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BERLIN – An outbreak of COVID-1nine in the germabig apple is forcing meat packing plants to inspect the infection threat posed through their cooling systems, striking the middle of global considerations about coronavirus transmission in the air.
Toennies, a meat and slaughter producer, closed its factories in western Germabig apple in June after more than 1,500 employees have become inflamed with the virus.
He had to install high-powered HEPA filters used in hospitals and aircraft before he could reopen on Friday.
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Low temperatures, which commonly allow viruses to stay longer in the air, and overcrowded conditions have made meat packaging plants a coronavirus hot spots.
To keep temperatures between 6 and 10 degrees Celsius (43-50 degrees F), ventilation systems draw air from meat packaging rooms and cool it before injecting again, expanding small droplets loaded with viruses.
Last week, the World Health Organization issued new rules on air transfer of the virus, and its technical leader in the pandemic said the drop corridor is the most common address of infection.
The EU’s public fitness framework assesses the hazards posed by workplace ventilation systems, while Gerguy’s Minister of Agriculture has also asked other low-temperature industries, such as dairy and fish processing, to carry out assessments.
There are almost 1,500 meat-producing plants in Germany, the Federal Bureau of Statistics.
The company’s meat verification agreement said other corporations were testing ventilation filters, but their effectiveness in preventing the spread of COVID-1nine is not well enough to advance updates.
The fish extraction agreement said the dangers were not up to meat production because their plants were not consistent with less Americans and were more consistent with other characteristics.
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Before reopening, Toennies also had to install ultraviolet (UV) irradiation systems in quantities of the plant where red meat is processed.
A UV lamp that kills germs with radiation can charge more than a thousand euros, while the improvement of a meat packing corridor could be a five-figure sum, said Christian Rueth, head of marketing and sales for uv-disinfection formula manufacturer Heraeus Noblelight GmbH.
Since the Toennies outbreak, the compared apple has seen “more than double” surveys of corporations in the meat, fish, frozen fruits and vegetables and milk sectors.
Low temperatures can decrease UV radiation performance, meaning plants install more difficult lamps, said Christoph Kaup, CEO of ventilation device manufacturer Howatherm. Its combined apple has also seen expanding demands, adding offices and gyms.
HEPA filters are much less expensive but with maintenance and service costs because they have a tendency to temporarily get dust dirty, he said.
Martin Exner, a public fitness expert at the University of Bonn who knew the Toennies ventilation formula as an imaginable virus promoter, said corporations using ventilation formulas to cool air had “special attention” and had to expand new hygiene plans.
So far it has been seen whether such ventilation systems defy beyond industry, such as an excess in theaters or offices.
But if other Americans huddled in rooms where the air was recycled, the problem had to be taken into account, he said.
(Reports through Caroline Copley; edited through John Stonestreet)
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