[The emission of toxic ingredients from disinfectant solutions into the air]

The development of peracidous disinfectants allows a disinfection, inactivating an incomparable large spectrum of microorganisms and showing special advantages of toxicology. There is no release of evaporable toxic substances into the air after disinfection with the exception of products based on peracetic acid. In this paper cell cultures are chosen as indicator for the toxicity of evaporable substances. It is shown that the cells were able to propagate in the presence of active oxygen containing disinfectants as well as in the blanc test. However, there was no propagation of cells in presence of formaldehyde, glutardialdehyde and peracetic acid.