In 2021, the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority (NPRA) established regulatory guidelines for surface disinfectants to undergo voluntary registration for the first time. Now, after 3 years and multiple minor amendments...
In 2021, the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority (NPRA) established regulatory guidelines for surface disinfectants to undergo voluntary registration for the first time. Now, after 3 years and multiple minor amendments...
Did you know we are now one of the approved laboratories by Association for Applied Hygiene (VAH) in Germany? If you are thinking of penetrating the disinfection market in Germany, come learn about VAH certification and its efficacy requirements with us. What is VAH certification? VAH certification is a unique quality mark for disinfectant...
Have you ever gotten flabbergasted by your product’s efficacy results? Research and development can be a long and strenuous process and when you finally get to the last stage of testing but the product does not perform the way you expected, it can be very disappointing. Our experts at TECOLAB are no strangers to that...
The bloom in the disinfectant market has conceivably led to the need to develop disinfectants or biocidal products displaying increasingly unique and enhanced antimicrobial claims to dominate the market. Through this, manufacturers seek out a variety of tests to substantiate more and more claims for their products which might be challenging yet rewarding and, in...
What is EN 14885? Being a part of the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) field, EN 14885 has become our holy grail, the one thing we all look to when it comes to bringing a new biocide or chemical disinfectant into the world. In other words, EN 14885 is the guideline for disinfectant efficacy test...
Have you seen that NPRA released the new Guidelines for Control of Cosmetic Products in Malaysia? This now includes more informative guidelines for registering hand sanitizer and hand wash products, especially so for non-alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Before we dive deeper into the new requirements for registering your hand sanitizers with NPRA, are you aware that...
In the past month, monkeypox cases all over the world has been significantly growing, causing international panic. To date, there have already been over 2,000 monkeypox cases reported across 40 countries globally outside of West Africa, countries that do not usually see monkeypox infections and are not endemic for monkeypox virus such as Canada, United...
“Check out this new UVC lamp I got! This could be a game changer in the disinfection market, don’t you think?” – It has been decades since Ultraviolet-C (UVC) radiation is effectively used in reducing the spread of microorganisms. Now, with the COVID-19 outbreak looming over us for the past 2 years and it does...
“Hey, Robin, you know, most of our competitors already have a coronavirus claim on their products like us, and I’m not quite sure what can we do to stand out more.”—During the COVID-19 virus outbreak, most disinfectant manufacturers elevate their products’ uniqueness either by reducing the kill time to just mere seconds or to test...
“Who would have known zombies existed amongst bacteria as well? *cues eerie music*”—Just as how you see it in the movies, a bio-engineered virus causes humans to turn into a never ending brain-eating walking machine. A popular biocidal metal used for centuries, silver has the ability to turn bacteria into, well, zombies. Silver, in its...