Revolutionary UVC + Ozone Shoe Sanitizing Station that eliminates up to 99.999% of the harmful pathogens
04/14/2026
Your cleanroom design is only as strong as its weakest link. For many facilities, it’s the personnel transition zones.
Regulatory bodies scrutinize the zoning strategy and the flow of contaminants from dirty to clean areas. If your personnel segregation is weak, your compliance is at risk.
Automated shoe sanitization strengthens the barrier between zones, providing a physical checkpoint between areas and a documented decontamination step.
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04/13/2026
Auditors aren't just checking your HACCP plan anymore. They're watching how your team behaves.
Food safety culture is now a formal audit expectation under GFSI-recognized standards and facilities that treat it merely as a buzzword are finding out the hard way that repeat non-conformances follow.
The standard is clear: employees at every level must understand and follow food safety practices daily. That means your sanitation program can't rely on reminders, checklists, and hoping people comply under pressure.
Automated sanitation controls, like the UVZone Shoe Sanitizing Station, aren't just about hygiene. They're evidence of a facility that has engineered safety into its daily operations. That's exactly what a strong food safety culture looks like to an auditor. Compliance shouldn't require willpower. Build systems that make it inevitable.
Healthcare EVS Directors - how are you controlling what walks into your hospital?
No matter how rigorous your terminal cleaning protocols are, contaminated footwear can reintroduce pathogens into your most critical spaces the moment someone walks back in.
The UVZone® Shoe Sanitizing Station gives your team a powerful line of defense at every entry point. No additional staff or daily consumables required.
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04/09/2026
Footwear hygiene is one of the last uncontrolled variables in contamination control.
Footwear continuously interacts with the most contaminated surface in your facility: 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
SQF Edition 10 reinforces the importance of preventive, risk-based thinking across an entire operation. This means identifying potential contamination pathways and managing them before they contribute to product risk.
For many facilities, foot traffic between zones represents an under-recognized transport pathway that can undermine otherwise strong sanitation programs.
Protecting patients means protecting every entry point. UVZone® Shoe Sanitizing Stations are proven effective against dangerous pathogens like MRSA, C. diff, E. coli, and Candida auris - in just seconds. A simple step that makes a serious difference in hospital biosafety.
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04/06/2026
Audits are not just about what you do. They are about what you can prove.
Imagine an inspector asks, “How do you verify your footwear hygiene process?”
Are you able to show:
- A consistent process?
- Repeatable conditions?
- A defined control point?
Automated shoe sanitizing stations are easily documented, defensible in audits and are an observable control that works the same way each time.
Is your footwear hygiene program audit ready? Learn more about UVZone® Shoe Sanitizing Stations at: patho3gen.com
04/03/2026
Uncomfortable Food Safety Question
Are your boot sanitizing mats actually working?
Several studies suggest traditional footwear sanitation protocols in food
processing deliver inconsistent microbial reductions. Some sanitizer-only
approaches have shown reductions as low as 0.9–2.3 log on boot soles.
That raises an interesting question. If footwear is moving through:
• loading docks
• raw areas
• wet sanitation zones
• floor drains
• production rooms
…should we rely on controls that may only work part of the time?
The advantages of UVZone footwear sanitation:
Fixed Duration: Every sanitation cycle is identical.
Rapid Treatment: Effective sanitation in seconds.
Hands-Free Compliance: Step on, step off.
Infrastructure Integration: Hygiene becomes part of facility design.
Learn more about UVZone Shoe Sanitizing Stations at: patho3gen.com
04/02/2026
A Question for Infection Preventionists:
How often do we talk about shoe contamination in hospitals?
Studies have found healthcare worker footwear carrying C. difficile at rates ranging from 15–60% in hospital environments. At the same time, walking activity can re-aerosolize microbes from contaminated floors, contributing to airborne microbial load.
Yet most infection prevention programs focus on:
• hand hygiene
• surface disinfection
• sterile equipment
The advantages hands-free, automated footwear sanitation:
Fixed Duration: Every sanitation cycle is identical.
Rapid Treatment: Effective sanitation in seconds.
Hands-Free Design: Easy integration into staff workflow.
