SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Medizone
International, Inc. (The Company) (MZEI:OB, MZEI:QB), manufacturers
of the AsepticSure® Hospital Disinfection System, have recently
announced that the same biological indicators used to confirm
medical instrument sterilization in autoclaves, may also be used to
confirm absolute bactericidal kill for hospital room
disinfection.
Biological indicators are considered the only process indicators
that can directly monitor the lethality of a given cleaning process
and are recommended by the FDA for all autoclave usage. Spore test
strips have now become the reference standard for routine quality
assurance of hospital instrument sterilization and, according
to the FDA, they should be utilized with each autoclave load.
In laboratory testing Medizone has discovered that the same
spore test strips are completely inactivated (killed) when placed
in a room during an AsepticSure run. Over twenty-five runs have now
been completed using two different commonly used types of spore
test strips and in each case the results have been the same.
During testing, spore test strips that were placed under
beds, on the floor, on walls and behind objects are completely
deactivated 100% of the time. The implications of this finding are
profound in that our AsepticSure Hospital Disinfection System can
now demonstrate via independent, internationally recognized testing
processes, a level of decontamination previously not considered
achievable outside of an autoclave.
Hospital testing is confirming that once an isolation room has
been disinfected with the AsepticSure process, the "sick room
cycle" is broken, and no new infections will be generated from that
room for significant periods of time. This has proven true
for MRSA (staph infections), C.difficile and Pseudomonas
aeruginosa. The AsepticSure process is demonstrating a
previously unobtainable level of hospital room disinfection within
normal workflows while obtaining real reductions in new hospital
associated infection rates. AsepticSure is the only hospital
disinfection system that can guarantee a greater than 6-log
(>99.9999%) kill of infective pathogens throughout the entire
room, and now independently verify it with the same testing
products used to confirm instrument sterilization in
autoclaves.
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statements that could involve substantial risks and uncertainties,
including, but not limited to, the results of ongoing clinical
studies, economic conditions, product and technology development,
production efficiencies, product demand, competitive products,
competitive environment, successful testing and government
regulatory issues. Additional risks are identified in the company's
filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Investor Relations, Medizone International, Inc.
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Medizone International, Inc.
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