, offering a quick return on investment to bar owners.

Water dispenser manufacturers in Europe were integrating UV-C systems in these products to do sanitation for their drink dispensers. Beverage dispensers are prone to bacteria growing in the water that collects inside their tubing systems. To combat the problem, they have installed UV-C systems to do spot disinfection and eliminate bacteria at either end of the tubing.

Problem

UV-C light sanitation disinfects post-filtration water to an extent, but the effectiveness wears down over time because calcium and magnesium deposits build up inside the UV-C light tubing. These deposits block the UV-C light, causing light decay — thus reducing the effectiveness of the UV-C light sanitation system. The result is bacteria returns and customers who drink from these water dispensers are at risk of infection.

Solution

Water dispenser manufacturers are integrating ozonated water from the PFDS mini by BioSure in their water dispenser units to pump ozonated water into these water lines. The water from these dispensers gets disinfected automatically through an automated process that is timed. The PFDS mini system creates low concentration ozonated water to eliminate bacteria while making sure the water dispensed is potable. Water machine manufacturers are saving time, money, and hassle in not needing to add harmful chemical disinfection agents and UV-C light systems to their units that only “spot” disinfect. As the disinfection process is automated, manufacturers and consumers are getting peace of mind knowing that bacteria are no longer a threat inside water dispensers.

A large Asian tea shop chain has most of its tea shops located in the mid to South Asia region. They serve a variety of iced tea beverages at low prices that bring cool relief to customers in these hot and humid areas. The chain is expanding, quickly becoming one of the most well-known tea franchises in Asia and the world.

Problem

In Summer, the monsoon season in the region starts and the heat and humidity mean bacteria take over the teashop’s beverage water lines as they pump sweet and sugar-filled beverages that bacteria love. Water sources go through a filtration process to remove chemicals like chlorine before customers drink the tea. But bacteria can easily grow in this post-filtration water. The tea shops also need to collect post-filtration water in large containers for storage — with still water being another place that bacteria grows. The local government regularly inspects the ice in tea shops and measures the level of bacteria in the ice. Government regulators recently inspected each location for bacteria and most of the chains didn’t pass. To fight bacteria, staff had been washing the ice machine every week and doing a deep clean of the machines once a month.

Solution

The tea chain reached out to BioSure. They installed BioSure’s Ice Disinfection System (IDS) units in each of their tea shops which number in the hundreds. The system uses ozonated water to automate the ice disinfection process. Aside from bacteria in the ice, staff also realized there was biofilm buildup in the beverage water lines. So they installed BioSure’s PFDS units to eliminate biofilm in water lines and water containers. Now, staff has been able to free their time to serve customers better and create delicious beverages, rather than running disinfection processes to their numerous machines. The cost savings are immense, as manpower is freed up and there’s no need to store and mix dangerous chemical sanitizers. Both staff and customers are benefiting from the new ozonated water systems from BioSure.

Thanks to advances in ozone generation technology, disinfecting drink dispensers with the powerful oxidizing power of ozone has become a smarter option for many of these businesses. Ozonated water is safe and effective in keeping drink dispensers at your business free of harmful bacteria and free from unwanted chemical residues leftover by conventional cleaning chemicals. For more info on the advantages of cleaning with ozone, read our article: How Ozonated Water Works

Why ozone for drink dispensers?

Thanks to the reactivity of ozone on a molecular level, the O3 molecule begins breaking down almost instantly after being generated in the water supply. This leaves behind only clean, fresh water, and regular stable oxygen. Ozone’s reactivity is also why ozonated water is most effective as a disinfectant if it is used within the first five to ten minutes after being generated. For more info on how ozonated water is created, check out our article (link). 

While most quality drink dispensers are used seven to ten years on average, they must be cleaned regularly for a business to get the most out of their purchase. With ozonated water, these machines can be kept running constantly clean for customer safety and giving peace of mind to business owners. 

How to clean a drink dispenser with ozonated water

Below are basic instructions for how to integrate the power of ozone into the cleaning routine for your business’ drink dispenser(s). 

