Food Manufacturer Using Healthe UV Equipment to Sanitize Air

Randy Shore at Vancouver Sun reports Nature’s Path—a food manufacturer based in British Columbia—has installed cutting-edge ultraviolet lighting and air-disinfection filters at its plants that promise to rid indoor air of the virus that causes COVID-19. All three plants—in Delta, Blaine, Wash. and Sussex, Wis.—have been equipped by Florida-based Healthe Inc. Proprietary downlights for general illumination employ “Far-UVC 222 nanometer light” to sanitize the air in break and lunch rooms where physical distancing is a challenge. They have also installed specialized “troffers” — ceiling-mounted circulators that draw air through carbon filters and treat it with the same wavelength of UV…