Spray Tunnel

This describes equipment designed for the disinfection of food ingredients, utensils, equipment and packaging etc when transferred from a low risk area to a high care / high risk environment. Most tunnels have an ambient sanitiser solution tank fitted with a pump and automatic continuous dosing of the sanitising chemical. Some other types of may use ultraviolet light to destroy contaminants and pathogens on the items being conveyed through the tunnel. Also known as a sanitiser tunnel. An important factor in barrier control.