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9th CAHMV – Save the Date

Our 9th Conference of Applied Hygiene, Microbiology and Virology will take place this year on 30 November + 01 December 2023, again as a hybrid event online and in the picturesque Hamburg Speicherstadt. You can look forward to exciting lectures and key note lectures by, among others, Professor Dr. Kurt-Wilhelm Stahl, Freiburg, as well as Dr. Florian H. H. Brill.

You can already make a non-binding reservation for your participation - simply send an e-mail to claudia.steinfath@brillhygiene.com.

Online Update Hygiene and Infection Prevention #12: Reprocessing of transvaginal ultrasound probes

The Online Update Hygiene and Infection Prevention goes into the 12th round! On 04.07.2023 the online update with the main topic reprocessing of transvaginal ultrasound probes will take place from 10:00 am - 12:00 noon.

All information about the free registration and the program can be found on the website of Life Science Nord: LINK

7th International Consortium on Prevention & Infection Control (ICPIC)

This year's "International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control (ICPIC)" will take place in Geneva from 12.09.2023 to 15.09.2023. If you are going to visit the ICPIC, please take the opportunity to meet Dr. Florian Brill and Dr. Kerstin Walendy-Gnirß on site, who would be very happy about an exchange.

In terms of content, our institute is represented this year with the following contributions:

Poster: INCREASING PATIENT SAFETY THROUGH A NEW PHASE 3 SIMULATED-USE TEST FOR CHEMICAL SURFACE DISINFECTANTS, Dr Florian H. H. Brill, Program Number P206

Poster: COMPARISON OF MANUAL DISINFECTION USING ALCOHOL BASED WIPES AND AUTOMATIC UV-C RADIATION WITHOUT PRIOR CLEANING, Prof. Johannes K. Knobloch, program number P400

Poster: ACTIVITY OF SURFACE DISINFECTANTS AGAINST MULTI-DRUG-RESISTANT ORGANISMS ISOLATED IN THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HAMBURG-EPPENDORF (UKE), Dr Florian H. H. Brill, program number P200

For more information on ICPIC, please click here: LINK

Research project ICEBIO: Start of the second project phase

The search for PhD students for the ICEBIO research project has now been successfully completed. The second phase of the project, which is now starting, will focus on training the PhD students for upcoming sampling and laboratory experiments.

ICEBIO is a PhD network that will train the next generation of experts in glacier microbiology and biogeochemistry. ICEBIO will provide a database of the functional diversity and potential of the glacier biome, which will not only greatly improve our understanding of a threatened biome, but also demonstrate the potential for exploiting economic and ecological services.

Dr. Brill + Partner GmbH will, among other things, provide a risk assessment regarding pathogenic organisms from the glacier biome, including the inclusion of bacteria, fungi, and viruses.

Further Information: https://www.icebio.eu/pages/project/index.html

The ICEBIO Doctoral Network is supported by a grant from the European Commission’s MSCA Doctoral Network program under project number 101072761

Services of Dr. Brill Genomics

Dr. Brill Genomics offers molecular biological techniques in the fields of hygiene, cosmetics, dermatology, pharmacy and food industry. For more information on sampling and DNA/RNA extraction, quantification of microorganisms, genes and viruses by quantitative polymerase chain reaction, microbiome and cosmetics, please watch the video here or visit this page: https://brillinstitutes.com/genomics

VUP General Meeting elects new presidium

The General Meeting of the VUP elected a new Presidium today in Berlin. Dr. Florian H. H. Brill, Raimund Föhrenbacher, Dr. Emine Gökçe, Dr. Eckard Jantzen and Dr. Birgit Schumacher will lead the association in the next 2 years on a voluntary basis. Jutta Fink and Arthur Hofmann retired from the Executive Committee and were thanked very much.

Harvest time

Current publications on successfully completed UBA projects.

Recently, several final reports and publications on several projects have been published:

Further development of screening tests for the evaluation of potential PBT substances, UBA-Texte 10/2023.
Award criteria for the certification of antifouling systems with the Blue Angel,. UBA-Texts 25/2023
Methods and criteria for assessing the ecotoxicity of products, UBA-Texts 151/2022, see also UBA topic page on construction products with specialist publications.
The authors and the laboratory team are delighted with the successful completion of the projects, which have been ongoing for several years.

EWMA 2023 in Milan

From May 3rd - 5th 2023 the 33rd EWMA will take place in Milan.

From our company, Dr. Florian H. H. Brill, Dr. Diana Mogrojevo and Vanessa Wiencke are co-authors on the presentation "ANTIMICROBIAL TESTING OF WOUND DRESSINGS USING A STANDARDIZED WOUND INFECTION MODEL" by Cornerlia Wiegand.

The presentation will take place on 04.05.2023 from 17:30 - 17:38. Further information about EWMA can be found HERE

Dr. Brill optimized high-speed services for efficacy testing of antimicrobial products (EN 14885, ISO 21702, ISO 22196, ISO 20743, ISO 18184)

Dr. Brill has built up capacities for efficacy testing of antimicrobial products such as disinfectants, antiseptics, antiviral and antimicrobial surfaces etc.

We can offer the quickest turnaround times of 4 weeks for most test organisms and due to technical reasons 6 weeks for e.g. mycobacteria and SV40. We ensure a 48 h return service in case requests from eCAs are coming in and need to be addressed.

In case you need a guaranteed 3 week-service (or 6 weeks for slower replicating organisms/viruses) we add a 25 % fee onto the normal price but then you get the guarantee and we are running for you.

The highly experienced labs are at your service. Take a look inside:

prEN 17430: In-Vivo Virucidal Activity screening of hand hygiene products in-vivo with 15 % discount.

Last year the prEN 17430 was published and the final norm is going in the formal vote now, it can be expected at the end of 2023. Of course the standard is established and accredited in our virucidal testing lab in Bremen. We offer a screening program for checking how your hand rubs with virucidal or limited virucidal spectrum activity are performing.

Until 31/10/2023 we offer the screening test with 15 % discount.

Take a look inside our laboratory:

Validation of disinfection procedures for pharma industry

In pharma industry production site that would like or need to change their hygiene regimen, the new established process has to be validated. Based on our phase 3-research project as well as existing standards such as EN 13697 and EN 16615 we can offer such validations with locally in the production site isolated test organisms and surface materials from the site.

Please contact us in case you are interested.

Phase 3-test developed with University Medical Center Hamburg UKE

Dr. Brill + Partner developed in a research project financed by the Hamburg health authorities and in cooperation with the Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf a phase 3 test model for surface disinfection procedures. The model includes clinical isolated organisms as well as practice-like surfaces from the hospital in the phase 3 step 1-test as well as the opportunity to perform field studies in the UKE. In addition, the application of the product was developed further meeting practical conditions.

The data will be presented on the DGKH-event on May 12 and 13 in Essen. The paper is in preparation but tests can be order with us as of now. In case you are interested please feel free to contact us.