Sanitizers and disinfectant products claims their effectiveness on their products. The effectiveness is being claimed by writing “kills 99.9% of bacteria and viruses.” These claimes are done for disinfectant products that are used to clean hospitals, manufacturing facilities, food preparation areas and laboratories.
These claims are being verified by tests.
A Time Kill Study is a microbiology method for the assessment of antimicrobial activity of an antimicrobial test material or disinfectant. The Kill Time Study is carried out to evaluate the microbial reduction by a disinfectant against selected bacteria or fungi after a specified exposure time.
Cleaning and Disinfection Efficacy Studies are performed to demonstrate that your cleaning and disinfection process is effective on your unique surfaces. Collaborating with Q Laboratories on a custom study design will allow you to prove your procedure is effective at inactivating or removing microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi (yeast and molds), and/or bacterial spores.
The Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) is defined as the lowest concentration of an antimicrobial ingredient or agent that is bacteriostatic (prevents the visible growth of bacteria).MICs are used to evaluate the antimicrobial efficacy of various compounds by measuring the effect of decreasing concentrations of antibiotic/antiseptic over a defined period in terms of inhibition of microbial population growth.