The term decontamination indicates that we intend to somewhat decrease the bioburden but not go as far as sterilization and thereby comply with the strict regulations in that field. Instead the user, according to his own needs, defines himself the degree of microbial reduction. One example is that packing material, though already rather clean from the mechanical manufacturing process, can be processed down to 1/100 or 1/1000 of the original bioburden. And at small doses compared to sterilization. Perhaps it is enough with 2 kGy instead of 25 as normally required for sterilization. The gain for the user is that the total bioburden in his plant may decrease a significant factor, which may mean that he will be more attractive for demanding customers. The increased cleanliness will thereby be paid for.
To satisfy the need for large scale decontamination we will install an unusual feature in our gamma plant, aimed at handling very large objects at small doses. E.g. a paper roll with diameter 1 meter and length 2 meters.