https://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2020/06/02/a-dallas-company-touts-its-spray-on-coating-as-a-covid-19-killer-for-surfaces/Once the coating is allowed to be used more widely, workers wouldn’t need to regularly wipe down surfaces at places like grocery stores or restaurants.
“Nobody wants to go out and think that something is contaminated or dirty,” Ruley said.
Because the coating is antibacterial and antiviral, it will reduce the spread of not only coronavirus but also other respiratory viruses like the common cold or flu. Gerba said he hopes universities, sporting events and public transportation will use the coating.
“If you take a bus to work, you’re six times more likely to get a cold,” Gerba said. “I think mass transit is a good place to start using it.”
The average adult touches his face 15 to 24 times an hour and the average child does so 40 to 50 times an hour, Gerba said. It’s easy for viruses to travel and infect someone when they directly transfer it to their nose, mouth or eyes.
Most of a
virus will be inactivated within an hour of coming in contact with the coating, with 90% eliminated within a few minutes.
“It seems like Mother Nature is always out to get us because with influenza, Ebola, the original SARS and now coronavirus again. This is not going to end.”
In early May, Allied BioScience hired former Dallas Cowboys player and three-time Super Bowl champion Daryl Johnston to be the company’s senior adviser in sports marketing. He’ll help market the antimicrobial products to the sports industry.
Allied BioScience has about 50 employees and works with startups and large companies in health care, professional sports, travel and hospitality, manufacturing, residential areas, commercial and retail facilities. The company, which received an undisclosed investment in April from venture capital firm Lydia Partners, declined to discuss its annual revenue.
Its
SurfaceWise product is used throughout Texas hospitals as a defense against bacteria. Allied BioScience
began to tweak the spray earlier this year, hoping to make it both antibacterial and antiviral.
So why isn’t everyone using it already?
Allied BioScience’s new product is preregistered as a pesticide with the Environmental Protection Agency, and it takes six to nine months to get it approved for wider use. Allied BioScience CEO Mike Ruley said he’s seeking emergency waivers and exemptions to speed up the process.
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Once applied, it’s non-toxic, non-irritating, odorless and contains no chemicals that produce harmful vapors or gases.