"It's the lipids that are really susceptible to ethanol-based hand sanitizers," Wilen explains, which break down that outer ...

Hand sanitizer alone isn't enough to protect you from norovirus, experts say. So it's important to know how to stay safe and ...

The study was published yesterday in mSphere. In a series of tests, the researchers from the Kyoto Profectural University of Medicine found that ethanol-based disinfectants, or hand sanitizers, would ...

In a study today in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Swiss and German researchers found that alcohol-based hand sanitizers recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) are effective in killing the ...

T oday ethanol has found its way into a range of applications from its original application as a beverage (wine and beer). It is used as a fuel, a chemical solvent, a disinfectant (hand sanitizer ...

For those unable to get their hands on hand sanitizer, a healthy splash of booze will do. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said that drinks with high alcohol content or ethanol for ...

and ethanol. The percentage of alcohol present in hand sanitiser is key to its efficacy – those with less than 60 per cent alcohol will be less effective at killing microorganisms, and will just ...

Correspondence to Dr Shiv Kapoor, Division of Neonatology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; skapoor{at}mdmercy.com Objective The aims of this study is to measure ...

On the contrary, to maintain hygiene & cleanliness and to ensure safety measures shared by the World Health Organization, the use of hand sanitizers increased exponentially. This caused massive ...

The solution came to them in the form of one of the ubiquitous items of the Covid-19 pandemic – hand sanitiser. The company put its supply of ethanol to good use and began making hand sanitiser ...

Sir Jim Ratcliffe's warning about Britain's chemical industry mirrors broader European concerns. With EU energy costs soaring ...