Disinfectants are used to kill pathogenic microorganisms on the vector to make them harmless, to eliminate pathogenic microorganisms outside the human body, to cut off the transmission pathway of infectious diseases, and to achieve the purpose of controlling infectious diseases.
Disinfectants can be divided into sterilizers, high efficiency disinfectants, medium efficiency disinfectants, and low efficiency disinfectants according to their level of action. Sterilizing agents can kill all microorganisms to achieve sterilization requirements, including formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, ethylene oxide, peroxyacetic acid, hydrogen peroxide, chlorine dioxide, chlorine, copper sulfate, lime, ethanol, etc.
High-performance disinfectants can kill all bacterial propagules (including mycobacteria), viruses, fungi and their spores, etc., and also have a certain effect on bacterial budding cells to achieve a high level of disinfection requirements, including chlorine-containing disinfectants, ozone, methylglycylurea compounds, double-chain quaternary ammonium salts, etc. Medium-effective disinfectants can only kill microorganisms such as mycobacteria, fungi, viruses and bacterial propagules to meet the disinfection requirements, including iodine-containing disinfectants, alcohol disinfectants, phenolic disinfectants, etc. Low-effect disinfectants can only kill bacterial propagules and pro-ester viruses to meet disinfectant requirements, including quaternary ammonium disinfectants such as benzalkonium bromide, bivalirudin disinfectants such as chlorhexidine (chlorhexidine), metal ion disinfectants such as mercury, silver, copper and herbal disinfectants. Definition of disinfectants Disinfectants are preparations used to kill pathogenic microorganisms on the vector and make them harmless. It is different from antibiotics, and its main role in disease prevention is to eliminate pathogenic microorganisms outside the human body, cut off the transmission pathway of infectious diseases, and achieve the purpose of controlling infectious diseases.
With the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, searches for personal cleaning care products have skyrocketed, and the importance of hand and skin cleaning in both public and home life has increased significantly. Disinfection of homes and public places is an important tool to effectively prevent the presence and spread of pathogenic microorganisms, and in the context of a new coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, enhanced disinfection is imperative. Common chemical disinfectants include chlorine disinfectants, peroxide disinfectants, aldehyde disinfectants, alcohol disinfectants, phenolic disinfectants, iodine-containing disinfectants, ethylene oxide, guanidine disinfectants, and quaternary ammonium disinfectants. Among them, chlorine disinfectants and ethanol disinfectants are the most widely used disinfectants, while quaternary ammonium salts and hypochlorite disinfectants have also come into the sight of ordinary consumers.
At present, the domestic market demand for disinfectants is relatively stable, on the one hand, household consumption was relatively small before the outbreak, and there has been a small increase after the outbreak, and the size of the domestic disinfectant market is expected to reach 11.76 billion yuan. In addition, as a downstream industry of the chemical industry, the production of disinfectants itself is more obviously restricted by the upstream industry. At present, there are often problems in the use of disinfectants, such as configuration concentration is too low or beyond the use of the expiration date, can not effectively kill pathogenic microorganisms; chemical disinfectant concentration is too high will appear corrosion, poisoning and other phenomena; protective measures are not in place, causing harm to the human body; abuse of chemical disinfectants, so that microbial resistance, pollution of the environment, etc. Therefore, the development of disinfection effect is good, safe and environmentally friendly disinfectants is the future development trend of disinfectants.
The two most important brands in the disinfectant field in the domestic market are Willows and Dew, whose sales in Taobao platform reached 14.2 million yuan and 11.8 million yuan respectively. According to the disinfection strength to classify words, strong disinfectants chlorinated disinfectants peroxide (hydrogen peroxide, peroxyacetic acid), glutaraldehyde, dibromohydantoin, etc. as representatives; medium-effect disinfectants to alcohol (alcohol, isopropyl alcohol), iodine preparations (iodophor, iodine tincture), phenolic disinfectants (methyl phenol, p-chloro-m-xylene phenol), compound disinfectants (generally 75% ethanol as a mixture) as representatives; low-effect disinfectants to quaternary ammonium salts disinfectants (benzalkonium bromide, benzalkonium chloride), and biguanide disinfectants (chlorhexidine (chlorhexidine)). Unlike the traditional 84 disinfectant, the main disinfectant ingredient of Dilu and Willows products is still p-chloro-m-xylene phenol, compared to quaternary ammonium salt products, which are non-irritating, odorless, non-toxic and have a wider range of use.
The new crown epidemic is spreading worldwide and the shortage of epidemic prevention materials in many countries is becoming more and more serious. Among them, mainly in North America, Canada, Western Europe and other developed countries where the epidemic is more serious, the demand for various types of protective supplies has skyrocketed, and the search volume of masks and disinfectant solutions on major cross-border e-commerce platforms continues to soar, and it is difficult to find a mask around many countries. According to customs data show that the United States is the first object of China's disinfectant exports, exports of disinfectants to the United States accounted for 53.2% of total exports. In terms of export conditions, according to the EU ECHA regulatory agency, the EU has mandatory strict control over disinfection products and all disinfection products exported to the EU market must meet the compliance requirements of the EU biocide regulations. Companies whose disinfection products contain active substances that are existing active substances will only need to spend about 2 months to complete the requirements to be included in the list of qualified suppliers and will be able to sell in the EU market for at least 2 years. If you wish to trade for a longer period of time, you can subsequently continue to complete the product authorization. In contrast, disinfectants in the U.S. are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and are antimicrobial pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), which require completion of antimicrobial pesticide registration prior to marketing. From the perspective of the current epidemic, the future demand for disinfectants in the U.S. market will continue for a longer period of time.
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