A Serious Situation
As a business owner, you face a variety of potential threats. Some, like Boil Water Alerts, are more likely to occur than others. Your business district could face several throughout the year. As with any threat, a Boil Water Notice could mean closing your doors and meeting severe financial impact. Be prepared in order to keep your food or beverage business open during boil water alerts.
Keeping Your Business Open During Boil Water Alerts with UV-C Disinfection
When a Boil Water Advisory is issued, you have three water disinfection treatment options to consider in order to keep your business open while keeping your patrons safe: boiling, chemical treatment, and UV-C. Unlike boiling and chemical disinfection, UV-C allows for critical business operations to remain as usual. Depending on your needs and industry, systems can be installed point-of-entry (POE) or point-of-use (POU). They require very little maintenance — just occasional quartz sleeve cleaning and UV lamp replacement about once a year or every 10,000 hours of operation.
Hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, hospital and school cafeterias, commercial ice makers — and just about any facility that is preparing food or beverages for public consumption — must follow strict guidelines in order to ensure the safety of their clients during a boil water alert.
Food and Beverage Prep
An on-site UV-C system protects your business by disinfecting water before use, helping you stay open and saving you valuable resources during a boil water alert. Without UV-C disinfection, fresh fruits and vegetables washed with tap water need to be thrown out. The same goes for ice, tea, coffee, and any beverages made with tap water. You will need to disinfect all preparation surfaces, storage containers that housed potentially contaminated foods or liquids, cutlery, and any inline plumbing such as water lines for automatic ice or coffee machines.
Dishwashing
If you have one of Atlantic Ultraviolet Corporation’s UV-C water disinfection systems installed at your location, you can continue to wash dishes as usual. Facilities without UV-C disinfection systems must either follow precautions when washing dishes or use disposable plates and cutlery.
Hand Washing
Wash and rinse as usual. In a separate basin, combine 1 teaspoon of non-scented household bleach with 1 gallon of warm water. Soak the already washed and rinsed dishes in the bowl for 1 minute. Then, let the dishes air dry thoroughly. Staff maintenance is required to ensure there are no chemical mishaps and that the soak water has the proper bleach to water ratio. Dishes also need adequate space and time to allow for complete air drying.
Automatic Dishwasher
In order for disinfection of any pathogens in the water to occur, automatic dishwashers must have a sanitization setting or a final rinse cycle that reaches the following temperatures for the time lengths listed here.
| Minimum of 20 min. at 113°F |
| Minimum of 5 min. at 122°F |
| Minimum of 1 min. at 162°F |
Disposable products, extra staff time for manual washing, and a loss of prep space and time with dishes air drying can all impact your bottom line. Having one of Atlantic Ultraviolet Corporation’s UV-C disinfection systems will keep your business open during boil water alerts and allow you to wash dishes as usual. No extra time or resources are needed.
UV-C Water Purifiers Enable Operation Without Interruption
UV-C water disinfection product lines from Atlantic Ultraviolet Corporation® come with a variety of standard and optional features depending on the model selected. Safety features, such as lamp indicator lights and audible alarms, alert you of malfunction. Our MEGATRON® models feature manual or automatic wiper systems for easy quartz sleeve cleaning. Our SANITRON® models S37C, S50C, and S2400C are certified to NSF®/ANSI 61 and 372.
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With UV-C disinfection, you will have peace of mind knowing your system is continuously neutralizing harmful viruses, bacteria, and cysts including E. coli, Giardia, and Salmonella. Wondering how our products can give such assurance? Read our FAQ: How UV Water Purifiers Work or browse our waterborne disease posts. Keep your food or beverage business open during boil water alerts and keep your patrons safe.
Learn More & Shop UV Purifiers for Boil Water Advisories
Atlantic Ultraviolet Corporation’s water purifiers are constructed from stainless steel and the highest quality materials, using UV-C lamps to neutralize harmful microorganisms. There are several product lines and various models designed for residential, commercial, and industrial use. Available accessories provide flexibility for virtually any application.
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