Standard Guide for Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Hand Hygiene Topical Antimicrobial Products using ex vivo Porcine Skin

Importancia y uso:

5.1 The guide may be used to demonstrate the effectiveness of topical antimicrobial products using pigskin as a surrogate for human skin and the cup scrub technique for sampling.

5.2 The techniques described can be used to simulate Test Method E1174 and will use the pigskin substrate to overcome limitations posed by exposure of human subjects to potentially pathogenic microorganisms, while offering the benefit of applicability to a wide variety of hand-washing conditions that cannot be simulated in test tubes.

5.3 Use of the pigskin surrogate offers less expensive and higher throughput screening.

Subcomité:

E35.15

Referida por:

E2756-24A

Volúmen:

11.08

Número ICS:

07.100.99 (Other standards related to microbiology), 71.100.35 (Chemicals for industrial and domestic desinfection purposes)

Palabras clave:

antibacterial; contaminants; cup scrub; efficacy; handwashes; healthcare; pigskins; resident microorganisms; transient microorganisms;