diff --git a/lib/zendesk_apps_support/package.rb b/lib/zendesk_apps_support/package.rb
index 67971f89..998f77bf 100644
--- a/lib/zendesk_apps_support/package.rb
+++ b/lib/zendesk_apps_support/package.rb
@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ def validate(marketplace: true, skip_marketplace_translations: false)
       end
 
       errors << Validations::Banner.call(self) if has_banner?
-      errors << Validations::Svg.call(self) if has_svgs?
-
       errors.flatten.compact
     end
 
@@ -55,6 +53,15 @@ def validate!(marketplace: true, skip_marketplace_translations: false)
       true
     end
 
+    def curl_zam_svg_validation_endpoint
+      begin
+        require 'net/http'
+        response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI("https://appsubmission.zendesk.com/apps/zat_validation?params=#{self}"))
+        raise "There was an error in validation of svgs" if response.status != 200
+        true
+      end
+    end
+
     def assets
       @assets ||= Dir.chdir(root) do
         Dir['assets/**/*'].select { |f| File.file?(f) }
@@ -92,10 +99,6 @@ def lib_files
       @lib_files ||= js_files.select { |f| f =~ %r{^lib/} }
     end
 
-    def svg_files
-      @svg_files ||= files.select { |f| f =~ %r{^assets/.*\.svg$} }
-    end
-
     def template_files
       files.select { |f| f =~ %r{^templates/.*\.hdbs$} }
     end
@@ -187,10 +190,6 @@ def has_file?(path)
       File.file?(path_to(path))
     end
 
-    def has_svgs?
-      svg_files.any?
-    end
-
     def has_requirements?
       has_file?(REQUIREMENTS_FILENAME)
     end
diff --git a/lib/zendesk_apps_support/validations/svg.rb b/lib/zendesk_apps_support/validations/svg.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 57c3e794..00000000
--- a/lib/zendesk_apps_support/validations/svg.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
-# frozen_string_literal: true
-
-require 'loofah'
-
-module ZendeskAppsSupport
-  module Validations
-    module Svg
-      PLACEHOLDER_SVG_MARKUP = File.read(File.expand_path('../../assets/default_app_logo.svg', __FILE__))
-
-      # whitelist elements and attributes used in Zendesk Garden assets
-      Loofah::HTML5::WhiteList::ALLOWED_ELEMENTS_WITH_LIBXML2.add 'symbol'
-      Loofah::HTML5::WhiteList::ACCEPTABLE_CSS_PROPERTIES.add 'position'
-
-      # CRUFT: ignore a (very specific) style attribute which Loofah would otherwise scrub.
-      # This attribute is deprecated (https://www.w3.org/TR/filter-effects/#AccessBackgroundImage)
-      # but is included in many of the test apps used in fixtures for tests in ZAM, ZAT etc.
-      Loofah::HTML5::WhiteList::ACCEPTABLE_CSS_PROPERTIES.add 'enable-background'
-
-      @strip_declaration = Loofah::Scrubber.new do |node|
-        node.remove if node.name == 'xml' && node.children.empty?
-      end
-
-      # Loofah's default scrubber strips spaces between CSS attributes. Passing the input markup through this scrubber
-      # first ensures that this stripped whitespace in the output doesn't register as a diff.
-      @strip_spaces_between_css_attrs = Loofah::Scrubber.new do |node|
-        match_pattern = Regexp.new(/\;\s+/)
-        if node.name == 'svg' && node['style']
-          node['style'] = node['style'].gsub(match_pattern, ';')
-        end
-      end
-
-      @empty_malformed_markup = Loofah::Scrubber.new do |node|
-        node.next.remove while node.name == 'svg' && node.next
-      end
-
-      class << self
-        def contains_embedded_bitmap?(markup)
-          Nokogiri::XML(markup).css('//image').any?
-        end
-
-        def rewrite_svg(svg, new_markup, package, errors)
-          warning_string = if contains_embedded_bitmap?(svg.read)
-                             'txt.apps.admin.warning.app_build.bitmap_in_svg'
-                           else
-                             'txt.apps.admin.warning.app_build.sanitised_svg'
-                           end
-
-          package.warnings << I18n.t(warning_string, svg: svg.relative_path)
-          compressed_new_markup = new_markup.tr("\n", '').squeeze(' ').gsub(/\>\s+\</, '><')
-          IO.write(svg.absolute_path, compressed_new_markup)
-        rescue
-          errors << ValidationError.new(:dirty_svg, svg: svg.relative_path)
-        end
-
-        def call(package)
-          errors = []
-
-          package.svg_files.each do |svg|
-            if contains_embedded_bitmap?(svg.read)
-              rewrite_svg(svg, PLACEHOLDER_SVG_MARKUP, package, errors)
-            else
-              markup = Loofah.xml_fragment(svg.read)
-                             .scrub!(@strip_declaration)
-                             .scrub!(@strip_spaces_between_css_attrs)
-                             .to_xml.strip
-
-              clean_markup = Loofah.xml_fragment(markup)
-                                   .scrub!(:prune)
-                                   .scrub!(@empty_malformed_markup)
-                                   .to_xml
-
-              next if clean_markup == markup
-              rewrite_svg(svg, clean_markup, package, errors)
-            end
-          end
-          errors
-        end
-      end
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/zendesk_apps_support.gemspec b/zendesk_apps_support.gemspec
index 685d6b81..8557b099 100644
--- a/zendesk_apps_support.gemspec
+++ b/zendesk_apps_support.gemspec
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_runtime_dependency 'image_size'
   s.add_runtime_dependency 'erubis'
   s.add_runtime_dependency 'jshintrb', '~> 0.3.0'
-  s.add_runtime_dependency 'loofah', '~> 2.2.3'
-  s.add_runtime_dependency 'nokogiri', '~> 1.8.5'
   s.add_runtime_dependency 'rb-inotify', '0.9.10'
 
   s.add_development_dependency 'rspec', '~> 3.4.0'