1. Daily Cleaning

The dispensers, nozzles, drain area, and external surface of the drink dispenser should be cleaned at least once at the end of each business day. Turn off the machine before disassembling the pieces from the front of the machine.

For basic daily cleaning, the nozzles, as well as any diffusers, which add the drink’s syrup to the carbonated water, should be detached from the machine. With ozonated water available on-premise, we recommend a two-part disinfectant process.

For plastic or metal nozzles and diffusers, they can be submerged in a plastic tub of active ozonated water from the Water Disinfection System (WDS) and left to sit for two to three minutes. Meanwhile, with an Ozone Spray Bottle (OSB) full of active ozonated water and a clean cloth, an employee can wipe down the exterior face of the drink dispenser. They should pay close attention to the drain area and the area around where the nozzle connects to the machine.

Any containers on top of the machine should also be disconnected and wiped down inside and out with the ozonated water solution. Give all implements several minutes to air dry before re-assembling the machine, making it ready for immediate use at the start of the next work shift. 

2. Weekly beverage line cleaning drink dispensers

Each week, it is recommended that any tubes supplying beverages be disconnected and thoroughly sanitized. This can be done by switching the water source to the ozonated water pipeline supplied by the PFDS series. Fill the entire pipeline and the equipment with ozonated water through the water discharge of the equipment, and switch the water source back to the beverage dispenser after the sanitation is completed. 

3. Monthly Cleaning

It is also important to clean the ice tray and ice dispenser, along with other parts of the machine at least every four weeks (or more frequently). Typically an ice machine may need to be deep cleaned every four to six months to ensure the ice cubes consumed by customers reach a proper hygiene standard. Using the IDS (Ice Disinfection System) by Biosure will make this process easier, as you only need to deal with the problem every half a year. This helps reduce the costs of labor, time, and money when deep cleaning if the ice machine is required.

Benefits of Ozonated Water

Some top-of-the-line water dispensers are even integrating ozone generation as part of the machine’s cleaning system. The ozone in the water supply will quickly dissipate and poses no threat to people drinking from the water dispenser provided the ozone is given sufficient time to break down, and not even affect the taste. 

In addition to the power of ozonated water as a potent anti-bacterial agent, in the long term, business owners will save money and space that would have been used on purchasing and storing cleaning chemicals. Using ozone as a cleaning agent will contribute to your business’s commitment to sustainability.

A business’ drink dispenser can be an important tool for promoting the public image of a business. This is especially true if the machine is located in front of the house for self-service by customers. While style and service capabilities are always important, cleanliness, both internally and on external surfaces, is no less important to the image a business provides to its customers. With the power of ozone-generation technology, there is no need to worry about the cleanliness of your equipment or the health of your customers being compromised ever again.

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This is not merely alarmist. As several global news stories have shown us, there are cases of edible ice contamination happening all around the world, and more often than we thought.

Ice Contaminations Cases Around the World

In the US in 2013, an outbreak of norovirus caused by dirty ice at a golf course in Phoenix sickened 80 people. In 2018, a reporter who looked at restaurant report cards in North Carolina every week saw “dirty ice machines” often cited in the public reports.

Meanwhile, in China in 2013, ice cubes at fast-food chains were found to be riddled with 13 times more bacteria than toilet water. And in Hong Kong in 2017, edible ice samples collected under the routine Food Surveillance Programme of the Centre for Food Safety (CFS) were found to contain excessive coliform bacteria, organisms that are present in the environment and in the feces of all warm-blooded animals and humans. 

You may think European countries probably apply striker regulations and prevention toward food safety. However, studies done in Europe have shown dirty ice cases as well. In 2017, an undercover study by the BBC investigated iced beverages in the U.K. and found that out of 30 samples taken from three different fast-food restaurants, more than half were contaminated with fecal coliform bacteria. In 2013, a newspaper did an experiment that collected ice from ten well-known fast-food chains and announced that in six out of ten locations, those ice cubes “contained higher levels of bacteria than the water samples taken from toilet bowls at the same establishments”. 

