Cleaning & Disinfecting

Surface Disinfectants & Ultrasonic Solutions

Hospital-grade disinfectant wipes, hand sanitizers and ultrasonic cleaning solution for instrument trays before the autoclave — for Canadian clinics and facilities.

Two items Canadian clinics reorder most often in this category: the CliniEco Ultrasonic Multi-Enzyme Cleaning Solution — Low-Foam Concentrate, 1:400–1:600 for the ultrasonic bath, and the CliniEco Medical Alcohol Prep Pads — 70% Isopropyl, 200-Pack for small-surface work between patients.

What counts as cleaning, disinfection and hand hygiene in a clinic?

They are three separate jobs with three separate products, and mixing them up is the most common source of both wasted stock and failed audits. Cleaning is the removal of soil — blood, protein, bioburden, residue — from a surface or an instrument, using a detergent or an enzyme solution in water; nothing is claimed about organisms, only that the soil is gone. Disinfection is a chemical step applied to a surface or a device for the contact time printed on that product's label, and only for the surfaces that label lists. Hand hygiene is hand antisepsis: an alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water applied to hands, at the moments your infection control policy defines. A clinic needs all three lines stocked, but no single product substitutes for another — an alcohol prep pad is not a surface wipe, and a hand rub is not a surface disinfectant.

Which product covers which job — surface wipes, alcohol prep pads or hand sanitizer?

The decision is made by the surface and by the label, not by habit. Individually wrapped alcohol prep pads are a small-surface, single-use format: equipment surfaces, vial caps, cuffs and the small items your procedure protocol names. A surface disinfectant is a separate product whose label states which organisms it is intended for and how long it must stay wet; that category is stocked and sold as its own line, so read the individual product page for the format currently shipping before you build a protocol around it. Hand rub is for hands only, at the point of care. The table below maps the formats we stock in this collection to the job each one is built for.

Format, job and the parameters printed on each product page
Product format	Job it is built for	Key parameters (from the product page)	Notes
Alcohol prep pads, individually wrapped	Small surfaces and equipment, single use	70% isopropyl alcohol, USP grade; 2-ply non-woven pad, medium size; foil-wrapped	200 pads per box; bulk case of 10 boxes (2,000 pads)
Foam hand sanitizer refill	Hand hygiene at dispensers in corridors, reception and operatories	1200 ml sealed bag-in-box; 75% ethanol	Refills bag-in-box foam dispensers; keep one spare bag per dispenser
Ultrasonic multi-enzyme concentrate	Cleaning step in the ultrasonic bath, before sterilisation of instruments	Dilutes 1:400–1:600; protease, lipase, amylase and cellulase plus biosurfactants; 2–10 minute cycle at 20–50 °C	Low-foam, phosphate-free; supplied as a 1 L bottle or a 5 L pail
Clinic pack hand rub, 12 x 60 ml	Room-by-room coverage across a whole clinic	12 bottles of 60 ml; 70% ethyl alcohol (v/v); NPN 80122015	One bottle per operatory, exam room, lab bench and reception desk
Single 60 ml hand rub bottle	Chairside and point-of-care refill	60 ml; 70% ethyl alcohol (v/v); NPN 80122015	Same NPN as the clinic pack — match the number on the bottle you receive

Why does ultrasonic cleaning need a multi-enzyme solution, and how do you dilute the concentrate?

An ultrasonic bath delivers cavitation energy, but cavitation alone does not lift dried blood and protein out of box locks, serrations and lumens — a chemistry step has to break the soil down, and that chemistry has to be low-foam, because foam absorbs the energy before it reaches the instrument surface. The concentrate we stock is formulated for that job: four enzyme classes (protease, lipase, amylase and cellulase) plus biosurfactants, working in a 2 to 10 minute cycle at 20–50 °C, phosphate-free, freely rinsable and non-corrosive to stainless steel, anodised aluminium and plated instruments. Dilution is 1:400 to 1:600 — a 6 L tank takes 15 ml of concentrate at 1:400 or 10 ml at 1:600, and a 5 L pail makes 2,000 to 3,000 litres of working solution. Measure the dose with a graduated cylinder or the pump your supplier specifies, and record it on the bath log; a visual guess is how tanks end up either under-dosed or foaming over.

Concentrate pack, working solution and the dose for a 6 L ultrasonic tank
Pack	Concentrate volume	Working solution at 1:400–1:600	Dose for a 6 L tank
1 L bottle	1,000 ml	400–600 L	15 ml at 1:400 / 10 ml at 1:600
5 L pail	5,000 ml	2,000–3,000 L	15 ml at 1:400 / 10 ml at 1:600 (dose scales with tank volume)
10 L tank (dose scaled from the same ratio)	—	—	25 ml at 1:400 / 17 ml at 1:600

How much should a small Canadian clinic or dental office stock for a month?

Work from consumption, not from shelf space, and count the unit you actually replace. For hand rub, count dispensers: one 1200 ml bag-in-box refill serves one dispenser, so the question is how many clinical days a bag lasts at your traffic — measure it for two weeks, then multiply. Where single bottles are used room by room, a Aurelia Hand Sanitizer Clinic Pack — DermaSeptyl 2-in-1 Moisturizing, NPN 80122015, 12 × 60 ml covers twelve rooms and tells you the replacement interval without any estimating. For pads, count procedures that name a pad in your protocol rather than staff headcount, since pads are consumed per procedure, not per person. For the ultrasonic concentrate, litres of working solution per week is the only number that matters: divide your weekly bath volume by 400 (at 1:400), and that is the concentrate volume you need in millilitres.

Which documents and label facts should a Canadian buyer check before ordering?

Five things, and all five are on paper rather than on a promise. First, the NPN: hand sanitizers sold in Canada carry a natural product number, and each formulation has its own — the Aurelia 60 ml bottle and the 12 x 60 ml clinic pack in this collection both carry NPN 80122015, so match that number against the bottle you receive rather than against a generic rub. Second, the SDS for any concentrate: keep it where the people who dilute the product can reach it, and check the dilution and temperature ranges against the label. Third, the lot number and expiry on the carton — record them on your receiving log, because expiry-driven reordering is what stops a clinic running out mid-month. Fourth, the invoice, with the exact variant ordered (box, case, pack size), so that a 200-pad box is never booked in as a 2,000-pad case. Fifth, for any surface disinfectant, the contact time and the surfaces on the label, because that is the only claim you can defend. CliniEco Medical distributes these products under MDEL #35334.

How do you compare formats or find a substitute without over-buying?

Compare the unit you consume, not the pack you buy. For concentrates, the comparison is cost per litre of working solution, which comes from the dilution ratio — a 1:600 dilution stretches a pail 50% further than 1:400, so the ratio belongs in the comparison before any pack size does. For consumables, compare price per pad, per bottle or per fill, and check the variant name printed on the product page rather than the URL, because pack sizes change and the address often does not. Substitute within a category, never across one: a liquid disinfectant cannot stand in for an alcohol prep pad, and a hand rub cannot stand in for a surface product, even when the active ingredient looks similar. Where a format is temporarily unavailable, buy the next size up in the same product rather than a different chemistry.

Where can you take this before your next order?

The compliance log center holds printable cleaning, disinfection and monitoring logs you can post at the station; the clinic supply planner works out how much of each line a clinic of your size goes through in a period, so the quantities above become your numbers; and if your policy or an inspector has raised a question about the cleaning step before sterilisation, ask a compliance specialist. Clinics ordering across several rooms or sites usually start with the clinic supply catalogue, and long-term care and multi-site purchasing teams plan stock across the long-term care supply catalogue instead of one room at a time.