Magnolia Bakery First To Install Far-UVC Light Cleanse Portal

New York’s Magnolia Bakery, which is famous for its delicious banana pudding and cupcakes, will be the first business in the city to install a coronavirus cleanse portal featured with disease-destroying, futuristic-looking far-UVC lights.

In a press release, the bakery announced that the sanitizing lights would be present in its stores at West Village and Upper West Side. It will also be installed at its e-commerce facility in Harlem for the benefit of its workers.

“We’ve instituted aggressive cleaning practices in all of the Magnolia Bakery locations that have remained open for takeout and delivery,” Magnolia Bakery’s chief baking officer Bobbie Lloyd said. “With this new technology, we’re able to do even more to ensure the safety of our staff and customers,” he went on.

Once the lights are up and running, customers who visit the Magnolia Bakery outlets will be asked to step into the cleanse portal, described as similar to a courthouse magnetometer. Customers will have to be sanitized for 20 seconds under the 220 nanometers wavelength ultraviolet light.

Studies have shown that far-UVC light may effectively control the spread of microbial diseases caused by viruses and bacteria, while being safe for humans.