Environmental Support: Complements existing infection prevention
strategies.
We are not suggesting shoes are the primary vector.
But are they an overlooked one?
Would love to hear how other infection prevention teams think about
footwear in healthcare environments.
04/01/2026
Uncomfortable Food Safety Question
How many environmental positives start with foot traffic?
We track:
• drains
• floors
• food contact surfaces
But do we track how contamination moves between those areas?
Employees walk through wet environments, sanitation zones, and corridors, then enter production areas. Shoes repeatedly contact the highest microbial load surfaces in the facility.
The UVZone advantage:
Rapid Cycles: Effective sanitation in seconds.
Standardized Hygiene: Every employee receives the same treatment.
Traffic Control: Hygiene becomes part of zone transitions.
Infrastructure Integration: No added labor required.
If zoning is critical to food safety…
Shouldn't footwear hygiene be part of the zoning strategy?
03/31/2026
Most CCS frameworks under EU GMP Annex 1 cover HVAC, gowning, and surface disinfection. But one pathway is rarely documented: foot traffic.
Operators pass through every controlled zone and every step contacts the floor.
The advantages of automated footwear sanitation:
* Fixed Duration: Every sanitation cycle is identical.
* Hands-Free Compliance: Step on, step off.
* Standardized Process: Every operator receives the same treatment.
* Transition-Zone Control: Sanitation occurs at entry points between cleanroom areas.
We build the equipment that closes the contamination gap. Let’s to discuss how it fits your facility. Book your live online demo at calendly.com/uvzone/demo
03/30/2026
UVZone delivers continuous pathogen reduction through UV-C + Ozone technology. By installing at entry points, it reduces shoe-borne microorganisms in seconds without disrupting workflow. Effective shoe sanitation delivered in seconds. It's a measureable addition to any infection control protocol. Step on, step off.
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Don’t Let Your Healthcare Facility be a Step Behind
In 2014, the CDC estimated that on any given day, 1 in 25 hospitalized patients would develop at least one HAI.
From the beginning, Green Earth Medical Solutions (GEMS) has been a different kind of company. A company whose business is focused on prevention, not treatment. We use a 100% natural state-of-the-art disruptive technology and innovative products with the goal of reducing the spread of deadly healthcare-associated infections, and by so doing, saving as many lives as possible. And that’s why we created PathO3Gen Solutions.HAIs (Healthcare-Associated Infections) have become an all too common problem in today’s hospitals.
Many technologies aid in reducing the infections that cause large numbers of remittances and even death of patients. Unfortunately, the current protocol in healthcare is reactive and for many, that’s too late. Approximately 300 people die every day, over 100,000 annually. Today’s infection control programs such as hand hygiene, cleaning and disinfection – are not eliminating the number of HAIs coming into hospitals. And research from the University of Houston and others show contaminated footwear is a major source and transmitter of bacteria in hospitals.Until now, no one has taken a proactive approach to killing these deadly foot-borne pathogens.
The idea for PathO3Gen Solutions was born in 2009 through founder, Asher Gil, an aeronautical engineer, entrepreneur, and visionary with 30+ years’ experience inventing innovative products. After three years of product research, design and development, Asher collaborated with the Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, FL. While working together, they developed one of the first footwear sanitizing stations (FSS). The purpose of an FSS is to kill germs and sanitize the soles of shoes. However, our device used a proprietary and later patented technology. It combines UVC + Ozone (O3) to pe*****te the shell and denature the DNA, stopping replication. After several tests, USF “certified” the product prototype for its effectiveness and four patents were granted by the USPTO (the United States Patent and Trademark Office). Designed from the ground up, our devices’ sole purpose is to quickly reduce the microbial burden and its potential to spread HAIs in all healthcare facilities. See Our Product Page.
HAIs don’t just affect healthcare facilities. In the future, we will turn our focus to eradicating life-threatening superbugs in other industries. Hospitality, public buildings, manufacturing, and many others that conduct business in high traffic spaces. We’re passionate about saving lives, not just in the United States but, around the world.
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Witness the power of PathO3Gen Solutions' Footwear Sanitizing Station.
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