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|||||III US005496858A United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 5,496,858 Eggensperger et al. (45) Date of Patent: Mar. 5, 1996 54 AQUEOUS DISINFECTANT CONCENTRATE 4,040,977 8/1977 Eggensburger, II et al. ........... 252/.401 AND DISINFECTANT BASED ON 4,946,868 8/1990 Demarine et al. ....................... 514/544 ALDEHYDE AND ALCOHOL AND THEIR 5,037,989 8/1991 Willingham et al. ................... 548/213 5,185,145. 2/1993 Eggensburger, I et al. ......... 424/78.08 USE 5,234,832 8/1993 Disch et al. ............................ 435/264 (75) Inventors: Heinz Eggensperger; Bernd Lower, 5,250,573 10/1993 Magni ..................................... 541701 both of Hamburg; Michael Mohr, FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS Kaltenkirchen, Peter Goroncy-Bermes, Ahrensburg; Rolf Kleinwort, Wedel, all 0264658 4/1988 European Pat. Off.. of Germany 2433836 1/1976 Germany. (73) Assignee: Reckitt & Colman Inc., Montvale, N.J. Primary Examiner-Shep K. Rose Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Frederick H. Rabin; J. Richard (21) Appl. No.: 179,856 Everett (22 Filed: Jan. 11, 1994 (57) ABSTRACT (30) Foreign Application Priority Data Aqueous disinfectant concentrate which includes succinic dialdehyde, glutaraldehyde and/or formaldehyde, one or Jan. 15, 1993 DE) Germany .......................... 43 01295.7 more alcohols of limited water miscibility and optionally usual auxiliaries. By diluting with water, a working solution (51) Int. Cl. ............................ A01N 39/00; AO1N 47/44 can be prepared from the concentrate. The advantages of the 52 U.S. Cl. .......................... 514/693; 514/694; 514/696; new disinfectant concentrate or disinfectant are the reduced 514/701; 252/106 development of odor, animproved material compatibility, an 58) Field of Search ..................................... 514/544, 701, improved microbicidal effectiveness and a clearly increased 514/693, 644, 696, 724, 718, 731, 634, storage-stability. Furthermore, the activation usual up until 635; 252/606 now with disinfectants based on aldehyde is superfluous. Preferred application fields are surface and instrument dis 56) References Cited infection. U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 3,983,252 9/1976 Buchalter ................................ 424/333 10 Claims, No Drawings 5,496,858 1 2 AQUEOUS DISINFECTANT CONCENTRATE some cases and a phase separation in the concentrate and/or AND DESINFECTANT BASED ON in the working solution in other cases. ALDEHYDE AND ALCOHOL AND THEIR In the effort to reduce the glutaraldehyde content, a USE combination of phenoxyethanol with glutaraldehyde, form aldehyde or glyoxal is proposed e.g. in European patent The invention relates to an aqueous disinfectant concen application 0264.658, although it does obviously require the trate which includes aldehyde and alcohol and optionally addition of an alkaline activator to achieve sufficient effec additional auxiliaries, a disinfectant producible from it and tiveness and still relatively high active ingredient concen their use. trations during application. After use, medical instruments are usually disinfected by O chemical or physical processes. Physical processes such as The object of the invention was therefore to develop an heat or steam disinfection have admittedly become estab instrument disinfectant concentrate which, compared with lished in practice, but their general applicability is limited, the known preparations, shows a reduced odor development, particularly by the lack of thermal stability of many instru an improved material compatibility, an improved microbi ments, e.g. endoscopes. An essential disadvantage of the 15 cidal effectiveness and a clearly increased shelf life and known chemical processes is, however, their restricted makes the previously required activation superfluous. action spectrum against bacteria, fungi and viruses, toxicity To achieve this object, an aqueous disinfectant concen and insufficient material compatibility, particularly with the trate of the type mentioned at the beginning is proposed different plastics parts of thermolabile instruments. which is characterized in that it contains, as aldehyde, To achieve a comprehensive effectiveness which also 20 succinic dialdehyde, glutaraldehyde and/or formaldehyde includes viruses such as e.g. polio viruses and bacteria and, as alcohol, one or more alcohols which have limited spores, the active ingredients of choice are aldehydes such miscibility with water which have a water miscibility of 0.1 as formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde and succinodialdehyde to 2 wt.