Improve Shelf Food Life - Advanced Air Hygiene

Advanced Air Hygiene have noticed how contaminated by bacteria, moulds, yeasts and viruses causes premature product spoilage. They have created a solution to help make shelf food last as long as possible through UV-C air hygiene solutions. This helps to reduce microbial contamination by up to 99 %.

There are many advantages to UV-C technology in the food industry. Some of these are:

• Extended shelf life
• Customer complaints are reduced
• Fewer product returns
• Improved freshness
• Contributes to HACCP and improves hygiene standards
• Quality assurance
• Fewer product losses – more profit!

Disinfection systems from Advanced Air Hygiene work on a purely physical basis. They ensure effective and continuous disinfection. This dispenses with the need for chemical cleaners that harm the environment saves operators additional cleaning costs.

Their disinfection systems are incredibly low maintenance. As they near the end of their life, Advanced Air Hygiene will be pleased to attend to their replacement to ensure constant, optimal disinfection, allowing you to continue getting the best air disinfection possible.

They currently work in the following industries:

• Bakery
• Butchery and Meat
• Fish
• Cheese  

For information on their products they have available, visit their website or contact them for more information.

UV-C in the Fruit and Vegetable Industry - Advanced Air Hygiene

Advanced Air Hygiene have identified the problem and created a solution for the prevention of cross contamination of bacteria in the fruit and vegetable industry.

The Problem
Over the last 50 years global demand for fruit and vegetables has significantly increased especially in high-income countries as people start to focus more and more on the health benefits. Due to the perishable nature of these products one of the biggest obstacles to meeting this increase in demand is from food spoilage. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations has estimated that about 25% of all worldwide food production is lost after harvesting due to insects, bacteria and spoilage. Economic losses due to insects and microbes have been estimated to be as high as $17 billion yearly in the US alone.

Depending on the specific fruit or vegetable and their individual growing and harvesting conditions they can arrive at the storage, processing and packing stages contaminated to varying levels by these micro-organisms. Over a short period of time they multiply until there are millions of them in the air, causing cross-contamination of nearby products, accelerating their spoilage and of greater concern potential health issues for workers who are ingesting large quantities of these microorganisms.

It is during these stages where the UV-C products supplied by Advanced Air Hygiene can really help reduce the levels of these airborne spoilage bacteria resulting in a longer product shelf-life and improved health of workers.


The Solution
Consistent disinfection of the circulating air in all production and storage areas with the stand-alone circulating air units AirStream C or AirTube C or as additional equipment for ventilation systems in the form of AirStream , and AirStream V for circulating air evaporators. This regular cleaning of the air stops the colonies of microorganisms from developing into huge numbers helping to maintain the health of workers and preventing products from being further contaminated.

In addition to this using their product decontamination tunnels as close to the product packing stage of the process will improve the product shelf life further by destroying many of the microorganisms that are already on the surface of the food.


A further application is surface disinfection with the SurTech system or an integrated solution with the Compact lamp IP 65.

For more information and to see their products, look on Advanced Air Hygiene's website or contact them today.

Improving your Employees' Health with Advanced Air Hygiene

Sick days can be troublesome in many workplaces. It always appears that a colleague or employee is off sick when you need them the most. A great way to improve the health of you and your employees is by opting for Advanced Air Hygiene.

Contaminated air coming through your ventilation in the workplace can be an often overlooked common cause of many health problems. UV-C Technology cleanses the air coming in through your ventilation systems to bring any microbes down to almost zero.

Our research on the affects of UV-C on health found that having cleaner air in the work place, which is one of the places that you spend the majority of your time, can have really positive affects on the health of both you and your employees.

Our research was a double blind trail, therefore participants had no way of knowing whether or not they were feeling the affects of cleaner air. When the results were collected, one that stood out the most was that participants had 40% less problems with breathing and less respiratory problems. This fact alone shows how much of a difference cleaner air can have, it can literally improve your breathing to inhale cleaner air.

A result that stands out the most to employers however is that all participants had fewer absences from work after their ventilation was changed to UV-C. 30% also had less mucous membrane problems and 50% had less problems with muscle pain. Overall, the results showed that making such a simple change in the workplace can have a really positive effect on your staff. Healthier employees are happier, work harder and stay motivated for longer.

So make the one simple change now that can seriously improve the health and motivation of your employees today. Visit Advanced Air Hygiene.

