WHAT IS CHLORINE DIOXIDE AND HOW IT WORKS?
Chlorine dioxide is a pungent chlorine-smelling gas that dissolves in water. Compared to chlorine gas, chlorine gas hydrolyzes in water while chlorine dioxide dissolves in water without hydrolysis. This gives it a great advantage over other disinfecting agents, especially when it is used as a disinfecting agent. It remains as dissolved gas in water. It is the disinfectant preferred all over the world because it is safer, effective and cheaper than chlorine gas and chlorine-based products.
There is an electron gap in chlorine dioxide due to its chemical structure. Therefore, it can easily takes electrons. When chlorine dioxide encounters a pathogen, which is a harmful microorganism, it takes electrons from its cell wall. In this way, it leaves irreparable damage to the cell wall of the harmful microorganism. Other chlorine dioxide molecules, which rapidly penetrate through the damaged cell wall, reach the cell nucleus and kill the pathogen with the same destructive effect. Chlorine dioxide stops protein production in viruses and causes the virus to die.
ADVENTAGES OF CHLORINE DIOXIDE
MICROORGANISMS AND BACTERIA IN WHICH CHLORINE DIOXIDE IS EFFECTIVE:BACTERIA:Blakeslea trispora, Bordetella bronchiseptica, Brucella suis, Burkholderia mallei, Burkholderia pseudomallei, Campylobacter jejuni, Clostridium botulinum, Corynebacterium bovis, Coxiella burneti (Q-fever), E. Coli, Erwinia carotovora (soft rot), Franscicella tularensis, Fusarium sambucinum (dry rot), Fusarium solani var. coeruleum (dry rot), Helicobacter pylori, Helminthosporium solani (silver scurf), Klebsiella pneumonia, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus brevis, Lactobacillus buchneri, Lactobacillus plantarum, Legionella, Clostridium dificile, Legionella pneumophila, Leuconostoc citreum, Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Listeria innocua, Listeria monocytogenes, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Multiple Drug Resistant Salmonella typhimurium (MDRS), Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium fortuitum, Pediococcus acidilactici, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella, Shigella, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus faecalis, Tuberculosis, Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis (VRE), Vibrio strain, Yersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia pestis, Yersinia ruckerii
VIRUSES:Adenovirus Type, Calicivirus, Canine Parvovirus, Coronavirus, Feline Calici Virus, Foot and Mouth disease, Hantavirus, Hepatitis A Virus, Hepatitis B& C Viruses, Human coronavirus, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Human Rotavirus type 2 (HRV), Influenza A, Minute Virus of Mouse (Parovirus)(MVM-i), Minute Virus of Mouse (Parovirus)(MVM-p), Mouse Hepatitis Virus, Murine Parainfluenza Virus Type 1 (Sendai), Newcastle Disease Virus, Norwalk Virus, Poliovirus, Rotavirus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Sialodscryoadenitis Virus (Coronavirus)(SDAV), Simian rotavirus SA-11, Theiler’s Mouse Encephalomyelitis Virus (TMEV), Vaccinia Virus
FUNGAL/ALGAES/MOLDS/YEASTS:Alternaria alternata, Aspergillus, Botrytis species,Candida, Chaetomium globosum, Cladosporium cladosporioides, Debaryomyces etchellsii, Eurotium, Fusarium solani, Lodderomyces elongisporus, Mucor, Penicillium, Phormidium boneri, Pichia pastoris, Poitrasia circinans, Rhizopus oryzae, Roridin A, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Stachybotrys chartarum, T-mentag (athlete’s foot fungus), Verrucarin A