How To Ensure The Safety of Edible Ice

Most people don’t give a second thought when they use ice. But those real-life cases above reveal the potential harms of dirty ice to our health and even to the public health system. It’s a little-known fact that ice machines that produce the ice we drink could potentially be a home for all manner of harmful bacteria, viruses, mold, and other microorganisms.

Ice should always be manufactured and handled with the same strict standards that we use to treat the rest of our food. Since more and more research has shown the importance of edible ice safety following numerous cases of edible ice contamination happening in the world, governments have made regulations for ice manufacturing and handling to make sure that edible ice must be produced, stored, and transported in clean and sanitary conditions. Ice manufacturers and food and beverage businesses such as restaurants, hotels, and bars, must monitor the cleanliness and hygiene of employees, use properly cleaned and maintained equipment, and use water that is safe and sanitary.

In addition to the above precautions, ozone is a powerful solution to help prevent bacteria from getting into ice that you or your customers consume.

The Magic of Ozone 

Ozonated water, which is usually produced by electrolytic ozone generators (E.O.G), is one of the strongest disinfectants known to mankind. It is an effective and fast disinfectant. Compared to general chlorine-based disinfectants, ozone disinfection speed is 3,000 times faster and 50 times stronger. Ozone water is also one of the safest disinfectants. It’s 100 percent natural, which makes it perfectly safe for human beings as well as for the environment in the right amounts. 

When it comes to ice and drinking water, the CDC has proclaimed that ozone is a safe and effective sanitation method, protecting against even some of the most resistant microorganisms.

Electrolytic ozone treatment works by combining electricity with water through an electrolytic ozone generator (E.O.G). It’s considered a safe and effective disinfectant alternative to chemicals for food safety applications. Including decontamination of water and sanitization of kitchen equipment, ozone is also very effective in eliminating biological matter in the water like bacteria or viruses, killing them instantly. 

After filtration, the water goes through electrolysis and the chemical ionization is finished. This helps remove any particulate matter that was created in the process. The final water supply is then completely free of impurities. 

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Unclean beer lines can not only ruin the taste of beer but also put customers’ health in danger. Dirty dispensers can make customers sick or even seriously ill. There have been incidents where customers have fallen ill after drinking contaminated beer at bars and restaurants — a nightmare scenario for a bar or restaurant owner. Chemical burns from caustic cleaning agents have also been an issue, resulting in lawsuits. Incidents like these can cost a considerable amount of money in medical and legal fees and, just as importantly, can cost your reputation. As a customer, we should never feel that our health might be in jeopardy for enjoying a cold beer.

Running the Risks of a Dirty Line

Dirty beer not only tastes terrible, but it’s also dangerous to drink. Contaminants such as bacteria, mold, and yeasts can build up in beer lines over time. Limescale and beer stone make beer muddy, while mold and bacteria can leave beer sandy, stringy, and even toxic. People have reported getting sick after having a sour pint at a bar. Guests are likely to write the bar off if they had consumed a beer pumped through a dirty line.

The Dangers of Chemical Sanitation

Most bars and restaurants know the importance of regularly cleaning their beer lines. But while most local health codes stipulate the frequency of cleanings needed, not all of them outline cleaning methods or best practices for cleaning equipment. In many cases, this leads to draft beer system owners using chemical sanitization methods. Without caution, unsafe chemical sanitization can also be deadly to your business and your customers. Consider these cautionary tales:

• A woman in Massachusetts was burned by the acidic solution used to clean beer lines that a distributor failed to clear thoroughly after using it to clean the beer line.

• An Ohio man alleged that he suffered burns and had to have parts of several internal organs surgically removed after consuming contaminated beer. 

• In 2017, a brewery lost USD $750,000 jury verdict because a man fell dangerously ill right after consuming toxic beer from the brewery. He was then hospitalized for 6 days and lost 25 percent of his stomach lining. They later determined the cause was acidic chemicals that the brewery used to clean the beer lines.

