In the Association's publication No. 10, minimum requirements for the sterilisation per-formance of VDMA Hygiene Class IV filling machines are specified and the general conditions for proper operation are described. In the revision now presented, new test microorganisms have been specified for UVC-b…

In its trade association publications, the VDMA Food Processing and Packaging Ma-chinery Association specifies spores of Aspergillus niger DSM 1957 or Aspergillus brasiliensis DSM 1988 as test germs for checking the disinfection performance of UV-based disinfection devices in VDMA hygiene classes II…