Sanitizing compositions and methods

US6551975B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Keith Homer Baker · Cincinnati, US
• Ulrich Kleinsteuber · Grimbergen, BE
• Richard Timothy Hartshorn · Wylam, GB
• Massimo Morini · Tervuren, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 30, 2001
• Grant date: Apr 22, 2003
• Expiry date: Mar 30, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11D3/3947
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A hydrophobic bleaching agent comprising a peroxyacid having a carbon chain of at least 9 carbon atoms is used for the reduction of the activity of micro-organisms that have a cell wall containing high levels of peptidoglycan. Such micro-organisms include yeast and gram positive bacteria.