There are many more “hot beer” horror stories like these and they are all too easy to find. In fact, many companies set aside around $15,000 USD each year to settle lawsuits from chemical burns. 

Using chemical solutions to clean pipelines means employees need to be extra thorough when rinsing off the residuals left by the cleaning process. This is time-consuming and leaves room for human error. Pub and restaurant owners stand to lose valuable business during chemical sanitization processes.

The Powers of Chemical-free Ozone Sanitization

Ozone is a natural molecule that can oxidize everything it comes in contact with. When oxidized, harmful microorganisms and chemicals break down into harmless compounds. This oxidation ability makes ozone the most effective disinfectant available for sanitizing drinking water and food preservation.

Using ozone beer line disinfection systems help prevent lawsuits through chemical burns that customers incur when bars and restaurants use toxic cleaning agents. Not only this, but ozone disinfection for beer lines saves staff time, money, and effort. Electrolytic ozone beer line disinfection systems run on only electricity and tap water. Using electrolytic ozone beer line disinfection systems means bar owners don’t need to manage a cleaning crew or spend extra money cleaning up dangerous chemicals.

When implementing ozone disinfection systems, bar staff do not need to close or pause the beer supply. Ozone turns into harmless oxygen as soon as it gets into contact with contaminants, leaving no harmful chemicals in the beer. Guests can enjoy a tasty brew with peace of mind while the tap keeps pouring — a win-win for customers and pub owners.

The Best Beer Line Disinfection System

The BioSure ozone cleaning kit (OCK) uses patented Electrolytic Ozone Generation to produce high-concentration ozone from water. BioSure makes sure you serve safe beer in the most efficient and affordable way to customers.

How BioSure Professional Sanitizes Beer Lines

BioSure’s OCK pumps ozone to your beer line to eliminate contaminants before serving to your customers. The BioSure OCK is optimized in many ways to ensure that it is:

The Safest

BioSure uses patented electrolytic ozonation technology to produce ozonated water. Once the ozone disinfects the beer line, it reverts to oxygen, without leaving chemical residuals as chlorine does. The now clean-and-clear beer line is ready to serve beer without toxins or chemical residuals. 

The Fastest

The BioSure system takes only eight minutes to complete. Because the process produces no chemicals, the OCK can sanitize beer lines multiple times a day without interrupting the beverage supply.

Cost Effective

BioSure systems only need minimal water and electricity consumption. Therefore, it is one of the most affordable options and a quick return on investment.

The Easiest

Bar owners don’t need to use additional cleaning tools or chemicals with the BioSure system. There are three different sanitation programs in the system which are specifically designed for cleaning beer lines and beverage machines.

Top Quality

While keeping your beer safe for consumption, BioSure eliminates the use of undesirable chemicals and the creation of by-products during sanitization and ensures the delivery of clear beer at its best quality and taste.

Drinking It All In

Tainted beer is harmful to your customers and your business. Regular cleaning for your beer line is essential. But choosing and implementing sanitization is crucial. At best, bar owners lose customers; at worst, you would be responsible for someone’s life. Choosing the right disinfectant system for beer lines is critical. Ozone is the safest, most affordable, and easiest way to sanitize your beer line over the long term. Ozone sanitization is also time-efficient and does not interrupt your beer supply. The system is easy to use, and it cleans beer with no chemical residuals. Using just water and electricity, you can serve the best quality beer in town. Cheers!

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• Industry: Coffee chain
• Application purpose: Maintain ice hygiene standards and to avoid the breeding of biofilm and mold in the ice maker
• Product: IDS Automatic ice cube disinfection system
• Machine performance: Up to 3,000 Ib/day (ice machine capacity)
• Ozone generation: Up to 50 mg/hr (+-10%)
• Size: W56 X D225 X H180 (mm)

Problem

Taiwan is located in the subtropical zone, meaning hot and humid summers account for nine months of the year. With Taiwanese cities being among the most densely populated in the world, the combination of heat and humidity, and the hustle and bustle of urban life have made coffee shops great places to decompress with a cold drink for the local population.

