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"This indicates that ClO2 treatment of food-contact surfaces results in residual lethality to E. coli O157:H7 during the drying process." "We investigated the efficacy of sequential treatments of aqueous chlorine and chlorine dioxide and drying..."

Chlorine Dioxide's "bactericidal activity remains constant over a broader pH range from pH 3 to 8. In water, chlorine dioxide reacts rapidly to form chlorite ions. It is also a highly volatile compound that can easily remove from dilute aqueous solutions. During storing and reuse processes, it may lose its potency. In addition, chlorine dioxide gradually dissociates into chlorine and oxygen. Therefore, it must be stored in small containers or single use bottles"

"Based on the activity against the test organisms after 30-and 60-s exposures to each disinfectant, the disinfectant containing chlorine dioxide had the highest biocidal activity in this assay, on a mg/l basis. "

Aims: This study was undertaken to gain an understanding of the factors that influence viral RNA degradation in the presence of chlorine dioxide (ClO2), which will be very useful in helping to defin...

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(1979). Palin's titrimetric method for the analysis of chlorine in aqueous chlorine dioxide solutions was found to give low chlorine dioxide and high and variable chlorine estimations. It was determined that glycine, used in the titration for chlorine removal, was reacting with the chlorine dioxide during the titration. Replacement of glycine by oxalic acid gave reproducible and accurate chlorine and chlorine dioxide values. In solutions containing 3.5 to 15 mg of chlorine dioxide, chlorine (0.1 to 0.3 mg) could be determined with a standard deviation of 0.01 mg.

Purified Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts were exposed to ozone, chlorine dioxide, chlorine, and monochloramine. Excystation and mouse infectivity were comparatively evaluated to assess oocyst viability. Ozone and chlorine dioxide more effectively inactivated oocysts than chlorine and monochloramine did. Greater than 90% inactivation as measured by infectivity was achieved by treating oocysts with 1 ppm of ozone (1 mg/liter) for 5 min. Exposure to 1.3 ppm of chlorine dioxide yielded 90% inactivation after 1 h, while 80 ppm of chlorine and 80 ppm of monochloramine required approximately 90 min...

1967 "Washed suspensions of Escherichia coli were exposed to different concentrations of chlorine dioxide at various temperatures. Platings of the mixtures to evaluate the numbers of surviving cells were made after 5–300 sec of contact. Survival data were best fitted by a reaction model that is first order with respect to cell concentration and to exposure time. Bactericidal rates were found to increase markedly with both increased disinfectant concentrations and increased temperatures. Activation energies at each concentration of chlorine dioxide are reported."

Aims The efficacy of a novel photochemical method for generating chlorine dioxide (photoClO2) was evaluated against human noroviruses (HuNoV) surrogate, bacteriophage MS2, and Clostridium difficile ...

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Chlorine dioxide gas will inactivate any form of antimicrobial life including spores

"Chlorine dioxide (ClO2) acts as an oxidizing agent and reacts with several cellular constituents, including the cell membrane of microbes. By "stealing" electrons from them (oxidation), it breaks their molecular bonds, resulting in the death of the organism by the breakup of the cell. By altering the proteins involved in the structure of microorganisms, their enzymatic function is broken and causes very rapid bacterial kills. This oxidative attack on many proteins simultaneously is behind the potency of chlorine dioxide and also prevents microorganisms from mutating to a resistant form. Because of the selective reactivity of chlorine dioxide, its antimicrobial action is retained longer in the presence of organic matter than most other decontaminating agents."

{includes chlorine dioxide as a treatment}

Since mushroom growers often refer to disinfectants and sanitizers interchangeably, which is understandable, let's clarify some terms.

{Includes chart of acids' effectiveness in adjusting pH} "If you buy a 2% CLO2 product (Oxine), you are actually getting a 3.35% Sodium Chlorite in that jug or drum. It is essentially a 1.67 multiplier from the percentage of CLO2 that product claims...." "When using 5% stabilized CLO2 products like Pro Oxine after you achieve proper activation you will convert about 25% to 30% of that solution to CLO2. 70 to 75% of that solution will remain chlorite and be a part of your TOTAL working solution." "Pro Oxine’s product is buffered to an 8 to 8.5 pH solution while most tech grade products are buffered between a 9 to 10 pH solution, therefore the higher pKa acids perform poorly with tech grade chlorites. That is why you generally need more chlorite and more acid to generate FREE CLO2 with tech grade chlorites." "Around 2 to 2.5 pH for it to be effective at generating FREE CLO2." "Tech grade chlorites call for at least 15 minutes of contact with your acid or ‘activator’ before being administered into the water system. With Pro Oxine it calls for 10 minutes. This means it was able to generate the FREE component of the solution (actual CLO2) quicker. Pro Oxine was also able to get a FREE component at a lower TOTAL solution. " ***Other topic: "dropping the pH of the litter to below 4.0 will convert the litter into a medium hostile to the growth and survival of pathogenic bacteria. Normal gut flora, on the other hand, prefer a low pH environment so while dropping the litter pH to 4.0 or less will reduce pathogenic bacteria, it will actually create a favorable environment for healthy bacteria" "acidifying drinking water... assists in the establishment of normal flora, the exclusion of pathogens such as salmonella and the prevention of necrotic enteritis. The use of a mineral acid such as sodium bisulfate..."

{Titanium fittings were necessary when using liquid chlorine dioxide?}

The combined effect of aqueous chlorine dioxide (ClO2) and fumaric acid as a chemical treatment to inactivate pre-existing microorganisms was evaluate…

Aseptrol slow-release chlorine dioxide (in liquid). "30ppm chlorine dioxide to be mycobactericidal in 60 seconds and sporicidal in 1 to 5 minutes." "...this organic material did not affect the microbicidal properties of chlorine and chlorine dioxide. This is contrary to the finding of Isomoto who showed that organic material can compromise the efficacy of chlorinated compounds. " {Financial & time savings--Although manufacturers recommend daily prep, solution was found effective 27 days} "A study has shown the safety of chlorine dioxide on gingival fibroblasts (Nishikiori et al., 2008)"

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{MRSA inhibition} "ClO2-releasing hygiene stick showed the very strong inhibition of bacterial growth but had different inhibitions to the bacteria above 96.7% except for MRSA of 90% inhibition."

MMS - 28% solution of sodium chlorite, can also be used to make a disinfectant spray. The spray may be considered as a "none wipe spray" because one does not

******** "In water, chlorine dioxide is converted to chlorite and chlorate in a 70/15 ratio 4 "

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