Cleaning and Disinfecting Collars

1. State of GPS Collars

Deployed collars are exposed to environmental and biohazardous conditions, and are not always recovered in the best of conditions. Yet, they often must be handled for the purposes of data collection and refurbishment.

2. Disease and Cleaning Protocol

A common solution emerges for disinfecting equipment potentially exposed to animal-borne diseases.

Disease	Cleaning Protocol	Reference
Foot-and-mouth disease	Sodium hypochlorite 3% (for 30 minutes)	https://www.woah.org/app/uploads/2021/09/202501-fmd-diseasecard.pdf
Avian Influenza H5N1	Sodium hypochlorite	https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14575118/
Blue-tongue	Sodium hypochlorite 3%	https://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/bluetongue.pdf
Chronic Wasting Disease	Sodium hypochlorite 40% (for 5 minutes)	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0223659

3. Bleach

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1. State of GPS Collars

2. Disease and Cleaning Protocol

3. Bleach

4. Disease and Cleaning Protocol

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Cleaning and Disinfecting Collars

1. State of GPS Collars

2. Disease and Cleaning Protocol

3. Bleach

4. Disease and Cleaning Protocol

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