Coffee Shop

Louisa Coffee is a new coffee chain that’s seen explosive growth over the last few years. They currently have more than 400 branches nationwide, providing high-quality coffee, great service, and a comfortable environment at reasonable prices. For customers, this brand represents both quality and affordability. The brand’s emphasis on quality control has been a large part of their success, and they are building customer loyalty as a premier coffee chain. 

Louisa has done this by offering iced coffee, iced tea, and smoothies as their main products during Taiwan’s intensely hot and humid summers. In order to grow steadily and sustainably, this new chain of coffee shops is unwilling to compromise on hygiene, with the quality of the ice being just as important as the drink itself. They know building goodwill and paying attention to customer needs are critical to their continued growth. Therefore they needed a solution to ensure hygiene standards are met with every single cube of ice served.

But ice machines are a hotbed for bacteria, mold, and food-borne pathogens. This is due to numerous causes such as biofilm peeling off from inside tubes, cross-contamination from ice scoops and other sources, and falling pathogens from the air when the ice tank is open. There have been several shocking news reports all over the world detailing just how dirty ice can be from major fast-food chains and restaurants once tested against other dirty places like toilet seats. Having painstakingly built up a reputation for being a quality brand, Louisa could not afford to take any chances with similar reports of dirty ice.

Solution

After carefully assessing several vendors of ice disinfection solutions, Louisa Coffee chose BioSure IDS (Ice Disinfection System) to ensure ice served to customers is safe to consume. 

BioSure engineers have studied the rigorous process of ice machine hygiene in depth. After years of research and development, they continue to iteratively improve products to tackle the challenges that businesses face in keeping their ice clean and edible. The IDS features a fully automatic design to achieve continuous disinfection, greatly reducing the risk of failed inspections and giving businesses peace of mind that there won’t be a need to worry about sanitation human error.

How it works

The IDS is equipped with a professional commercial-grade ozone generator that can efficiently sanitize through producing high-concentration ozonated water and controlling it at a lower concentration for continuous sanitation without affecting the machine life and taste of ice. After sanitizing, the ozone it produces is quickly reduced to water and oxygen, with no by-products or residues.

Test bacteria counts comparison test in S brand Shanghai factory

For the food industry, the taste is of the utmost importance. The ice made after being equipped with the IDS has been tested by professionals at food research institutes and guaranteed not to affect the taste of the ice and beverages. 

It has been tested with all major international brand ice makers. On top of this, integration of the IDS with on-premise equipment does not affect its materials or mechanical parts. It’s safe for employees to work around the ice maker without worrying about off-gassing. This is why the water bottling industry also uses ozonated water as the industry standard.

Results

Louisa’s insistence on quality has been critical to their growth and continues to be one of their brand pillars. The BioSure IDS was born to meet these expectations. Once the BioSure IDS is installed in a commercial ice maker, it sanitizes immediately after turning it on. Tests done in the Food Industry Research & Development Institute in Taiwan have proved that the internal waterway and surface of the ice maker maintain a sterilization efficiency greater than 99.999%. The IDS system also ensures that the stores meet the legal health standards and helps to avoid liabilities such as fines involved with random site tests.

The food and beverage industry is very satisfied with this result, making the BioSure IDS an invaluable tool for businesses looking to meet high-quality standards for their customers. 

BioSure Professional is the leader in the industry applying electrolytic ozone generators in ice makers, with plans to roll out the IDS in more than 400 food and beverage businesses in the near future. 

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BioSure’s patented technology produces ozone, the strongest food-grade disinfectant approved by the FDA. When integrated with an ice machine under clean settings, the resulting ice is completely disinfected and free of microorganisms, including E. coli, bacteria, et al. Ozonated water converted to solid ice is 100% safe for consumption and use in high-quality drinks and food industry products. Additionally, using O3 solid ice is among the best methods for the cold storage of food products as the ozone treatment helps maintain high levels of hygiene and prolongs freshness.

