What Is the Difference Between Antiseptics and Disinfectants?

Disinfection and sterilization agents are agents that have the function of killing and inhibiting the production and growth of fungi, bacteria and spores.

Disinfectant

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Disinfection and sterilization agents are agents that have the function of killing and inhibiting the production and growth of fungi, bacteria and spores.

Chinese name

Disinfectant

Foreign name

disinfectant

Function

Kills and suppresses fungi, bacteria and spores

Classification

General purpose, food, medical, agricultural and animal husbandry

disinfectant

According to the bactericidal effect, it can be divided into reducing bactericide and oxidizing bactericide.

According to the sterilization process of materials, it can be divided into killing type, protective type and therapeutic type.

According to the main ingredients of the fungicide, it can be divided into:

Inorganic fungicides such as sulfites, bleaching powder, etc .;

Organic fungicides such as perpropionic acid, clotridime, benzoic acid, sorbic acid;

Organic ketone fungicides such as trichlorophenone; organic mercury fungicides such as sulfa mercury;

Organochlorine fungicides such as pentachlorophenol and dichloronaphthoquinone;

Sulfonamide fungicides such as aminobenzenesulfonic acid;

Thiocyanide fungicides such as dinitrate;

Phenolic fungicides such as phenol;

Aldehyde fungicides such as formaldehyde;

Ester fungicides such as parabens;

Surfactant fungicides, etc.

According to the purpose, there are general purpose, edible, medical, agricultural and animal husbandry, cleaning and so on.