Avaliação da qualidade de desinfetantes clandestinos comercializados em Caicó - RN.

Abstract

Disinfectants are products that must be submitted to Health Surveillance, respecting their singularities, and must be produced, stored, transported and discharged in order to provide the necessary security for their use. The circulation of forbidden sanitizing products in the country put at risk the health population, because their formulations do not have own ingredients for purpose informed, or contain in a small quantity or increased, being considered, for this reason, & trouble for public health and a challenge for Health Surveillance. The forbidden sanitizing products are interesting due to low price, because they do not serve what they promise and, mostly, are products that have strong colors and nice smell, however they are not efficient against microorganisms. Differently from the forbidden disinfectants, the registered disinfectants have a much higher price, color and fragrance are not so pleasant, but they are extremely effective. Therefore, the present study intends analyze the effectiveness of forbidden disinfectants front of Staphylococcus aureus e Pseudomonas aeruginosa samples. In this study, two forbidden and one registered disinfectants were tested. After that, it was established a low efficiency in one of the forbidden disinfectant, while the other had no efficiency. Otherwise, when the tests were developed with the registered one it showed e superior efficiency.