Cross-contamination Control
Today, pathogen exposure can move
faster than your protocols
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Medical interventions, especially on sick animals, or high-value breeding stock
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High risk or vulnerable animals (reptiles, rescued animals, breeding stock)
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High volume and high interaction settings
While sanitization is always important, it becomes critical when the stakes are higher. Sick animals undergoing medical procedures, rescued animals that may be in very vulnerable states of wellbeing, and shelters or daycares where lots of animals are constantly coming and going, and interacting, means extra care is required to avoid any outbreaks due to cross-contamination.
Using detergents depends on correct use and avoiding human error in terms of storage, liquid ratios, and correct application to achieve efficacy.. Similarly, using UV requires ensuring that the equipment being cleaned is situated such that the light can access all areas and no ‘shadows’ accidentally leave untreated pathogens as a threat. Also, UVC deals with the pathogen threat, but doesn’t address odours which also tend to increase as an issue with higher volumes or pets or those who are unwell.
How Clean Play Helps:
Cross-Transmission Mitigation
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99% pathogen reduction to keep both animals and humans safe
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Speed and ease of use means the 99% efficiency is achievable
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Reduces the risk of human error impacting sanitization procedures
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Clean Play’s use of cold plasma technology means that you can confidently kill pathogens, and remove odours, with a complete cleaning cycle of 5 mins. Because the cold plasma ‘saturates’ the entire contents of the Sanichest, you can be confident that any part of equipment placed into the SaniChest is always going to receive the same high-efficacy cleaning. This reduces the reliance on staff protocols and procedures to ensure that the highest levels of sanitization are achieved, affording peace of mind in knowing cross-contamination is consistently managed.
Primary Use Case - Amit
Animal Centre Manager
Amit manages a busy shelter which regularly houses 30+ cats and dogs, and is sometimes called upon to support emergency intakes of large seizures by animal protection officers. When animals are seized due to abuse and neglect, the animals very often either have communicable diseases, or are at greater risk to disease, so being on top of cross contamination is often a matter of life or death.
Additionally, many of his staff and volunteers have their own animals, so keeping them and their pets safe is also an important consideration.
Industry Data & Operational Evidence
~60% of known human infectious diseases are zoonotic and ~75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic so whenever animals (or their waste, saliva, fur/dander, bedding, feed) and shared environments are involved, cross-contamination and spillover risk is structurally high.
Canada has an active, ongoing highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) response (multi-setting biosecurity risk) underscoring how quickly a high-impact pathogen can force movement controls, closures, and intensive decontamination anywhere birds intersect with people (farms, equine/ag interfaces, mixed-animal facilities, rehab/zoos, veterinary clinics).
Drug-resistant zoonotic bacteria are already showing up in Canadian investigations: PHAC reported an investigation into extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Salmonella with 40 confirmed cases across 6 provinces and 13 hospitalizations (illnesses spanning 2020–2023), highlighting that when pathogens spread via contamination routes, they may also carry treatment-resistant consequences.
