GLUTARAL - IQB®.

Glutaric Aldehyde or 1,5-Pentanodione (see structure below) is a dialdehyde of low irritant power and strong action, of wide antimicrobial spectrum, that works due to its oxidizing and breaking down action on the cell walls. For the last decades, it has been recommended as replacement for formol or formaldehyde, due to the latter's cancerogenic feature and to the fact that it irritates mucus and the respiratory tract. Glutaric Aldehyde is not teratogenic in lab animals and has no mutagenic effect on them. Toxicity and irritability of Glutaric Aldehyde are moderate, with a threshold limit value (TLV) for 8 hs. of 0.2 p.p.m. Concentration of 2 % in its commercial presentation has an excellent performance as biocide and a very high safety margin for manipulation and use. The use of this product is particularly recommended in the Biosafety Ruls of the National Health Department and in almost all the Reglamentations on the subject in the worlk. It is also recommended by almost all the manufacturers of endoscopic instruments, for their disinfection of high level and/or sterilization. In neutral or slightly alkaline environments, this product develops its peak of efficacy, killing Gram + bacteria, Gram - bacteria, fungus, lipophilic virus, microbacteria, and even bacterial spores. Moreover, when the product is activated, the medium and the stabilizing and oxidizing additives of Glutaral I.Q.B.®, provides the product longer shelf life to surgical instruments in general, prevents drying and cracking of plastic and rubber materials, as well as the corrosion of the low quality stainless steel materials. Our Quality Control laboratory assesses every batch produced in accordance to demanding parameters, the results of which are saved in our data base so that every user can request and get, together with the product, the respective analytical protocol. Since the beginning of 2009, this product has the authorization issued by the ANMAT Medical Technology Department, in accordance to the latest resolution on registration of medical devices in MERCOSUR (Resolution No. 2318/2002; see at the bottom).