UV+Filtration, despite the myth it is not always enough to lock out bacteria
Published on by Giovanni Pavanello, Director at ALVIM Biofilm Monitoring Technologies
Even if UV and filtration can eliminate 99.99% (and even more) of bacteria from water and other liquids, the remaining 0.01% can sometimes cause many more problems than expected. Indeed, even those few bacteria can settle on surfaces in contact with water/liquid, forming the so called "biofilm". Since the number of such microorganisms grows exponentially (they duplicate themselves), this can be a huge threat, in particular in Food&Beverage production. By the way, more than 90% of bacteria live in biofilm (not free in the water), and this is also the ideal environment for the proliferation of pathogens.
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