Advanced Cleaning Mechanisms: Cold or Warm for Proteins?
Q: Many of your Tergazyme related TechNotes and recommendations include warm temperatures. Warm temperatures can still denature some hormones and proteins thus causing cleaning problems. I would probably start with a cool (room temp or cooler) rinse (water). Then move to the 1-2% cleaning solution in warmer temperatures. Agreed?
Tattoo Equipment Cleaning Recommendations
Great Art Starts With Clean Equipment. Alconox, LLC cleaning products have been used by healthcare professionals for over 70 years to prepare instruments for sterilization.
Help Us Comply With USP 800?
Q: We are a healthcare facility looking to comply with USP 800. Can Alconox, LLC help?
A: We can. USP 800 is a cleanroom standards overview concerning protection of workers and environments against hazardous drug compounds. This includes drugs that are characterized by carcinogenicity, teratogenicity or developmental toxicity, reproductive toxicity, organ toxicity at low doses, genotoxicity, or structure and toxicity profiles of new drugs that mimic existing hazardous drugs.
Non Hazardous Replacement for N-Propyl Bromide
Q: What can we do to replace n-propyl bromide? We are cleaning grease and oil from stainless steel. We had heard Citranox might do the job well.
A: The compound n-propyl bromide is often used in vapor degreasing and is considered to be associated with some serious health risks and is hazardous. We would certainly recommend you switch to a drain-safe, biodegradable, aqueous detergents.
How to: Making detergent solution (1%) by weight or volume
Making detergent solution (1%) of powdered detergent such as Alconox or Tergazyme, you can make your solutions by weight or by volume.
