Answers to Common Product Questions
Where is Copper used in the United States?
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) approves copper for use in drinking water, agriculture, irrigation systems, and fish production. The National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) also certifies copper safe for use in public drinking water systems as an algae and bacteria control. The product has been on the market for 16 years with NO adverse effects. Furthermore, several large cities use copper sulfate pentahydrate in their municipal water systems including: San Diego, California; Cincinnati, Ohio; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Akron, Ohio; and the Washington D.C. aqueduct.
In drinking water isn’t Cu++ harmful to humans?
Is there a difference between using the product in ponds and elsewhere?
Do you have any inspections?
In order to solve this challenge, a bold new approach is needed. One that is cost competitive to traditional products, but that actually works, and one that ideally continues to kill long after the initial application. In a perfect world this new approach would kill the organisms in a typical traditional cleaning approach and then remain on the surfaces to continue killing but without traditional poisons to which microbes are able to adapt and develop resistance. Enter oligodynamic metals. What is an oligodynamic metal, and what is the oligodynamic effect? Oligodynamic metals are quite simply metals that kill germs. Oligodynamic is from Greek “oligos”, for few, and “dynamis”, for force, meaning even in very low concentrations, they continue to kill. Traditionally these metals have been used for thousands of years, to stave off infections, preserve foods or liquids, and kill germs. Things like brass doorknobs and copper countertops remain germ free and are self-sanitizing. Recently there have been a range of new nano-metal products, like colloidal silver that have been touted for their germ killing effect and are often mixed with hydrogen peroxide in order to sanitize surfaces.
At Germstopper we have taken a 21st century approach to using these metals, and we are using them in a space age formulation to solve a variety of sanitizing applications. For the last 10-15 years nanomaterials have been all the rage. Nano- coatings, nano-medicine, nano-vitiamins, nano-ceramic, and the list goes on and on. What makes nano materials so special is not just the small size, but the surface area that comes from that small size. Surface area, is especially important when it comes to sanitization. The greater the surface area of the disinfectant, the greater chance that it will come into contact with the germs that need to be killed. That is why we have partnered with a professor of pharmacology and developed a truly novel, mechanism to go far beyond this new traditional nano-materials approach, into the range of the angstrom or sub-nanometer range or the in other words the atom. Nanometer scales range from one nanometer to 1000 nanometers and encompass a wide range of sizes, the scale below nano is truly mind-boggling as we journey into the world of the atomic.
Our novel process, creates individual angstrom sized particles of oligodynamic metals, these metals are not “heavy” metals just incredibly small individual atoms of select elements that are food safe and necessary in the average diet, yet contain a powerful germ killing effect in low concentrations. We only use positively charged metals, which have a tendency to attract negatively charged pathogens via static charge or static cling. This effect is extremely powerful, and a simple brass pitcher has been shown to release minute amounts of copper ions into stored water, killing fecal coliform bacteria in counts as high as 1 million bacteria per milliliter! Copper Sulfate is used to destroy algae, and copper-b hydroxyquinoline is used in paint to prevent mildew. These formulas work, but contain other chemicals which can be more harmful to the environment than the simple metal atoms themselves. Our unique formula uses Cu++,and only that, just copper at the atomic size which means a massive surface area which kills the germs immediately and then stays attracted to the surfaces after the cleaning to keep on killing, for days or weeks, up to even months!
Best of all using our formulas can be done as a replacement for traditional cleaning products sanitizing products, or as an addition, to the cleaning formulas that are already in use!
Using our atomic sanitizers guarantees that the business you own is actually sanitized and continues working in-between cleanings. This is the most important thing, for any sanitizer in this post Covid-19 brave new world that we live in and that we require to operate with consumer confidence in this new world era.
Add our products to your sanitizing needs, our formula is EPA registered and approved and can be used in wipes, gels, deodorant, countertop sprays, mopping formulas, toothpaste, mouthwash, fogging solutions and more. Call to discuss your specific product formulation needs and we will be thrilled to show you how we can address your product needs.
