DisCide disinfectant effective against Ebola and EnterovirusD68

Palmero Health Care carries several types of disinfectants. When considering such products for your dental practice, ask yourself the following questions:

As a potential purchaser, what are the key talking points I should know about Palmero’s DisCide line?

• The products are available as a spray, foam, aerosol or towelette. And Palmero Health Care’s DisCide Ultra liquid comes in one-gallon refills. Palmero’s DisCide disinfectants offer ready-to-use, fast-acting, hospital-level products that are designed to expedite operatory turnover.
• All of the DisCide disinfectant products are also suitable for use in your practice’s central sterilization room and office areas, according to the company.

How can DisCide help streamline a dental practice’s infection control processing?

• DisCide ULTRA is a one-step, quaternary ammonium, high-level, alcohol-based disinfectant that’s laboratory-proven to kill deadly pathogens in one minute.1,2
• Offered in a towelette and spray, DisCide ULTRA is noncorrosive and nonstaining, and leaves behind a pleasant herbal scent with no unsightly residue.
• The product is registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency, and it meets the disinfection requirements of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) bloodborne pathogens standard.
• As shown on the EPA’s list, Palmero Health Care’s DisCide Ultra Disinfecting Towelettes and DisCide Ultra Disinfecting Spray achieved the agency’s stringent efficacy performance standards against staphylococcus aureus, pseudomonas aeruginosa and mycobacterium BCG (tuberculosis bacteria). The products are confirmed as efficacious hospital disinfectants.

How did your disinfectant rate?

• You can go to the EPA website for additional detials on this at www.epa.gov/oppad001/ atp-product-list.pdf.
• Per EPA’s guidelines, DisCide Ultra liquids and towelettes have been found effective against Ebola virus and EnterovirusD68. For more details, you can go to registration number 10492-4 and 10492-5. www.epa.gov/oppad001/list-l-ebola-virus.html.

So what’s the final takeaway?

• Palmero’s DisCide line offers a choice of ready-to-use, hospital-level disinfectants that are easy to use. The products are ideal for dental offices. From fast-acting DisCide ULTRA spray to every other product in the line, clinicians will find these products to be economical and effective choices to meet all of their infection-control needs, according to the company.

Free samples

• Request a free sample at www.palmero health.com/requestSamples and be sure to mention “Dental Tribune” as how you heard about it. Call the company at (800) 344-6424, or visit www.palmerohealth.com.

References

1. Kills tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis or TB), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), HIV-1, AIDS virus, H1N1-Pandemic 2003 influenza A virus, hepatitis B virus (HBV ), hepatitis C virus (HCV ), vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis (VRE), respiratory syncytial (RSV ), H3N2 avian influenza A virus, influenza A virus (Hong Kong), adenovirus, herpes simplex virus type.

2. (HSV-2), coronavirus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella enterica, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli (E. coli), athlete’s foot fungus and more.