What’s in a Name? Canada’s new “Biocide” Regulation coming in 2024!
As 2023 has ended and we reflect on the past year, we also look at the new year for what will happen around the cleaning and disinfection side and possible new diseases. The last…
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Monkeypox, Disinfection, and EPA List Q (for Emerging Viral Pathogens)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains lists of effective disinfectants for various organisms of concern, which can be found here. To obtain EPA registration as a sanitizer, disinfectant or chemical sterilant, a manufacturer must…
Antimicrobial Evaluation of Electrostatic Spray-Tested Disinfectant
Electrostatic sprayers, when combined with the proper chemistry and conditions, work by positively charging disinfectant droplets so that when they are sprayed, they seek out and cling to negatively- or neutrally- charged surfaces. This…
Misleading Math: Kill Claims and Log Reduction
Logarithmic reduction is pervasive in the cleaning and disinfection literature, but many do not appreciate what it actually describes. The EPA guidelines on disinfection state that a greater than or equal to 6-fold logarithmic…
Balancing Disinfectant Efficacy and Surface Compatibility
For healthcare facilities, environmental hygiene protocols must accomplish a dual goal: helping prevent the spread of pathogens, while safeguarding the surfaces and equipment involved in the cleaning and disinfecting processes. Through recent product innovations…
Using Chemical Microbicides to Interrupt the Environmental Spread of Pathogens
Environmental spread of dangerous pathogens is becoming more prevalent as international travel gets easier. Chemical microbicides are a useful tool to curb the spread of infectious diseases, but their efficacy is not often uniformly…
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