diff --git a/cmd/agent/app/reporter/grpc/reporter.go b/cmd/agent/app/reporter/grpc/reporter.go
index 217c5ae42f2..cb14cf0e3e4 100644
--- a/cmd/agent/app/reporter/grpc/reporter.go
+++ b/cmd/agent/app/reporter/grpc/reporter.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func NewReporter(conn *grpc.ClientConn, agentTags map[string]string, logger *zap
 		collector: api_v2.NewCollectorServiceClient(conn),
 		agentTags: makeModelKeyValue(agentTags),
 		logger:    logger,
-		sanitizer: zipkin2.NewChainedSanitizer(zipkin2.StandardSanitizers...),
+		sanitizer: zipkin2.NewChainedSanitizer(zipkin2.NewStandardSanitizers()...),
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/cmd/collector/app/sanitizer/empty_service_name_sanitizer.go b/cmd/collector/app/sanitizer/empty_service_name_sanitizer.go
index 85db9913fa3..9e94acfdd79 100644
--- a/cmd/collector/app/sanitizer/empty_service_name_sanitizer.go
+++ b/cmd/collector/app/sanitizer/empty_service_name_sanitizer.go
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/model"
 )
 
-var (
+const (
 	serviceNameReplacement = "empty-service-name"
 	nullProcessServiceName = "null-process-and-service-name"
 )
diff --git a/cmd/collector/app/sanitizer/sanitizer.go b/cmd/collector/app/sanitizer/sanitizer.go
index a17b1351aac..3ccebda82d4 100644
--- a/cmd/collector/app/sanitizer/sanitizer.go
+++ b/cmd/collector/app/sanitizer/sanitizer.go
@@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ import (
 // span should implement this interface.
 type SanitizeSpan func(span *model.Span) *model.Span
 
-// StandardSanitizers are automatically applied by SpanProcessor.
-var StandardSanitizers []SanitizeSpan = []SanitizeSpan{
-	NewEmptyServiceNameSanitizer(),
+// NewStandardSanitizers are automatically applied by SpanProcessor.
+func NewStandardSanitizers() []SanitizeSpan {
+	return []SanitizeSpan{
+		NewEmptyServiceNameSanitizer(),
+	}
 }
 
 // NewChainedSanitizer creates a Sanitizer from the variadic list of passed Sanitizers.
diff --git a/cmd/collector/app/sanitizer/zipkin/span_sanitizer.go b/cmd/collector/app/sanitizer/zipkin/span_sanitizer.go
index 94d25a1fc7a..71b707f90b2 100644
--- a/cmd/collector/app/sanitizer/zipkin/span_sanitizer.go
+++ b/cmd/collector/app/sanitizer/zipkin/span_sanitizer.go
@@ -27,16 +27,17 @@ const (
 	zeroParentIDTag     = "errZeroParentID"
 )
 
-var (
-	defaultDuration = int64(1)
-	// StandardSanitizers is a list of standard zipkin sanitizers.
-	StandardSanitizers = []Sanitizer{
+var defaultDuration = int64(1) // not a const because we take its address
+
+// NewStandardSanitizers is a list of standard zipkin sanitizers.
+func NewStandardSanitizers() []Sanitizer {
+	return []Sanitizer{
 		NewSpanStartTimeSanitizer(),
 		NewSpanDurationSanitizer(),
 		NewParentIDSanitizer(),
 		NewErrorTagSanitizer(),
 	}
-)
+}
 
 // Sanitizer interface for sanitizing spans. Any business logic that needs to be applied to normalize the contents of a
 // span should implement this interface.
diff --git a/cmd/collector/app/span_handler_builder.go b/cmd/collector/app/span_handler_builder.go
index 301cecfbf5d..69e5aac865e 100644
--- a/cmd/collector/app/span_handler_builder.go
+++ b/cmd/collector/app/span_handler_builder.go
@@ -67,7 +67,11 @@ func (b *SpanHandlerBuilder) BuildSpanProcessor(additional ...ProcessSpan) proce
 // BuildHandlers builds span handlers (Zipkin, Jaeger)
 func (b *SpanHandlerBuilder) BuildHandlers(spanProcessor processor.SpanProcessor) *SpanHandlers {
 	return &SpanHandlers{
-		handler.NewZipkinSpanHandler(b.Logger, spanProcessor, zs.NewChainedSanitizer(zs.StandardSanitizers...)),
+		handler.NewZipkinSpanHandler(
+			b.Logger,
+			spanProcessor,
+			zs.NewChainedSanitizer(zs.NewStandardSanitizers()...),
+		),
 		handler.NewJaegerSpanHandler(b.Logger, spanProcessor),
 		handler.NewGRPCHandler(b.Logger, spanProcessor),
 	}
diff --git a/cmd/collector/app/span_processor.go b/cmd/collector/app/span_processor.go
index 816f5b4837b..abb7a322a9b 100644
--- a/cmd/collector/app/span_processor.go
+++ b/cmd/collector/app/span_processor.go
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ func newSpanProcessor(spanWriter spanstore.Writer, additional []ProcessSpan, opt
 	}
 	boundedQueue := queue.NewBoundedQueue(options.queueSize, droppedItemHandler)
 
-	sanitizers := append([]sanitizer.SanitizeSpan{}, sanitizer.StandardSanitizers...)
+	sanitizers := sanitizer.NewStandardSanitizers()
 	if options.sanitizer != nil {
 		sanitizers = append(sanitizers, options.sanitizer)
 	}