News Archive

We are happy to be a member of the Hanse Club now and to support the Handball Sport Verein Hamburg in the coming seasons!

Prof. Dr. med. Ewa Stürmer has won this year's Hygiene Prize of the Rudolf Schülke Foundation with her work "Comparative analysis of biofilm models to determine the efficacy of antimicrobials" (you can find the publication HERE).

The research project was funded by the Initiative Chronische Wunde ICW e.V. and carried out in cooperation with Professor Stürmer in our Hamburg laboratories. This project would thus be awarded the Hygiene Prize of the Rudolf Schülke Foundation.

Part of the project was also to establish a procedure that can be routinely performed in the laboratory. This was also successful. So if you are interested in the novel model, please feel free to contact us. 

Within the framework of this free online update, we would like to offer you the opportunity to inform yourself about important questions on the topic of hygiene and infection prevention and to exchange ideas with our experts from hospitals, research, politics and industry.

Topics and speakers:

Dr. Frank Schreiber - Senior Researcher, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM)

• Resistance of bacteria to biocides - evolution, mechanisms and methods

Dr. Roland Knieler - Managing Director Knieler & Team

• Approval of biocidal products: practical experience and current developments in product families

Dr. Annette Bitsch - Bereichsleiterin Chemikaliensicherheit und Toxikologie Fraunhofer ITEM

• Biozide wirksam aber auch toxisch? Diskussion ausgewählter toxikologischer Endpunkte und ihrer Bewertung im Zulassungsverfahren

More speakers will follow

All registration information can be found HERE

The online update is a cooperation event with Dr. Brill + Partner, MedWiss4you and HIHeal.

Life Science Nord GmbH coordinates the HIHeal network as the first so-called "Hamburg Cluster Bridge Project", whose funding is provided by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Another topic area within the project is eHealth, coordinated by Gesundheitswirtschaft Hamburg.

On April 12th, 2022, the German Association of Independent Testing Laboratories (VUP) established the Project Group Efficacy Testing of Antimicrobial Products. Dr. Claudia Hildebrandt, Prof. Dr. Katrin Steinhauer and Dr. Henrik Gabriel were elected to the board. In a keynote speech, we introduced the topic and possible fields of action. Important topics to be worked on in the project group include method development and standardization, knowledge transfer and exchange of experience, accreditation requirements and quality assurance through interlaboratory comparisons and comparative measurements. The project group offers the participants the opportunity to quickly exchange information and data in a dialog. In consultation with all parties, the further procedure is now being concretized. The relevant information for the new project group has been published on the VUP website and member platform MyVUPortal. The presentations and the minutes of the founding meeting will also be made available there shortly.
Interested and non-members of the VUP can still participate in this project group. If you are interested, please contact the VUP office.

This year's 16th Congress of Hospital Hygiene will take place from 01 to 04 May 2022 as a hybrid event. Also this year we are represented with some lectures. 

The following lectures will be held by speakers from our company: 

02.05.22, 16:45-18:15, Saal 2 - Salon 21 - Symposium Hygiene in der Zahnarztpraxis

• Virucidal potential of oral rinses and nasal sprays against SARS-CoV-2 and their mode of action: T. L. Meister (Bochum)

03.05.22, 10:30-12:00, Saal 1 - Berlin - Symposium Reinigung, Desinfektion und Sterilisation

• Fibrin-Prüfkörpermodell – Bestimmung der Leistungsfähigkeit von Reinigern für die manuelle Instrumentenaufbereitung: M. Wehrl, U. Rosenberg, F.H.H. Brill, H. Gabriel, A. Kampe, W. Michels, K. Roth, L. Schnieder, P. Frey, J. Köhnlein, O. Riebe, A. Hartung, R. Bloß, G. Kirmse, M.-T. Linner, D. Martini, M. Tschoerner, U. Weber, S. Krüger, H. Martiny, J. Gebel  (Krefeld, Zuchwil, Hamburg, Warburg, Tübingen, Schwerin, Frankfurt am Main, Tuttlingen, München, Lörrach, Gütersloh, Grünendeich, Berlin, Bonn)
• GA/PES-screen. Eine Schnelltest zum visuellen Nachweis von Desinfektionsmittelrückständen auf Endoskopen: A. Kampe, M. Wehrl, F. H.H. Brill (Hamburg, Krefeld)

03.05.22, 14:00-15:30, Saal 1 - Berlin - Symposium Reinigung und Flächendesinfektion

• Einflüsse der chemisch-physikalischen Formulierung alkoholbasierter Desinfektionsmittel auf die Wirksamkeit gegen das Adenovirus: M. Ruhlandt, A. Arndt, H. Henze, A. Dotzauer, B. Becker, D. Paulmann, F. H. H. Brill (Hamburg, Bremen)

04.05.22, 11:00-12:30, Saal 2 - Salon 21 - Symposium Freie Vorträge

• Das schafblutbasierte Wund-Biofilm-Modell(sb-BIOM). Eine praxisnahe Methode zur Wirksamkeitsevaluierung von antimikrobiellen Wundprodukten im Milieu chronischer Wunden: A. Kampe, V. Wiencke, F. H.H. Brill (Hamburg)

The complete program of this year's congress can be found HERE

The staff of Dr. Brill has diligently collected donations. They collected 843.43 €, which the company doubled. Half of the donations went to the account of "Aktion Deutschland Hilft" and half to "Hanseatic Help". We would like to thank all employees!

On behalf of the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA), the Institute for Antifouling and Biocorrosion of Dr. Brill + Partner GmbH has worked on a research project in cooperation with Hydrotox GmbH to develop award criteria for an eco-label (Blue Angel) for biocide-free antifouling products. 

These award criteria can now be found online on the UBA website: https://www.blauer-engel.de/de/zertifizierung/vergabekriterien#UZ221-2022.

Our colleagues on Norderney will be pleased to assist with the necessary efficacy tests. 

In our video "Overview of the Application Process for the VAH List of Disinfectants" you get an overview of the application process for the VAH List of Disinfectants from Dr. Florian Brill

Our Institute for Antifouling and Biocorrosion on Norderney has changed the location at the Norderney harbor by a few hundred meters. 

The new address is: Am Hafen 6, DE - 26548 Norderney.

The colleagues can now keep an eye on the ship traffic but also on the test objects at any time and are even closer to the fresh seawater for tests in the aquariums or for the current development of the "Mini-RotoMarin".

In the first annual issue of the magazine "Hygiene & Magazin" an article about the 7th Conference of Applied Hygiene and Microbiology and Virology was published. You can find the article HERE

You can find the original article HERE.

The next CAHMV will take place on 24.11.+25.11.2022, again as a hybrid event both at the "AMERON Hamburg Hotel Speicherstadt" and online. More information follows.

The storm surge Zeynep has raged in the night from Friday (18.02.22) to Saturday also on Norderney and caused a high water of 2.28 m. Our premises remained undamaged, only our garage was under water. 

On the video you can see our new location in the background and at the lifeboat one of our storage pontoons. However, pontoon and test plates were well moored and survived the storm well.

Dr. Brill receives new authorizations and thus expands the service portfolio - For our Hamburg laboratory we now have the authorization to work with notifiable and notifiable animal pathogens of protection level S2. You can download the authorization HERE. 

All other certificates for our various laboratories can be found HERE.