Ozone – More Than Just Safe

Using aqueous ozone provides numerous benefits for ice manufacturers, as well as and food and beverage businesses such as restaurants, catering services, central kitchens, and hotels. BioSure’s Ozone Ice Machine Disinfection Systems ensures safe, and clean edible ice cubes, and makes the sanitation of ice-making equipment simple and effective. Benefits from using ozonated ice in the food industry include:

1. Cost-saving
   Ozone ice reduces costs associated with cleaning crews that use chemical solutions to stop microbial growth. Instead of training workers in methods of keeping commercial ice machines sanitized with harsh chemicals, ozone water treatment is a one-stop solution for safe and clean ice machines — including commercial ice machines — and ice storage bins that hold formed ice. The ozone microbubbles created when water is infused with gaseous ozone effectively clean cracks and crannies that might otherwise be neglected and turn into breeding spots for microbial growth.
   
2. Ozone is faster and better at killing microbes
   Ozone eliminates bacteria faster than traditional disinfectants like chlorine and is some 50 times more effective at doing so, making the purchase of an ozone-treated water system a smart investment for any business in the food industry. Ozone from a BioSure system is also generated onsite, again saving costs and lessening the environmental impacts of storing, transporting, and distributing chemicals.
   
3. Reduced risks
   Even after thorough training, people sometimes still make mistakes in the processes of mixing chemicals for cleaning. Such mistakes can result in toxic chemical reactions and or chemical residue. Cleaning crews could potentially damage ice machines by regularly cleaning them by hand. Ozone eliminates these risks in one swoop.
   
4. More environmentally friendly
   Ozone will revert back to oxygen (in ozone gas bubbles) and no harmful substances are created after the reaction. Ozone generation leaves no chemical residue, and it has no taste or smell after reverting back to oxygen. Ozone generation has no effect on the pH balance of water and causes no negative effects or irritation to your mouth, nose, or skin. The producing process that creates O3 has no known carcinogenic byproducts, allowing it to be discharged directly without causing any environmental pollution. And remember, “residual ozone” is simply pure oxygen!
   
5. Reliability
   When considering the alternatives, an ozone treatment system is clearly the best choice for the future growth of businesses that serve cold beverages; be they cafes, restaurants, or bars. Such establishments have a legal responsibility to keep their customers safe, but having a customer become sick from contaminated ice is more than just a legal issue. All the hard years of work you’ve put into building your brand and reputation could be irredeemably dented by something as tiny as a microscopic amount of bacteria. But those business owners who use ozone need not worry about E. coli or microbial growth as ozonated water and ozonated ice are 100 percent free of such pathogens. Ozone is a solution that allows both business owners and customers to have peace of mind when enjoying a cold drink on a hot summer day.

Aside from commercial ice machines, ozone is used in many other fields as well, including in the food sanitation industry as well as for medical, and dental applications among others. In the electrolytic ozone manufacturer field, BioSure Professional provides professional solutions that apply advanced ozone technologies in food safety and hygiene, water treatment, healthcare, and other industries. BioSure’s products are committed to providing safe and effective food safety and hygiene solutions to minimize food safety risks. To learn more about BioSure’s ozone ice machine systems, please visit our official website: biosureozone.com.cn

BioSure: Innovative technology built to work, and built to last

Biotek Environmental Science Ltd (BES Group) has been developing electrolytic technology to produce highly concentrated dissolved ozone and high purity hydrogen for both household and professional applications since the firm was established in 1988. Our goal is to improve the environment that we live in by utilizing the benefits of our superior electrolytic technology. Our products are categorized into three categories and brands. Powered by BES® as an original design manufacturer, BioSure Professional® for commercial applications, and Biolux® for home.

How Can We Ensure Our Safety? 

Kate, a high-end California restaurant owner, found herself in hot water after the biofilm was found in a water line, contaminating the drinking water. Despite rigid hygiene measures and extensive staff training, her restaurant still received complaints from customers who came down with food poisoning. It’s caused her to lose money by refunds and compensation, and the bad online reviews are permanent. In salvaging her restaurant, she looked into several sanitation methods for a cost-effective sanitation process that can ensure the drinking water is safe to serve.

