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  1. What Is An Aqueous Cleaner? 4/26/2023

    This chapter of The Aqueous Cleaning Handbook explains what an aqueous cleaner is, what it contains, and how it can improve your cleaning process.

  2. The Aqueous Cleaning Handbook 4/26/2023

    This handbook is intended to assist laboratory and manufacturing plant scientists and engineers in accurately selecting and maximizing the performance of aqueous cleaners and systems.

  3. Aqueous Cleaning Processes 4/26/2023

    What does the BATH-O-CARD acronym represent, and how can it help you during your aqueous cleaning process?

  4. Critical Cleaning For 3D Printing In The Life Sciences 8/17/2022

    Here, we focus on the critical cleaning of hard surfaces utilized in 3D printing processes across industries, such as extruded plastics, photosensitive substrates, metals, and metal alloys.

  5. A Guide To Cleaning RNA Contamination 6/8/2022

    Learn what combinations are most effective when cleaning RNA contamination, and review important details regarding interfering residues.

  6. Overcoming Difficult Cleaning Residues In Life Sciences 5/21/2021

    Explore general cleaning concepts, important sanitary surface considerations, cleaning guidelines for cannabis manufacturers, medical device re-processing and cleaning applications, and more.

  7. Overcoming Difficult Cleaning Residues In Life Sciences 10/23/2020

    Explore detergent selection and chemistry, sanitary surface considerations for COVID-19, cleaning strategies for cannabis manufacturing, and solutions for challenging residues in consumer products and cosmetics.

  8. Advanced Cleaning Mechanisms: Cold Or Warm For Proteins? 8/28/2020

    Warm temperatures can denature some hormones and proteins, causing cleaning problems. Gain insight on how temperature can effect enzymatic and emulsifying activity in cleaning mechanisms.

  9. Cleaning Coveralls And Other Potentially Contaminated PPE 8/28/2020

    If you are looking to manually clean coveralls, bunny suits, bouffants, and the like, the Alconox detergent you have in house will be great.  In a more ideal circumstance, we would go with what is essentially Alconox powder enhanced with protein enzymes.  This truly gives thorough removal/cleaning of biological, proteinaceous, viral, and microbial residue.  This is Tergazyme® Enzyme-Active Powdered Detergent – see our Tergazyme detergent video.  Both detergents, the Alconox and Tergazyme powder, do not contain traditional “laundry” detergent attributes: florescent whitening agents, softeners and fragrances. They both contain excellent dispersants, emulsifiers and wetting agents that can enhance cleaning significantly.  So they won’t “smell” clean, they just will be clean.  In fact, critically clean.

  10. Cleaning And Disinfecting For Viruses And Other Pathogens 8/28/2020

    Per Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines for cleaning and disinfecting viruses and other pathogens, any form of disinfection necessarily follows cleaning. The process of cleaning will remove any residues that might shield any virus or pathogen from the disinfection step that comes next. Disinfection, following thorough cleaning and rinsing, can be done with bleach solutions, 70% alcohol solutions, or other products with EPA-approved emerging viral pathogens claims. As outlined by CDC, bleach solutions should reside on surface for at least one minute and can be made as follows:

    • 5 tablespoons (1/3rd cup) bleach per gallon of water, or
    • 4 teaspoons bleach per quart of water

    An excellent cleaning and wiping solution can be made with 0.5% (0.75- 1.5 oz/gal or 5 mL/L) Alconox® Powdered Precision Cleaner or Liquinox® Critical Cleaning Liquid Detergent, depending on preference for powder or liquid concentrate, respectively. Following which, per the CDC guidelines, wipe with the above bleach solution or other disinfectant solution. Allow wiped-down surfaces to sit for several minutes before rinsing to complete the disinfection.