A suspension method to determine reuse life of chemical disinfectants during clinical use.
AUTOR(ES)
Robison, R A
RESUMO
In-use testing of disinfectants is necessary to ensure efficacy over time. The current official procedure for testing disinfectants, the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) use-dilution method, cannot be adapted to repeated sampling techniques of use-life testing. It is therefore necessary to use an alternative method when evaluating the activity of a disinfectant under actual use. The Clinical Research Associates (CRA) suspension method was developed to fill this need. It consists of adding 0.5 ml of a standard culture to 5.0 ml of test disinfectant and sampling the mixture after 10 min for surviving bacteria. When this test was compared with the AOAC use-dilution method under a simulated use situation, the two methods were generally equivalent in identifying disinfectant inactivation. In addition, the CRA method was less time consuming, easier to perform, and less variable than the AOAC method. Use of the CRA method in a clinical study demonstrated the need for reuse claims to be based on clinical use studies rather than on laboratory testing only.
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