Sanitising the world: a year on, what have we learned and what challenges remain?

As the Principal Chemist at Bioquell, an Ecolab solution, I have worked on researching and improving indicators used to validate Bioquell’s hydrogen peroxide vapour biodecontamination process. Bioquell manufactures and sells biodecontamination equipment, hydrogen peroxide bottles and indicators. Bioquell’s biodecontamination and infection control applications range from small enclosures (isolators, pass-throughs, etc.) all the way up to hospital wards and pharmaceutical manufacturing sites. How do we provide infection control for so many different applications? How do we decontaminate all surfaces in an enclosure or room in one go? Join to find out more about the technology and how it works.

David Ashworth is a Director of Klarus Consulting Limited, which advises the biocides community on building and delivering safe and effective claims. David is also Chairman of BluTest Limited, a contract microbiology testing and development company.
David is a member of the BACS (British Association for Chemical Specialities) secretariat, leads the BACS Biocides Group, is active on Standards committees both at local (BSI) and international (CEN) levels and works with European Trade Associations. He has worked closely with regulators in the EU, The European Commission and ECHA.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, Chartered Biologist and holds an MBA from Loughborough University.

Wilson Poon was one of the founders of soft matter physics research in Edinburgh, where he has been since 1990. His main interests are complex fluid rheology - from well-characterised model systems to real-life materials (such as caramel), and ‘active colloids’ - suspensions in which the particles are self-propelling ‘micro-swimmers’, which include suspensions of swimming bacteria.