LED Lighting Education and Information

Why Choose LED Lighting for Your Food Processing Plant?

Food and beverage manufacturers are unique facilities with demanding energy and performance needs. In fact, 15% of U.S. energy consumption is attributed to the food processing and production industry. The sheer size of these factories means more energy consumption, obviously, but there are other reasons too.

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UV Light for Food Irradiation and Employee Illness Protection

Food processing plants and the food and beverage manufacturing industry, responsible for producing, packing, and distributing all of our favorite brands, need ways to keep bacteria and other pathogens at bay to both protect their food products, but also to protect employees, and it can accomplish both with the right UV-C light fixtures in place.

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Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections with UV-C Lighting

Healthcare-associated infections, or HAIs, cause a significant portion of illnesses and deaths in the medical field. They're such a concern that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has pinned the reduction of HAIs as a top goal for their agency. HAIs lead to tens of thousands of deaths and many billions of dollars in costs for healthcare facilities nationwide each year (source).

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Event Alert: LEDs Magazine To Host UV-C Fact vs. Fiction Webinar

As a supplier and partner for businesses looking to implement germicidal UV-C lighting, we wanted to share LEDs Magazine's upcoming webinar. The webinar is titled Germicidal UV-C Radiation: Fact and Fiction About Killing Pathogens and it's on Thursday, June 18th at noon CST. Here's a link to the registration page, and here's what the Magazine has to say of the event:

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UV-C Light Fixture Types Explained

As we discuss in our UV-C light education page, germicidal UV-C lighting is versatile and available in different forms to suit its many applications. UV-C light is commonly used in medical settings, in schools, for wastewater treatment, on public transportation, and more. There's a fixture type to suit every need.

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As UV Lighting Market Grows, Beware False Advertising

In light of the recent coronavirus pandemic, people are looking at every option for cleaning and disinfection to keep their patrons safe. Medical facilities, restaurants, hotels, schools, etc. are all under mounting pressure to kill all pathogens, particularly coronavirus itself. This is where germicidal UV-C lighting comes in, and with this demand for germ-killing comes a surge in supply. But do UV light sanitizers work?

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Do Sanitizing UV Wands Really Work?

We've been writing a lot about the benefits of germicidal UV-C lighting in many applications, but not all UV products are created equal. Portable UV wands or handheld UV lights claim to clean everything from cell phones to airplane seat back trays. And while the technology is seemingly convenient, does it really work to kill germs?