Cleaning Hormone Residues
How can I clean residual hormone residue from our process lines and tanks?
For manual cleaning, we would highly recommend Tergazyme® Enzyme Active Powered Detergent. It contains proteolytic enzymes that can effectively break down protein-based hormones, along with powerful emulsifiers.
For a liquid concentrate manual cleaner, I would certainly recommend Detonox® Ultimate Precision Cleaner, for its potent emulsifying and chelation capability, to increase the hormone residue’s solubility in water.
For laboratory washer and CIP applications, we would recommend Alcojet® Low Foaming Powdered Detergent and Detojet® Low Foaming Liquid Detergent respectively with their ability to oxidize and chelation/hydrolysis.
In all cases, we would recommend you begin evaluation of the hormone cleaning application with 1-3% solutions, and warm temperatures.
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