Environmental Risk Control
In controlled environments, footwear hygiene is often treated as a procedural step, not a validated control point.
For many pharmaceutical and clean manufacturing facilities, the default approach remains:
disposable shoe covers
adhesive mats
informal or manual practices
As expectations rise around Contamination Control Strategy (CCS) under EU GMP Annex 1, facilities are being asked a more direct question:
The Footwear Hygiene Gap
Footwear continuously interacts with the floor, while moving through:
gowning rooms
airlocks
corridors
production areas
Yet footwear hygiene is often:
non-standardized
dependent on human behavior
difficult to verify
This creates a gap between intended control and actual control.
UVZone Shoe Sanitizing Station
UVZone® does not automatically replace disposable shoe covers. Your facility determines where covers, garbing and personal protective equipment remain required. We can help you evaluate UVZone® as a shoe-sole treatment step at an appropriate entry within your facility's approved procedures.
Manual processes introduce variability through inconsistent use, incomplete coverage, and differences between shifts.
What reduction is achieved?
Is the process repeatable?
Can performance be validated or trended?
Footwear also serves as a transport mechanism between zones, increasing the risk of cross-contamination despite otherwise robust controls.
A Shift to Infrastructure-Level Control
Modern contamination control is moving from procedural dependence to engineered consistency.
The UVZone Shoe Sanitizing Station introduces a standardized hygiene step at key transition points such as gowning entry, airlocks, and zone boundaries.
What Changes with an Automated Approach
- UVZone® uses a standard 8-second treatment cycle. Both shoe soles are treated during the same activated cycle.
- Selected results shown. Full laboratory reports are available upon request. Testing conducted from 2019 through 2022.
- If footwear requires physical cleaning, that cleaning step remains necessary. If your procedure requires chemical treatment, shoe covers, dedicated footwear, hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, environmental cleaning, sanitation, traffic controls, or another facility control, that requirement remains in place until the responsible facility team approves a change.
- UVZone® adds a dry, automatic shoe-sole treatment step at an appropriate entrance or controlled transition point. On Gen I, standing on the station compresses the springs. The seated lid activates a mechanical switch to start the treatment cycle.
Reinforced Zone Control
Aligns physical movement with contamination control strategy- UVZone® is intended to complement a broader contamination-control, hygiene, infection-prevention, or biosecurity program. It does not independently establish compliance or guarantee a facility-specific result.
Footwear Hygiene as a Control Point
For QA, bioburden control, and manufacturing leaders, the question is no longer whether footwear can carry contamination.
The question is:
Should footwear hygiene be treated as a defined, verifiable control within your CCS?
As expectations continue to rise, facilities are prioritizing solutions that are:
consistent
measurable
auditable
sustainable
Footwear hygiene has long been a secondary consideration. But in controlled environments, where variability is the enemy of control, that approach is changing.
Application Limits
UVZone® treats the undersides of shoes during an activated treatment cycle. It does not continuously treat the room, the facility, or the footwear after the user steps off the station.
If footwear requires physical cleaning, that cleaning step remains necessary. If your procedure requires chemical treatment, shoe covers, dedicated footwear, hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, environmental cleaning, sanitation, traffic controls, or another facility control, that requirement remains in place until the responsible facility team approves a change.
UVZone® is intended to complement a broader contamination-control, hygiene, infection-prevention, or biosecurity program. It does not independently establish compliance or guarantee a facility-specific result.
Third-Party Lab Verified Efficacy. Selected results shown. Full laboratory reports are available upon request. Testing conducted from 2019 through 2022.
Efficacy claims based on independent laboratory testing. Results may vary based on application conditions. Patho3Gen technology is designed for environmental surface sanitation and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Always follow manufacturer guidelines and applicable regulations.