# Ingestion sanitizers

Sanitizers are processes applied to an object before ingestion, allowing for an object to comply with ingestion conditions. They fundamentally carry out cleaning tasks over files or folders.

**LIBSAFE,** by default, provides a series of ingestion sanitizers geared towards checking file paths and names in regular file systems, and the deletion of files and folders that should not be present in an object.

The ingestion sanitizers screen shows a list of those present in the system, as well as their range of use, whether they are active or not (to be able to be configured in the preservation plans), and access to the sanitizer configuration and detail.

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