ICAR developed Pusa Decontamination and Sanitizing Tunnel

Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR), New Delhi has developed Pusa Decontamination and Sanitizing Tunnel. The tunnel was inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Kailash Choudhary on 16 April in New Delhi.

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The sanitization protocol of the tunnel included handwashing with foot-operated soap and water dispenser and fogging in a sanitizing tunnel for 20 seconds.

In the tunnel, Quaternary Ammonium Compounds (QAC) are used at a concentration of 0.045%, as per the recommendation of the Health Department.

QAC are cationic detergents and disinfectants. It can be used to remove organic material. It will denature the proteins of the fungal or bacterial cell and affects the metabolic reactions of the cell and causes vital substances to leak out of the cell which will lead to the death of the virus.