Coming clean about sanitisers

The level of understanding is frankly woeful. So, one of the leading suppliers of antiviral products to the healthcare sector explains what we need to know. According to Ross Walker of Clinical Health Technologies, “Using any sanitiser is a good thing, but many are no more effective than a thorough hand wash with hot water and soap. If you have been using an antibacterial sanitiser to protect yourself against the virus, I’m afraid you have been operating under a false sense of security as antibacterial sanitisers are only effective against bacteria, not viruses. Antimicrobial sanitisers, however, are effective against a wide spectrum of microbes including bacteria, mould, fungi and viruses.

“Another misconception is that only alcohol is effective against viruses. In fact, alcohol is one of the less effective chemicals and has to be used in concentrations of at least 70 per cent in order to be effective.” Many alcohol sanitisers contain far lower concentrations than this.
In contrast, the effectiveness of Clinisept+ against coronaviruses has been vigorously and independently tested and proven to be highly effective in killing all enveloped viruses, including coronaviruses, in under 15 seconds. This is 240 times faster than the recognised test for virucidal efficiency (EN14476).