What is Ozone
Ozone (O3) is Mother Nature's gift for safer, more effective sanitation. Ozone is the most powerful naturally occurring agent – the same element that cleanses the Earth's atmosphere, balancing the bacteria population and neutralizing harmful chemicals. Ozone exhibits a short 20 minute half-life and it reverts to oxygen rapidly because it is simply oxygen (O2) with an extra oxygen atom. Thus it quickly kills pathogens and does not build up on surfaces the way detergents and chemicals can. In 1991, the US Environmental Production Agency (EPA) confirmed that ozone is the most effective primary disinfection available for drinking water.
Ozone Creation:
Singlet Oxygen (O) + Oxygen (O2) = Ozone (O3)
Ozone Dispersion:
Ozone (O3) + Bacteria, odor, pesticides = Oxygen (O2)
Benefits of Ozone
Ozone readily decomposes into oxygen and leaves no harmful residues, by-products, or odors, and therefore allows fabrics to be rinsed more thoroughly in the same amount of time.
Ozone's bactericidal action prevents superbugs from developing by destroying the drug resistant genes
Ozone's Bacterial Disinfection Mechanism
Ozone readily decomposes into oxygen and leaves no harmful residues, by-products, tastes, or odors, and thus does not require a final rinse. It is US FDA approved for direct food contact and is the most effective and safest disinfectant available.
Ozone’s bactericidal action prevents superbugs from developing by destroying the drug resistant genes
WHAT IS BIOFILM?
Biofilm/bioslime is a complex, dynamically interactive multicellular community protected within a heterogeneous exopolysaccharide matrix. Its formation results in the genesis or perpetuation of infection, enhancement of inflammation, and tissue damage or death. Industrial financial losses result from biofilm/ bioslime formation; however, the consequences in the medical realm are equally devastating. General antiinfective strategies are aimed at rapidly killing planktonic forms of microorganisms without specifically targeting the sessile forms that perpetuate their planktonic brethren.
The ultimate prevention of infections is to completely eradicate the reservoir sources of biofilm formation. Ozone's molecular oxidation capabilities, effective for microdestruction, can be employed in a CIP process of a water distribution system and is the best approach against biofilm buildup and prevention of microbial colonization, the source of biofilm.
While heat disinfection is costly, chemicals can leave residual and UV cannot be reliable, ozone has provided the economically lasting solution to sustain risk-free water supply system for medical operations.
DEAL WITH BIOFILM BEFORE IT STARTS
An adequate design and cleaning of water distribution systems at medical sites are greatly important in the reduction of biofilm formation. It should be mentioned that biofilm, once formed, is notoriously difficult to remove. The remarkable thing about biofilm is it can form very rapidly despite water treatments in place to control bacteria and contamination levels.
It is documented knowledge neither heat nor chemical disinfectants are able to eradicate biofilm, It is known that microorganisms, in particular bacteria and viruses, tend to develop immunity to chemicals when used over a prolonged period of time. However, there are no microorganisms known to have developed a resistance to ozone to date. Ozone's strong oxidation properties can completely eliminate biofilms.