Canadian-invented machine cleans and disinfects N95 masks for reuse by health workers

Moyers’ Apple Products in Beamsville, Ontario, makes gourmet candy apples. After a 2015 listeria outbreak in California was traced back to some other candy apples, owner Paul Moyer decided to find a way to prevent food-borne illness from affecting his own company’s products, and worked with a University of Guelph food scientist to build a solution. The result was the Clean Flow Mini, a machine that not only kills listeria, but also nearly all other pathogens (only 0.01 per cent make it out alive) using ozone, peroxide gas, and UV light.

When COVID-19 broke out, and Moyer heard about an imminent shortage of the N95 masks needed to protect front-line health care workers, he wondered if the Clean Flow Mini might be able to help. He and his workers ran a bunch of tests on masks deliberately coated with viruses, and they came out sanitized. Health Canada gave the go-ahead, and Clean Works, the company that builds the machines, ramped up its production. They’re now building 15 machines a week to meet demand from health care facilities across Canada.

Source: National Post