Disinfection limits the risk of epidemic and infection by removing pathogenic microorganisms.

Disinfection treatment conducted in order to destroy microorganisms such as bacteria, rickettsia, fungi and their spores. Disinfection is performed by a chemical, thermal or ozonisation method.

Disinfection involves various surfaces: floors, walls, machines and equipment, working tables in the food industry and gastronomy. In health care facilities, the disinfection includes whole infectious departments, medical equipment and also the means of transport. Ventilation and air conditioning systems should also be disinfected regularly.

• food production plants and gastronomy,
• disinfection of means of transport in meat industry, dairy industry and feed manufacturing plants,
• poultry farms,
• hospitals, ambulatories, means of transport of sick people,
• hotel rooms and pensions,
• premises and cars of a deceased person,
• municipal waste means of transport,
• dentist’s and prosthetic surgeries.

Due to the application of chemical agents, VACO strictly observes the regulations ordering leaving the disinfected premises by people and animals.

Technicians conducting the disinfection treatment are provided with professional protective clothes. Agents used for the disinfection treatment usually need to remain on the disinfected surfaces for a specified time. After the treatment, ventilation or washing process starts, depending on the type and destination of disinfected surfaces and structures of devices.