Proper cleaning and disinfection
Awareness in Hygiene !
As I get a lot of requests towards the Covid19 issues , as probably many in my type of business, I wanted to use shortly use the possibility to make people more aware of the hygiene processes. Generally to clean properly involving desinfection means a two step process. A desinfection cleaner or desinfection implies often that is it enough to use that, that is not right. Desinfections or desinfection cleaners if just used will by the cleaning process loose their efficiency for the desinfection part within, also if you clean dirt or films or contamination away it could be, that still bacterias and viruses live underneath not reached by the desinfection ! So a proper desinfection involves proper cleaning with efficient products and afterwards using a desinfection on the properly cleaned surface. What means a proper cleaning product ? An alcohol cleaner (usually 5-10 % alcohol, some tensides / surfactants,color and perfume) is not enough for cleaning of porous surfaces, it is only enough for glazed closed surfaces. Due to its wetting benefits on glazed surfaces it has the dissability of not cleaning into pores of surfaces properly enough, the benefit it has on one side is the lack on the other side. You need to use here real all purpose cleaners, look into the MSDS as often simple alcohol cleaners are also named all purpose cleaners. Which in a way is right if you apply them on closed and glazed surfaces, but not if used on porous surfaces and floors. A real all purpose cleaner is much more complex then just a few surfactants / tensides and some alcohol and that offers a longer better wetting property and can also dissolve fat, dirt and residues out of pores within surfaces. Lastely if you use Quad / Quat (Quaternary ammonium compound) desinfections for the second step in the process be aware and shure to use cleaning products based non ionic or inonic surfactants/tensides NOT anionic surfactants / tensides as this types of tenside can easily deactivate, if left as residues, Quads / Quats partly !
What I want here with this little assay is building an awareness of the cleaning and hygiene processes which involve proper cleaning and desinfection, it goes all hand in hand.
I am not promoting any products here as it should make people aware of processes and help, if you are interested I can let you know which solutions and processes we have and how to optimize your processes.
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