New Surface Disinfectant Fights MRSA

A new silver-based hard surface disinfectant kills deadly methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus (MRSA) in just two minutes.

The new disinfectant, called Staph Attack, is based on silver dihydrogen citrate (SDC), an electrolytically generated source of stabilized ionic silver. While traditional silver-based disinfectants have very short shelf lives (from hours to days), SDC has a shelf life of several years. The unique bond of the silver ion in SDC allows the silver ion to remain in solution while at the same time making it more bio-available for antimicrobial action.

SDC kills microorganisms by two modes of action: (1) the silver ion deactivates structural and metabolic membrane proteins leading to microbial death; (2) the microbes view SDC as a food source, allowing the silver ion to enter the microbe. Once inside the organism, the silver ion denatures the DNA, which halts the microbe's ability to replicate and leads to its death. This dual action makes SDC highly and quickly effective against a broad spectrum of microbes. SDC is colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-caustic, formulates well with other compounds, and bacteria are unable to form a resistance to it.

Staph Attack provides broad spectrum protection as a disinfectant, fungicide, and virucide, and provides residual protection for 24 hours. It has been specifically formulated for closed populations where resistant bacteria are becoming increasingly problematic, such as hospitals, prisons, and schools. The hard surface disinfectant U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) registration includes a 30-second kill time on standard indicator bacteria, a 24-hour residual kill on standard indicator bacteria, a two-minute kill time on some resistant strains of bacteria, a 10-minute kill time on fungi, a 30-second kill time on HIV type I, and a 10-minute kill time on other pathogenic viruses. It carries an EPA category IV toxicity rating, the lowest available.

Staph Attack is the product of Pure Bioscience (El Cajon, CA, USA).



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