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.

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/

Food Safety through Surface Disinfection Systems

Within the food industry it is crucial that food hygiene and safety standards are always met and achieved, otherwise health risks in staff and customers could arise and also food spoilage.

Health issues in people and food spoilage is caused by the build up of microorganisms such as bacteria, mould, yeast and viruses which are passed through the air by air conditioning and refrigeration systems. You also find, typically in the food industry, conveyor belts, surfaces, filling machines, foil and plastic lids become contaminated with microorganisms.

Surface disinfection systems offer the perfect solution to prevent and reduce the build up of microorganisms on all the above surfaces and equipment by providing effective disinfection through intensive radiation with UV-C. UV-C technology can effectively destroy 99.9% of bacteria.

Below are the different surface disinfection systems from Advanced Air Hygiene, who provide their air hygiene solutions to all industries across the UK and Internationally.

Surface Disinfection Systems 

SurTech Surface Disinfection System 

Provides effective hygiene and disinfection to through UV-C radiation for conveyor belts and cutting belts within the food industry. For more information please click here. 

UV-C Compact Luminare Surface Disinfection System 

The UV-C compact fixture has been designed to provide excellent disinfection to small areas and spaces through UV-C compact emitters. For more information please click here.

UV-C Moisture Proof Luminare Surface Disinfection System

The UV-C moisture-proof fixture, which complies with protection class IP 65, has been specially developed for use in particularly damp and dusty environments. For more information please click here. 

IP 65 UV-C Compact Lamp

The IP 65 UV-C compact lamp provides highly effective protection from dust and water through UV-C compact emitters. For more information please click here. 

Knife Sterilizers 

UV-C sterilizer for knives uses germicidal UV-C rays which destroys up to 99.9 % of microorganisms including bacteria and viruses. For more information please click here. 

All surface disinfection systems displayed are from Advanced Air Hygiene who also specialise in air disinfection systems, water disinfection systems, exhaust air purification systems and power check for all types of industries. 

Please visit www.aahygiene.com for more. 

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

UV Technology for the Meat and Butchers Industry

Within the meat and butchers industry you will find that meat and other food products become contaminated due to micro-organisms that cause spoilage spreading through the air which can be prevented by using disinfection system.


The systems use UV-C emitters with a primary emission wave length of 253.7nm and have an advantage over other systems because they produce no ozone. Below is a typical example of a hygiene problem occurring with an effective solution:

Problem 1:

One of many hygiene problems: In a climatised room for raw meat such as lamb, beef and pork, coatings and mould often appear on the product surfaces. This leads to mycel formation and a musty, mouldy smell. The personnel costs and waste incurred for washing or trimming these meats can be extremely high.

Our Solution:

Installation of a UV-C disinfection unit specially designed for simple wall or ceiling mounting in small rooms, for example AirTube C and AirWetech , or AirStream C for larger rooms. These units have an integrated ventilator and work continuously around the clock. If an evaporator cooler is installed in the store room or cool room, our AirTube or AirStream V can also be deployed. The Compact lamp IP 65 can also be integrated directly in ripening facilities.

The result is virtually no more coating on the products and no formation of mould. This removes the need for chemical treatment of the products as well as saving money and being good for customers' health.


You can purchase these unique UV-C systems from Advanced Air Hygiene who specialise in UV technology and air disinfection. Their systems uses a germicidal effect of UV-C radiation which prevents the micro-build up which travels through the air and particularly air conditioning and refrigeration systems.

Advanced Air Hygiene are able to provide their effective air hygiene systems to anyone in the UK and Europe. Please visit aahygiene.com for more information or to contact them direct.