MRSA wipes problem already solved and available to NHS says hygiene technology expert

18^th Jun 2008

The solution to the problem of disinfectant wipes spreading MRSA in hospitals is already available and operational within the food industry and has also been proven to be effective within a hospital setting says one of the UK's leading cleaning technology companies.

Byotrol plc is an AIM listed company that has developed a revolutionary technology which directly addresses the problem of wipes spreading infection and the company's products are already approved or in use in the food industry with organisations including Heinz and Marks and Spencer.

And the technology has also been proven to significantly reduce the spread of MRSA in a hospital setting in a six month independently supervised study, undertaken in 2006 at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary where it was shown that using wipes impregnated with Byotrol technology on around of 5% of high contact surfaces reduced the incidence of MRSA by up to 50% and for several weeks during the trial there was no MRSA detected at all.

Since this study at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, the Byotrol technology has been made available to the NHS via leading healthcare supplies and services provider Synergy Healthcare who licenced the technology within weeks of the data from the study being made public

The Byotrol technology can address the issue of wipes spreading MRSA which has been highlighted by a Cardiff University Study.
According to Byotrol Deputy Chairman Stephen Falder, "We have the solution to the problem of conventional wipes spreading MRSA and what's more it is a proven solution that is already in use.

"The findings of the Cardiff study come as no surprise to us because hospitals are essentially using a post war old technology to manage a 21st century issue.

"Our technology is really special because Byotrol continues to kill micro-organisms after the wipe has been used, unlike current products that stop working as soon as they dry and this means that even if Byotrol impregnated wipes do spread microbes such as MRSA around they will be killed where they remain by the residual action of our technology..

"Put simply if you clean a surface with a wipe impregnated with Byotrol the cleaning process will continue on and on literally wiping out any microbial survivors as opposed to just moving them about.

"We concur with many of the findings of the Cardiff University Study and know that our technology can move a long way to solving this issue now. This is not just a bright idea or a wish list. Our technology is proven and it is available to the NHS. Hospitals simply need to adopt it and hopefully the findings of the Cardiff study will be consigned, to history," Stephen Falder adds.

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