Cooling your Baked Goods with Advanced Air Hygiene

Bread Cooling can make or break your product. If it's done right, the bread remains light and tasty as it should, however if it's done wrong, the bread can become stale or even soggy, not very appetising at all, is it?

Advanced Air Hygiene will not only make sure that the bread cooling process is done right, but makes sure your bread and any other baked goods are safe from micro organisms and germs. It is very important during the cooling process of any baked product that the process is not rushed. The products can not be reduced to a temperature too cool, or too hot. The UV-C air conditioning system is under high control to assure that any of your cooling products are reduced to room temperature in perfect, steady timing.

After choosing to use UV-C Air Conditioning, the microbial contamination in the air is reduced to virtually zero. This leads to your products being fresher, for longer and often exceeding their expiry date. Less micro-organisms in the air means less micro-organisms reaching the products, less chance of contamination and a longer life for the product.

We assure you that you can put your trust in us to make sure that the bread cooling process of your products is done at the highest level of hygiene and control. Our UV-C disinfection systems use spiral coolers to constantly provide you with fresh, clean and disinfected air.

Visit our website to find out more about how you can make the most of your product life - http://www.aahygiene.com/industries/bakery/

The Benefits of Air Hygiene in the Food Industry

Food hygiene is crucial to everyone's health so it's of crucial importance specific measures and systems are put in place to ensure high standards of hygiene is always met for everyone. 

Systems such as air hygiene can provide the correct air disinfection using UV technology. They use germicidal effect of UV-C radiation which effectively prevents the microbial build up found in air conditioning and refrigeration systems.

The systems will improve the health of your staff and customers and the hygiene of your food products, increasing the shelf life of food during the food processing stages and storage. The systems will also help to improve the HVAC efficiency.

How does UV-C technology improve health?

When air is contaminated with microbes in the ventilation systems it can cause health problems. UV-C air hygiene systems prevent this from happening by reducing the concentration of microbes and endotoxins by up to 99%!

Advantages of UV-C air hygiene to health:

• 40% fewer respiratory problems **
• 30% fewer mucous membrane problems **
• 50% fewer complaints about muscle pains **
• Fewer absences due to illness **
• Healthier staff **

** Dick Menzies, Julia Popa, James A Hanley, Thomas Rand, Donald K Milton. Effect of ultraviolet germicidal lights installed in office ventilation systems on workers’ health and wellbeing: double-blind multiple crossover trial. The Lancet – Vol 362 – pp. 1785 - 1791, November 29 2003 – www.lancet.com

How does UV-C air hygiene improve shelf life? 

Food is spoiled when the air is contaminated with bacteria, moulds, yeasts and viruses. The UV-C air hygiene solutions prevent this from happening by reducing the microbial contamination by up to 99%. 

Advantages of UV-C Technology to the food industry:

• Extended shelf life
• Customer complaints are reduced
• Fewer product returns
• Improved freshness
• Contributes to HACCP and improves hygiene standards
• Quality assurance
• Fewer product losses - more profit!

How does UV-C air hygiene improve HVAC efficiency? 

Air contaminated by bacteria, moulds, yeasts and viruses causes microbial build-up on the heat exchange plates, primary condensate drain pans and intermediate drain pans of the cooling coils and eliminator sections in air handling units. This problem also affects the system ductwork, resulting in increased resistance to air flow and a loss in thermal efficiency.

The UV-C air hygiene solutions from Advanced Air Hygiene will help to prevent the microbial build up by reducing the contamination up to 99% on a recurring basis. 

HVAC Advantages of UV-C preventing microbial build up

• Improves Heat Transfer
• Reduced Compressor run time
• Reduced Compressor maintenance 
• Compressor life increased
• HVAC system life increased
• Net cooling capacity improved
• Thermal comfort increased

The following benefits can also be realised:

• Lower density filters can be used
• Between a 10-20% reduction in energy consumption
• Can go for years without cleaning coils, drain pans & ductwork, which can be a significant cost saving.

Advanced Air Hygiene have provided their UV-C air hygiene solutions to a vast range of industries including butchery and meat, bakery, fruit and veg, fish, dairy, health, elite sports facilities, modular buildings, oil industry and ventilation and air conditioning across the UK and Internationally. 

If you would like to know about how you can improve the health of your staff and customers, increase the shelf life of your food and more through air hygiene please visit aahygiene.com