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Killing viruses
The definition of a disinfectant states that it kills viruses. Viruses are not living things, however; they only have some, but not all, of the properties of living things.
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Sanitizers
The article states that '. . .sanitizers are high level disinfectants. . .' which can be a misleading statement.
"High Level Disinfectant" is a specific definition used by the FDA to identify "a germicide that is intended for use as the terminal step in processing critical and semicritical medical devices prior to patient use. Critical devices make contact with normally sterile tissue or body spaces during use. Semicritical devices make contact during use with mucous membranes or nonintact skin (21 CFR 880.6885)." FDA website.
Whereas disinfectants typically effect a 6-log [or more] reduction of vegetative organisms to pass the AOAC Use-Dilution Test [99.9999% kill], food contact sanitizers effect a 5-log [99.999%] reduction of vegetative organisms.
Many high-level disinfectants kill endospores, although possibly not to the level of a true chemical sterilant.
In general, for environmental surfaces there are three kinds of germicides: sanitizers [lowest level of kill], disinfectants [higher level of kill] and sterilants [highest level of kill]. All three depend upon mode of use, contact time, temperature and application methods.
Jim Smith
209.145.162.138 21:34, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- A discussion of high-level, intermediate-level, and low-level disinfectants could improve the quality of this entry. Rbulling 21:03, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Recharacterization of Thymol as a phenolic disinfectant
Thymol is a phenolic disinfectant. Its chemical name is 5-methyl-2-(1-methylethyl)phenol, and scholarly articles refer to it as a phenolic disinfectant. Therefore, I am moving the Thymol entry under the Phenolic heading.
I wonder whether the statement about Benefect violates Wikipedia:Neutral Point of View guidelines by promoting one commercial product.
Rbulling 18:57, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Removal of Septustin M reference
The text describing is essentially identical to the text on Septustin M, tagged for speedy deletion (see Talk:Septustin M ), so I am removing the reference in the Disinfectant article. The text is both an advertisement for a product and badly translated.
Rbulling 20:24, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
== Treatment of
Pls disable the autodirect from the topic of sanitizer....
unless the definitions of the both are specified in the article
Please have a look at the defs at
http://www.midsussex.gov.uk/page.cfm?pageID=1783 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.62.138.33 (talk) 00:01, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Chlorine in Public Pools
Not a major deal, but I thought I'd point out that the section about sodium hypochlorite as a disinfectant in pools isn't entirely true. When a pool is chlorinated, it can be chorinated by elemental chlorine gas, di-chlor, tri-chlor, lithium hypochlorite, and calcium hypochlorite as well as sodium hypochlorite. Sodium hypochlorite is just the most commonly used chlorinating agent because it's cheap and relatively easy to use. If somebody feels like changing this, feel free, but I don't have a source for this handy at the moment. I just remembered it from my pool operator class (I'm a lifeguard).
Peteweez (talk) 05:57, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
It is Bleach/Chlorine, rather than HP that kills cells. HP is the safest Bleach substitute out there and the only one I don't get a bad reaction from.
BLEACH ARTICLE http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6829b ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.77.75.185 (talk) 19:02, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
Sunlight and ultraviolet light.
They are not equivalent. The word sunlight should be removed entirely, or the sentence could be changed to: "The disinfecting properties of ultraviolet light (a component of sunlight) are powerful." Joezuyus (talk) 14:52, 24 February 2009 (UTC)joezuyus
What is the most common disenfectant used in hospitals —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.109.130.165 (talk) 20:33, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
See the infos from Google scholar
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Controversies
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Removal of picture of soldiers being "disinfected"
I removed the picture of the soldiers standing around, naked, allegedly waiting to be disinfected. While I understand that Wikipedia is not censored (WP:CENSORED), that doesn't mean that we should include any picture of naked people "just because." Nothing in that picture should a disinfectant, there was no clear evidence that the picture was, for certain, linked to disinfectants, and even if we could verify that it did, having the picture doesn't add anything to the reader's understanding of disinfectants. That picture may be appropriate on a page about the history of military health treatment or sanitation, but not on the page explaining what a disinfectant is. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:33, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
