Decontamination apparatus and method

An apparatus for disinfecting an object by at least partially deactivating a contaminant from the object, the apparatus comprising:

• a housing enclosing a disinfection chamber in which a portion of the object is to be received to be disinfected;
• an inlet aperture through which the object is introduced to the apparatus;
• a feed path along which the object introduced to the inlet aperture is conveyed generally toward the disinfection chamber and is discharged subsequent to disinfection of the object, wherein the feed path comprises a plurality of rollers comprising a first roller, comprising a peripheral surface that abuts against a peripheral surface of an opposing roller to interfere with an emission of ultraviolet light from the housing to an ambient environment of the apparatus, wherein at least one of the first roller and the opposing roller is adjustably supported so the first roller and the opposing roller are separable from each other based at least in part on a dimension of the object passing between the first roller and the opposing roller;
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• an ultraviolet light source that emits ultraviolet light to be imparted on the portion of the object introduced to the disinfection chamber for deactivating at least a portion of the biologically-active contaminant present on the object.