The difference between sanitary wipes and ordinary wipes

I. The difference between sanitary wipes and ordinary wipes

Sanitary wipes have the function of killing microorganisms, while ordinary wipes do not have the function of disinfection and sterilization.

1. Standard definition

1.1 according to the health standard for disposable sanitary products, GB15979-2002 4.4 and the technical standard for disinfection in 2.1.11.7 regulations on hygienic standards for health wet towel products: health wet wipes, besides must achieve microbiological standards for escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus killing rate shall be 90% or more, if you want to indicate the effect on fungi, still must rate of killing candida albicans 90% or higher, its bactericidal action must maintain at least 1 year at room temperature.

1.2 According to category 4 of GB/T 27728-2011 Wipes, human body wipes include ordinary wipes and sanitary wipes;

1.3 according to the hygiene wipes health requirements, WS575-2017 3.2 sanitary towel hygiene wet wipes, standard definition, hygiene wipes refers to: in nonwovens composite cloth, fabric, wood pulp, wood pulp paper as the carrier, add water and detergent raw materials, such as production, the processing object (e.g., hands, skin, mucous membrane and ordinary surface) with a clean antiseptic wipes.

Ii. Which is more in accordance with the law, sanitary wipes or disinfection wipes

According to the ministry of health about print and distribute the product label instruction management standard for disinfection, notify the health supervision hair [2005] 426 date file "standard of disinfection product label instruction management" article 18 disinfection product labels and instructions to ban with the following content: (2) health products such as wet wipes, wet wipes ban with disinfection, sterilization, in addition to bacteria, drug, highly effective, non-toxic, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, treatment of disease, reduce or alleviate the symptoms, anti-inflammatory, diminishing inflammation, no inspection based on the use of the object and the shelf life, etc.Sanitary wipes should also be prohibited from labeling the categories of inhibition/microbicide and the anti-inhibition/inhibition of bacteria without testing evidence.Anti-bacterial and bactericidal effects should also be prohibited in wipes.

Iii. Requirements for shelf life of sanitary wipes and ordinary wipes

According to GB/T 27728-2011 Wet wipes, there is no explicit requirement for the shelf life of wet wipes.The sanitary wipes have a clear requirement in WS575-2017 Sanitary Requirements for sanitary Wipes with a stability validity of 5.5 ≥1 year.

Iv. Environmental requirements for production of sanitary wipes and ordinary wipes

It is stipulated in table 1 of the standard 4 product health indicators that the total number of bacterial colonies (CFU /g or CFU /mL) of the ordinary wet wipes in the microbial index is no more than 200, while the index of the sanitary wet wipes is no more than 20. Obviously, the microbial index of the sanitary wet wipes is much more strict than that of the ordinary wet wipes.In the total number of fungal colonies (CFU /g or CFU /mL) : ordinary wipes ≤100, and sanitary wipes should not be detected.

The wet wipes standard belongs to gb15979-2002 Sanitary Standard for Disposable Sanitary Articles, which is mandatory. Among them, the 5 production environmental sanitation indicators in the standard clearly stipulate:

5.1 The total bacterial colony in the air of assembly and packaging workshop should be ≤2500 cfu/m3.

5.2 The total bacterial colony on the surface of the table should be ≤20 cfu/cm 2.

5.3 The total bacterial colonies on workers' hands should be no more than 300 CFU/hand, and no pathogenic bacteria should be detected.

Five, sanitary wipes why not do alcohol immersion solution

Alcohol as raw materials for the disinfectant, more applications in medical alcohol sponge, the product is usually a single independent packing, and hygiene wipes are usually more tablets, after opening, in the process of using alcohol volatile fast drying extremely easily, lose the function of the wet wipes, alcohol is flammable, pungent taste, skin degreasing, so in hygiene wipes basic did not use ethanol as the main soaking liquid.

Vi. Quality of sanitary wipes

Sanitary wipes must be tested by the authoritative organization to kill microorganisms. Sanitary wipes that do not meet the indexes for killing microorganisms belong to unqualified products, that is, sanitary wipes shall not be named. There are many sanitary wipes, long testing cycle and high testing cost, which is another reason for the small number of sanitary wipes manufacturers.