Howorth’s Biotechnology division was established ‘to service ever-increasing demand for effective, safe, state-of-the-art vapour-phase fumigation systems, whether to control healthcareassociated infections, or eradicate microorganisms’.
Its BioGen DVHP (Dry Vaporised Hydrogen Peroxide) system provides decontamination of all equipment and facilities, using a dry vapour. With no surface wetting, all equipment, including electrical items, can be decontaminated in situ. Howorth says the technology ‘guarantees total surface and airborne elimination of all pathogens – viruses, germs, spores and bacteria’. BioGen DVHP decontamination provides ‘up to and including a 6 log (10-6) kill against pathogens’, including MRSA and Clostridium difficile.
‘Real-time process control’ obviates the need to dehumidify the area, ‘while ensuring a successful kill in any environmental conditions’, so that facilities can be reoperational ‘with total assurance of a fully validated pathological kill, in industry-leading time’.
