Has anyone used Chlor-clean tablets to sanitize?
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Chlor-clean tablets
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Graham
Re: Chlor-clean tablets
If they are based on sodium dichloroisocyanurate they will be fine. Such tablets are usually formulated such that one tablet gives 1000ppm of chlorine in a litre of water. 200ppm is more than enough, so one tablet in five litres will be fine if the stuff is pre-cleaned. They are probably more effective than bleach because the pH will be in a more appropriate area, due to there being no caustic in them. More expensive than bleach, but more reliable because they are of known concentration.dopejack wrote:Has anyone used Chlor-clean tablets to sanitize?
I have started to use Blitz bleach tablets which are available in packs of 36 from my local PoundWorld.
Milton tablets are similar but they are half the strength and twice the price. Incidentally, Milton use them at 100ppm on babies bottles as no-rinse.
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adodman
Re: Chlor-clean tablets
We use Chlor clean tablets at work in ICU to terminally clean bed areas after a patient has been in the bed area with infections like MRSA or C Diff.
It has a detergent combined with a chlorine based steriliser to kill the germs. It saves on having to clean twice, once with a detergent and then the sanitiser. It takes about 10 mins for one tablet to dissolve in a litre of water and you have to ensure you do it in an open vessel as gas is given off during the dissolve process. There have been one or two incidents of bottles bursting or spraying of the solution when opening caps that had been closed. Because of the detergent element you wont be able to use it in a no rinse way but you can just launch it into dirty equipment, clean and soak and then just rinse off rather than washing in detergent, rinsing that off then decontaminating and possibly rinsing that off too.
It is very effective in the hospital setting though so I should imagine it will be ok for brewing purposes. I might have to 'borrow' some and try it
More info. http://www.guest-medical.co.uk/environm ... viron.html
Hope this helps
Andrew
It has a detergent combined with a chlorine based steriliser to kill the germs. It saves on having to clean twice, once with a detergent and then the sanitiser. It takes about 10 mins for one tablet to dissolve in a litre of water and you have to ensure you do it in an open vessel as gas is given off during the dissolve process. There have been one or two incidents of bottles bursting or spraying of the solution when opening caps that had been closed. Because of the detergent element you wont be able to use it in a no rinse way but you can just launch it into dirty equipment, clean and soak and then just rinse off rather than washing in detergent, rinsing that off then decontaminating and possibly rinsing that off too.
It is very effective in the hospital setting though so I should imagine it will be ok for brewing purposes. I might have to 'borrow' some and try it
More info. http://www.guest-medical.co.uk/environm ... viron.html
Hope this helps
Andrew