Advanced Synergetic Sanitizing Technology

What is Disinfekt®1000 ?

Disinfekt®1000 is a high-performance product especially formulated for use in poultry hatcheries and farm animal housing facilities. Disinfekt®1000 combines the powerful antimicrobial action of glutaraldehyde with an effective synthetic detergent. At its recommended use: dilution of 1 ounce per gallon of water (1:128).

What are the advantages of Disinfekt®1000 ?

• No buildup, eliminating need for time consuming and costly cleanup and removal.
• Does not contain or release formaldehyde.
• Effective against a broad spectrum of microorganisms.
• Surfactant action enhances cleaning.
• Ideal for critical areas, ex: hatcheries, processing plants, farm equipment.
• Functions well over a broad temperature range.
• Effective performance on a wide variety of construction materials.
• Fast acting.
• Properly diluted solutions are not detrimental to waste treatment systems.
• Not affected by hard water.
• Compatible with water tolerantmetals avoiding etching, pitting, or scale formation.

Product Performance Disinfekt®1000

Suitable for use on a wide variety of surfaces. In actual field use, it reduces contamination on commonly used materials of construction, including stainless steel, aluminum, painted and unpainted concrete, plastic, rubber, wood, and paper. Furthermore, it is no more damaging to these materials than is water. Even after repeated applications, there was no detectable buildup or tacky residue remaining after the treated surfaces had dried. Disinfekt®1000 also reduces airborne microorganism counts when applied via existing humidification or individual fogging equipment. There have been no adverse effects reported in the hatch rate, grow-out rate, or general health appearance of fowl that were hatched and processed in Disinfekt®1000 treated areas.

Antimicrobial Activity

The effectiveness of Disinfekt®1000 can be seen in the AOAC Germicidal and Detergent Sanitizer Test. At the recommended use dilution (1:128), Disinfekt®1000 completely destroyed test microorganisms in less than one minute, even in the presence of extremely hard water.

Disinfekt®1000 was also tested by the EPA Sanitizer Test for efficacy in the presence of an organic load. Disinfekt®1000 completely destroyed the target organisms in 5 minutes in the presence of an organic load.

Disinfekt®1000 effectively cleans over a broad range of use-conditions. It can be easily diluted with available water without concern for reducing performance because of interactions with water hardness or ph. Fogging, atomizing, or spraying are all effective ways to apply Disinfekt® Sanitizers.

Compatibility

Disinfekt®1000 is suitable for use on many surfaces. At the recommended use-dilution ratio (1:128), it is compatible with all materials of construction that can tolerate exposure to water. The following materials were subjected to 25 spray/dry cycles at 25°C, without rinsing, with no detectable changes relative to duplicate materials sprayed with water:

Effectiveness on Materials of Construction. Disinfekt® Sanitizer 1000 is effective on most commonly used materials of construction. Based on the EPA Sanitizer Test for Inanimate, Non-Food Contact Surfaces, Disinfekt®1000 effectively destroys microorganisms on aluminum, stainless steel, polyethylene, glazed ceramic tile, unglazed ceramic tile, and unpainted wood at the recommended use-dilution (1:128).

EPA Sanitizer Test for Inanimate, Non-Food Contact Surfaces

Contact Temperature = 25°C, Hardness as CaCo₃ = 1200 ppm

	Microorganism Level, CFU/mL
	Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6538		Klebsiella pneumonia ATCC 4352
Test Surface	Initial	Survivors	Initial	Survivors
Aluminum Stainless Steel Polyethylene	1.5 x 106 2.1 x 106 3.0 x 106	0 0 0	3.5 x 106 4.5 x 106 8.0 x 106	0 0 0
Glazed Ceramic Tile Unglazed Ceramic Tile Unpainted Wood	1.5 x 106 1.3 x 106 5.5 x 106	0 0 0	2.0 x 106 1.3 x 106 3.0 x 106	0 0 0

Properties of Disinfekt®1000 -vs- Competitive Sanitizers
Property	Disinfekt® 1000 Glutaraldehyde	Cresylics & Phenolics	Quaternaries	Formaldehyde
No tacky residue Low vapor pressure Compatible/ metals Effective/ hard water	Yes Yes Yes Yes	No Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes No No	Yes No Yes Yes
Compatible/ surfactants: anionics nonionics cationics	Yes Yes Yes	Yes No No	No No Yes	Yes Yes Yes
Effective vs. yeast fungi viruses Gram + bacteria Gram - bacteria	Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes Some Yes Yes	Yes Some Some Yes Some	Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Animal studies show that glutaraldehyde, the active constituent of Disinfekt®1000, is not teratogenic, and there is extensive evidence that it is not mutagenic. There is no evidence to indicate that it can cause adverse health effects by long-term, low-level repeated exposure.