Northern Virginia Business Testing New Disinfecting Technologies in Office

A Northern Virginia business is testing state-of-the-art self-cleaning technology in its office to prepare for a safer work environment once stay-at-home orders are lifted.

Christian Pinkston works for a digital marketing firm in Falls Church where he employs about 40 people. The office is testing a form of ultraviolet light called far UVC, which is a portal that looks like a metal detector. The portal kills any bacteria on the surface of the body as an individual walks through.

Pinkston said he didn’t know these types of technologies existed before, but feels confident that his workers will be much safer upon their return.

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