Efficacy of High-Level Disinfectionwith CIDEX®OPA Solution OPA Solution
Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) pose a serious threat to patient safety, affecting more than 2 million patients every year in the United States an
CIDEX®OPA Solution has no offensive odor. In contrastto glutaraldehyde, the Occupational Safety & HealthAdministration has not set permissible ex
that a 0.5% OPA was rapidly mycobactericidal underboth “clean” and “dirty” conditions.19In particular, the solution was active against glutaraldehyde-
mixture was dried on Petri dishes and recovered asdescribed above. Exposure to 0.5% CIDEX®OPA Solutionfor 5 minutes at 20°C caused a .4-log reduction
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