IUVA Healthcare/UV Working Group Troy Cowan IUVA Healthcare/UV Working Group facilitator With the COVID-19 pandemic starting to stabilize, many things working in the background have started to come to fruition, including the following projects. Return to normalcy webinar  As part of the COVID-19 Task Force, the Healthcare Working Group wanted to address the return-to-work … [Read more...] about New Program Activity in First Quarter 2021: What a Wild Ride!

Samantha Deverell, managing director, Adtech Polymer Engineering In an increasingly regulated and safety-conscious world, the threat of contamination is ever growing. As a result, UV sterilization equipment is becoming more and more important for the medical, pharmaceutical, and food and drink industries. Used to help disinfect drinking water, sterilize food contact surfaces … [Read more...] about Use of Fluoropolymers in UV Sterilization Equipment

Oliver Lawal, CEO, AquiSense Technologies Rich Simons, Ph.D., product development scientist, AquiSense Technologies Anna Herman, applications engineer, AquiSense Technologies Jennifer Pagan, Ph.D., CTO, AquiSense Technologies Since its emergence in 2019 SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, has had a global impact. Solutions for controlling the virus are … [Read more...] about SARS-CoV-2 Dose Response Research Update

IUVA Healthcare/UV Working Group Troy Cowan IUVA Healthcare/UV Working Group facilitator As 2020 ended, IUVA was celebrating acceptance into FDA’s Network of Experts and the success of the ICUDAS Federal Regulatory Roundtable panel involving FDA, EPA, NIST and the Canadian Research Council. Both events solidified IUVA’s role as a leading integrator of UV technology into the … [Read more...] about IUVA Achieving Win/Win Success with Key Players in UV Disinfection

Castine A. Bernardy, Nicola M. Elardo and Alexa M. Trautz, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire Corresponding author James P. Malley, Jr., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire Worldwide concern over the risk of contracting or spreading COVID-19 has … [Read more...] about COVID-19 Pandemic Shines a Light on Mercury-Free Germicidal Ultraviolet Sources

IUVA Food and Beverage Safety Working Group Dr. Keith Warriner, CPHAZ Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Ontario Peter E. Gordon, VP of business development, Bolb Inc. Dr. Tatiana Koutchma, Agriculture and Agrifood Canada, Guelph, Ontario George Santayana’s famous aphorism, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” seems appropriate when … [Read more...] about Looking Back with COVID-Tinted Lenses … Looking Forward to a Bright UV Future

IUVA Healthcare/UV Working Group Troy Cowan, director, Vision Based Consulting The N95 webinar was designed to get the pulse of the UV industry on N95 decontamination and provide feedback to the Food and Drug Administration on its Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) process for reviewing and approving UV N95 decontamination applications. Upon analyzing the webinar materials … [Read more...] about IUVA and FDA Working Together on N95 Decontamination Issues

David J. Weber, M.D., M.P.H., Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina;  Lionel Pineau, Ph.D., president and scientific director, Eurofins Biotech Germande; corresponding author James R. Bolton, … [Read more...] about Proposed Standard for Ultraviolet-Based High-Level Disinfection of Medical Devices