Due to the numerous benefits of presaturated wipes — ease-of-use, lower VOCs, increased convenience and reduced hazardous waste — their use in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors has proliferated over the past few years. The original presaturated wipes were, in the main, alcohol-based while disinfectant presaturated wipes were less widely used.
There are now numerous disinfectant wipes available, used in both cleanroom and healthcare environments. With the changes to the transfer disinfection requirements for specials manufacturers in the UK and unlicensed aseptic units, now including a sporicidal wiping phase, there are also more sporicidal wipes available.1,2
However, as discussed in a previous article3, as there are known problems with adding certain disinfectant active ingredients to certain wipe or mop substrates,4,5,6,7 how does a customer ensure that a presaturated wipe works as effectively as a ready-to-use (RTU) fluid?
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