Sanitization

Sanitization is the cleaning and disinfection of an area or an item. Sanitizing involves the use of heat or chemicals to reduce the number of microorganisms to safe levels. It can also refer to:


 * Data sanitization, preventing recovery of erased information
 * Sanitization (classified information), in government/military contexts
 * Censorship, preventing publication of information
 * HTML sanitization, removing potentially unsafe constructs from web pages
 * Sanitation harvest, or sanitation cutting, removing plants to counter insects or diseases