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Monday 21 April 2014

What To Know About Winery Sanitation

By Essie Osborn


A winery should be kept as sanitary as it can possibly be and this should be maintained. There are many ways to make sure that you do maintain winery sanitation, although one way is by using ozone. For over a hundred years, this has been used in several different ways for water treatment. This varied from things such as sewer works to things like swimming pools.

Up to a certain point, however, it was only permitted that it be involved with bottled water that is in need of purification. However, it became permitted to use it to clean foodstuffs, and wineries could then make use of ozone. There are lots of areas where this is needed other than just general sanitation.

This includes things such as barrel cleaning, tank cleaning and surface cleaning, too. Where ozone tends to be most used, the systems are usually kept in one place. This makes it easier to maintain health and safety levels where the ozone is concerned. However, with wineries, these systems will be mobile since there are often multiple operators, and this means that the safety of it is more likely to be compromised.

This means that it is incredibly important that safety features are kept in place. The system itself also needs to be reliable and well maintained. The way that ozone works is that it sanitizes when it interacts with microbial membranes and denaturing metabolic enzymes.

It then degrades them and will also do the same with any microbial biofilms that it might might. After the release of this oxidizing potential, the ozone will then turn back into oxygen, which it generated from. This means that there is no residue left, afterwards, but it also means that you should not store the ozone. Every time that it is used, it should be freshly generated.

When it is used within the workplace, it should be monitored since it is a toxic gas. As well as this, when it comes to the amount that it should be used in that workplace, there are also limits that have been made officially. Consider this if you plan to use it. To best ensure safety, there are those monitors that can be used, as well.

To pick out the monitor that is best for you and your situation, , there are specialists that can have you. To get instruction on how your system should be used, it is essential that you have a manual. You should, in addition to this, also make sure that you keep records of how the system is being used, as well as the monitor. Also make sure that you employ a technician who will come in to verify that the system is running smoothly. The kind of thing that needs verification are flow rates and concentration.

It is very important to make sure that all of the ozone that has been generated has been accounted for. It can be that there are leaks that can release the gas and cause a danger. How the ozone has been used is also incredibly important when it comes to monitoring. For instance, it might be that it is being used to fumigate a cellar. It might be, on the other hand, it needs to be dissolved in water for sanitation reasons.




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