The use of UV-C allows a waterless and chemical-free method of decontaminating food contact surfaces such as HDPE, HDPP, and stainless steel, or more specifically the purge from the food products which lie on the food contact surfaces. Our results demonstrate the potential of UV-C for decontamination of purge and food contact surfaces. To date there has been little published data on the use of UV-C to inactivate microorganisms suspended in purge which contaminates food contact surfaces. Sommers and Gunther demonstrated a >5 log reduction of Campylobacter jejuni suspended in poultry exudate on food contact surfaces by UV-C (Sommers and Gunther, 2013) These results are similar to UV-C inactivation obtained in similar experiments using the biothreat agent F. tularensis (Sommers et al., 2012), in which a >5 log reduction of F. tularensis was obtained in purge from meat, poultry, and catfish. It may be useful to examine the use of UV-C in com- bination with natural antimicrobials for inactivation of microor- ganisms within food product exudate in the future