Contamination

What is contamination? The definition

Contamination is the contamination or pollution of rooms, water, soil, air, objects, people or animals with harmful substances, e.g. with radioactive radiation in a nuclear power plant, toxic gases or chemical substances. Contamination also describes the contamination with pathogens, e.g. in the unhygienic production of food.

“Contamination also describes phenomena in linguistics:

• the merging of components of two or more words
• a word created by fusion
• a type of slip of the tongue in which words or phrases are mixed up” ¹

Contamination-free processing has long been a challenge for companies that want to meet the strict guidelines of the GMP standard during production. In addition to traditional industries such as cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, this issue is also becoming increasingly important and imperative for companies in the animal health, animal feed and consumer care sectors due to ever stricter requirements. Ebbecke Verfahrenstechnik AG has developed a screening machine that meets these requirements.