What are the alternatives?

Using the FridoTech Pro Far-UVC to sanitise an area has a number of advantages

  • Works in real time in occupied spaces, inactivating viruses as they are aerosolised

  • Safe to human skin and eyes

  • Dosing controlled to comply with international regulation

  • Not dependent on unpredictable air flows

  • Robust proven science

  • The devices is visually prominent to reassure people that they are being protected

Whilst alternatives are a useful part of the sanitisation mix, they do have significant limitations…

Physical Cleaning

  • Expensive and time consuming

  • Ineffective against aerosolised virus 

  • Pulmonary irritant - affecting person cleaning and chronic lung disease passengers - asthma/copd

  • Fomite transmission not proven for Covid

  • Areas are immediately reinfected once an infected person enters and breathes. 

HEPA filters

  • Only useful in very small occupied spaces with rapid turnover of air, such as airplane cabins

  • Rapid degradation of filtering ability and unable to predict when it is not effective

  • Does not work in real time, so still have active virus in the air not being removed. 

  • Dependant on unpredictable airflows in enclosed environments 

HVAC units with 254nm UV lighting inside

  • Only active against virus as it passes over bulb. Does not inactivate in real time. 

  • Dependant on unpredictable airflow in enclosed environments

254nm autonomous lighting units

  • Has to be used in unoccupied spaces as is harmful to skin and human eyes

  • Area immediately reinfected once occupied by an infected person

Ion emitting systems

  • Dependant on airflows around rooms: this is unpredictable

Passive systems such as wearing of masks

  • People are non compliant.

  • Variable efficacy

  • Not enforceable

Vaccinations

  • Have to trust paperwork presented to board ship

  • Evidence that they reduce transmission, rather than just severity of symptoms, is unclear

  • Waning immunity

  • Not effective against noravirus

  • Not effective against influenza

  • Partial omicron efficacy