% and a vapor pressure at 20°C. of less than 2 mbar, (succinic acid dialdehyde). Products based on aldehydes A further subject of the invention is a disinfectant which also give good results as regards material compatibility 25 is obtainable from the disinfectant concentrate according to aspects. The following disadvantages are nevertheless asso the invention on dilution with water, and the use of the ciated with the individual active ingredients. disinfectant concentrate according to the invention and of Formaldehyde has a pungent odor and has recently not the disinfectant according to the invention. been completely accepted because of its sensitizing potential Preferred versions arise from the dependent claims and and because of the suspicion of a carcinogenic potential 30 the following description. among users. It was surprisingly found that by adding certain alcohols Glutaraldehyde displays almost the same properties, of limited water miscibility to solutions containing succinic namely a pungent odor and sensitizing potential; in addition, dialdehyde, glutaraldehyde and/or formaldehyde, satisfacto discoloration of the skin occurs with glutaraldehyde solu rily storage-stable disinfectant concentrates are obtained tions. Furthermore, glutaraldehyde, exactly like formalde 35 which show an improved microbicidal effectiveness with hyde, effects a rapid crosslinking of organic material, which improved material compatibility and reduced odor develop makes it more difficult to remove impurities from instru ent. ments, the success of disinfection in the inside of endo The limited water miscibility of the mono- or polyhydric scopes in particular being put at risk (cf. H. Fleck, Pharma alcohols is 0.1 to 2 wt.% of the alcohols, relative to the zie (1989), 44, pages 345-347 and S. B. Coghill et al., 40 quantity of water. The vapor pressure at 20° C. of the Lancet I (1989), pages 388-389). alcohols suitable according to the invention is less than 2 It has therefore been continually attempted in recent mbar, preferably less than 1 mbar and particularly 0.5 mbar years to completely or partially replace glutaraldehyde with or less. Detailed in the following table are the water misci succinic acid dialdehyde (also called succinodialdehyde). bility and water solubility and the vapor pressure of some This occurred primarily because succinic acid dialdehyde 45 alcohols. crosslinks blood and protein significantly less rapidly, giving penetration into the inside of the possibly contaminated TABLE organic material. Solubility Vapor pressure In view of lack of stability, however, no free succinic acid in water at 20° C. dialdehyde was available until recently; rather, succinic acid 50 Alcohol (Wt. %) in mbar dialdehyde was offered in the form of its cyclic acetal, dimethoxytetrahydrofuran, from which succinic acid dial Ethanol water-miscible 67 2-propanol 41.6 dehyde could only partially be released through hydrolysis. 1-propanol 19 A standard commercial disinfectant is based on a mixture of Butylglycol <0.8 this acetal with further acetals (see e.g. DE-PS 2433 836) 55 Butyldiglycol 0.03 and succinic acid dialdehyde. Dimethoxytetrahydrofuran is Triethylene glycol t <0.01 1,2-propylene glycol <0.1 however a very volatile substance and therefore easily leads Polyethylene glycol, 400 <0.1 to odor nuisances. monophenylglycol ether t <0.1 Attempts to formulate the free succinodialdehyde which with 4 mol EO (Rewopal has been available for a short time (see EP 147593), which 60 MPG 40) 2-phenoxyethanol s2.4 0.04 is considerably more easy to tolerate than formaldehyde, Benzylalcohol S4 0.28 glutaraldehyde and dimethoxytetrahydrofuran, to stable n-hexyldiglycol s1.1 0.1 concentrations have come to nothing, particularly with high Phenoxypropanol isomer s0.8 0.05 concentrations of the active ingredient in the concentrate mixture (which lead to low application concentrations of the prod 65 Phenylethyl alcohol s2 0.08 uct). Instability was to be observed in two different respects. 3-phenyl-l-propanol S0.6 0.5 A reduction of the aldehyde content resulted analytically in 5,496,858 3 4 The water miscibility or water solubility of the alcohols which R2 has 10 carbon atoms, R is hydrogen and n is 8 to is determined by placing 0.2 g alcohol in a 20-ml test tube, 12. mixing it with DM (demineralized) water and vigorously The disinfectant concentrate or disinfectant can contain, shaking (Vibrofix VE 1 from IKA, maximum speed). If the as well as the essential components according to the inven alcohol has not dissolved after about 5 minutes, it is diluted tion given above, usual auxiliaries such as e.g. corrosion accordingly with DM water and shaken again. This proce protection agents, complexing agents, perfume and/or dye dure is repeated until the alcohol has dissolved. stuffs. It is, however, free from cation-active compounds and The following dilutions are carried out as standard: nitrogen-containing stabilizers such as e.g. imidazole or imidazole derivatives. O The pH value of the disinfectant concentrates according