{"636882":{"#nid":"636882","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ozone gas can provide a safe means to disinfect personal protective equipment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHealth care facilities have used ultraviolet light, vaporized hydrogen peroxide, heat, alcohol and other techniques to disinfect these items, but until recently, there had not been much interest in ozone disinfection for PPE, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/finn\/m.g.\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/a\u003E ... \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/williams\/loren\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELoren Williams\u003C\/a\u003E introduced the research team to a manufacturer of ozone disinfection chambers, which allowed evaluation of the equipment using the test protocol ... After subjecting face masks and respirators to ozone disinfection, the team worked with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ng-dr-nga-lee-sally\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENg Lee (Sally) Ng\u003C\/a\u003E to evaluate the filtration capabilities of the items. \u003Cem\u003ERelated coverage: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.healthcarefacilitiestoday.com\/posts\/Ozone-disinfection-could-allow-safe-reuse-of-PPE--24840\u0022 id=\u0022docs-internal-guid-8d157e72-7fff-de63-2706-d17645e58f3d\u0022 style=\u0022text-decoration:none;\u0022\u003EHealthcare Facilities Today\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.enn.com\/articles\/64503-ozone-disinfection-could-safely-allow-reuse-of-personal-protective-equipment\u0022 style=\u0022text-decoration:none;\u0022\u003EEnvironmental News Network\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34528","created_gmt":"2020-07-13 02:55:43","changed_gmt":"2020-07-22 20:49:43","author":"jhunt7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"financial security","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20200709\/Ozone-gas-can-provide-a-safe-means-to-disinfect-personal-protective-equipment.aspx","dateline":{"date":"2020-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}