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My-shield® is fully tested and proven to kill the novel coronavirus just like Purell.
ESC Brands to open new warehouse in West Virginia, may build in NC in the future.
UAH research shows contract company’s products kill COVID surrogate virus.
HUNTSVILLE,A.L., Sept 20, 2020/ uah.edu/ - Contract testing done for North Carolina-based ESC Brands LLC at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has shown two of the company’s Zetrisil-based sanitizers are as effective as alcohol and are persistent in killing a COVID-19 surrogate virus.
Zetrisil is the brand name for a compound containing proprietary silicons and benzalkonium chloride. Testing at UAH and two other institutions has confirmed Zetrisil’s virus-killing capabilities, though the ESC Brands products currently are FDA-registered to kill only bacteria. (Read more)
ESC Brands boasts three new products to kill COVID-19, Zetrisil® Is the scientifically proven answer to protect our children and more safely open schools.
GREENSBORO, N.C., Sept. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- ESC Brands is striving to assist with the safe opening of schools by better protecting children and staff from the further spread of the COVID-19 virus in the classroom environment. ESC's Zetrisil®-based products have been proved as effective as alcohol-based sanitizers, with proven persistence of activity without the toxicity and flammability concerns of traditional sanitizers. (Read more)
Alcohol-free hand sanitizer just as effective against COVID as alcohol-based versions
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY - Dec 2020 - A new study from researchers at Brigham Young University finds that alcohol-free hand sanitizer is just as effective at disinfecting surfaces from the COVID-19 virus as alcohol-based products.
The BYU scientists who conducted the study suspected that the CDC's preference for alcohol sanitizer stemmed from as-yet limited research on what really works to disinfect SARS-CoV-2. To explore other options, they treated samples of the novel coronavirus with benzalkonium chloride, which is commonly used in alcohol-free hand sanitizers, and several other quaternary ammonium compounds regularly found in disinfectants. In most of the test cases, the compounds wiped out at least 99.9% of the virus within 15 seconds. (Read more)