CLEANING & HYGIENE
How Clean is Your Care Home?
Paul Brownhill, Managing Director of EcoTech (Europe) Ltd, stresses the importance of tried-and-trusted cleaning and hygiene brands when it comes to choosing products for your care home cleaning regime.
The last 28 months have been very challenging times for all of us, as the global Covid-19 pandemic took hold. What has become evident over this period of time is the number of disinfectant products that have emerged onto the market, and quite a few without the independent tests that take many months and sometimes years to be carried out.
The EcoTech EcoClenz family of alcohol-free disinfectant wipes, gels and surface disinfectant sprays are fully tried and tested to conform with European standards and have also been tested by the UKAS-accredited laboratories, in addition to the NHS testing laboratories for the NHS’s own use. Just some of the key European tests that we have had carried out on EcoClenz are as follows and of course all test certificates are available to support these claims: BS EN1276; BS EN 14476: 2013 + A2: 2019; BS EN 13727; BS E 3058-16 – up to eight hours efficacy on hands, and BSS 7434.
It is so important that care home owners and their managers have the confidence that the products they are using within their establishments are absolutely fit for purpose and are giving the very best protection to both care teams, residents and visitors. The EcoClenz range not only kills enveloped viruses (including Covid-19), but also the areas that have been cleaned/ disinfected have a good residual efficacy. This means that surfaces wiped using EcoClenz remain effective for up to 30 days, which is so important for those areas in the home that may not have a regular clean down. EcoClenz is tested effective against viruses including: Poxviridae, Herpesviridae, Filoviridae (e.g Ebola, Marburg), Flavivirus, Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV), Influenza Virus, Paramyxoviridae, Rubella, Measles Virus, Rabies Virus, Coronavirus, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Human T Cell Leukemia Virus (HTLV).
EcoTech manufactures a wide range of hygiene-related wet wipes and cleaning cloths all of which form a very important part of a daily cleaning and disinfecting regime. During this pandemic, it was essential for EcoTech to be able to respond in a proactive way by selecting a core range of products
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from its extensive portfolio that would help combat this very contagious virus, which is now known to be mutating into various other strains. Prevention is better than cure every time.
It is so important in closed confined areas such as care homes that both staff and residents have the best level of protection that can be provided and this is why, in addition to our disinfectant range of products, EcoTech is also able to supply from stock an almost one-stop shop to include a three-ply FFP Type 1 face mask which we have had tested here in the UK to BSEN14683:2019 a medical standard. So many masks in use in the UK today only have EN149 testing and some of these have been found to be questionable. What is vital is the particle filtration, and not how fashionable it looks.
EcoTech Symsave 3 ply disposable face masks have been tested for Bacterial Filtration Efficacy & Differential pressure as per EN14683 and Microbial Cleanliness as per ISO 11737-1:2018 and as per EN14683 requirements. The mask performed as below:
• Bacterial filtration efficacy >95% • Differential pressure <40 pascals(Pa/cm2 • Microbial cleanliness < 30 (cfu/g)
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EcoTech Symsave 3-ply commercial disposable face masks fulfils the performance requirements criteria for a type 1 Medical Face Mask as per EN14683
We have been through quite a few health epidemics over the years but nothing quite like Covid-19 and what this has now created is true awareness of ‘hygiene’- something we have been promoting for many years. Even though life is now returning to some normality, the new perception on cleaning and disinfecting is here to stay so it is so important that the correct products are used for the various applications.
EcoTech are currently offering all care home customers a never before ‘Buy one get one free’ deal on selected products.
www.ecotech-europe.com
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