UVC as a Chemical-free Sanitation Method

There are several sanitation processes for restaurants and central kitchens. Each can achieve different levels of disinfection. Ozonation and UV Irradiation are two widely used disinfection methods with applications in food and beverage, healthcare, water line disinfection, and other industries. Both methods are chemical-free. UV sanitation uses UV lamps or UV chambers to direct UV rays in an area to reduce the spread of bacteria. For this reason, UV lamps are often called germicidal UV lamps. These germicidal UV lamps use ultraviolet light to neutralize a virus, but it’s effective if the virus is directly exposed to the radiation.

Some of these UV lamps generate ozone. UV Ozone generators can emit byproducts that, when inhaled, can be irritating to the airway, much like corona discharge ozone generators. Although UV light systems effectively kill many germs, the system must be used along with chlorine for residential pool sanitation, and these UV systems are expensive, ranging from $500 to $2000. 

What is Ozone Sanitation?

Ozone is a highly reactive oxidizer that oxidizes almost everything from inorganic compounds to bacteria. Ozonation uses ozone to diminish infection and viruses and bacteria. Due to its highly reactive properties, the ozone used reverts back to oxygen immediately after disinfection, leaving it safe and with no residual ozone or other compounds. When ozonation is used to disinfect water, it doesn’t create a bad “aftertaste” as chlorine does. On the contrary, it is widely used specifically for its odor removal properties.

Ozonated water has come on top as a more effective sanitation method compared to UV irradiation. A study from the National Key Research and Development Program of China showed that the toxin degradation rate of ozone was higher than UV irradiation by more than 11 percent. This is because, during ozonation, inorganic and organic compounds are both oxidized. This means that ozone can reduce the toxicity of pesticides to produce better than UV irradiation.

Electrolytic ozone is one of the best ways to create ozone because it generates ozone with less energy. This is a method whereby tap water is charged with electricity to infuse it with ozone at up to 28% ppm, a high enough concentration to make it lethal against bacteria and viruses, but safe for humans to use. Using this cutting-edge technology, electrolytic ozone can be affordable, stable, and easy to manage. The newest ozone creation technologies produce high-purity reactive ozone without polluting the environment with the byproduct of nitrogen oxide. 

Ultra Violet (UV) light is a form of electromagnetic radiation. There are three types of UV light. UV-A and UV-B are the types of radiation that pass through the atmosphere and hit up our beaches, which give some of us a lovely tan while giving others a painful sunburn. Luckily, the atmosphere absorbs most of the third type – UV-C, the highest-energy and most dangerous of the three. Employing UV irradiation is a well-known sanitation method. It kills germs by hitting them with the most energetic type of UV light, UV-C.

Ozonated Water vs UV Light Sanitation

Ozone is the Best Chemical-Free Sanitation Method

Weighing up all the pros and cons, it is clear that ozonation is a more effective disinfection option than UV irradiation, thanks to its permeability, efficacy, and practicality. UV irradiation is highly effective under the right conditions, but ozonated water has a high reactivity that results in speedy sanitation without producing any byproducts. Meanwhile, UV irradiation requires microbes to be exposed to intense light for an extended period of time. Ozone continues to play an important role in disinfection for commercial and home applications that require sanitized water quality via environmental and chemical-free disinfection solutions. By harnessing electrical energy, and retarding the creation of oxygen, high levels of ozone can be produced without the byproducts that can harm us.

Electrolytic ozone is a step ahead of corona discharge ozone systems because the electrolytic methods do not produce harmful ozone gas byproducts, making it superior to both UVC and chemical sanitation agents.

A compact, easy-to-use, and effective ozone disinfection system

The BioSure Post-Filtration Disinfection System is one of the best systems on the market. This system uses patented electrolytic ozone to provide instant and residual-free sanitation with simple installation. This easy-to-use system can keep beverage makers, water coolers, or dental unit waterlines clean and safe.