Byotrol - A New approach to Microbial control

Byotrol plc was established in 1999 to develop a unique range of sanitizing products for industry & the home.

Byotrol has a range of products that can be added into manufacturing processes or used directly to control micro organisms safely.

Micro organisms cause disease, danger,rot and despair, and individually are quite easy to kill. In fact we need them to make bread and beer and for many other uses.

Healthy people and a healthy environment contain a wide range of micro organisms that are practically impossible to eradicate, but in many cases need controlling.

We can't see them, they are microscopic and the main danger comes from unchecked growth. Some species replicate every twenty minutes and that means in perfect conditions 1 cell can become 16,777,216 in 8 hours. And we still cannot see them - A Big Problem

Microbes adapt very quickly

And Byotrol controls them safely and effectively - Byotrol Ingredients

Byotrol combines a physical effect with a chemical control provided by minute amounts of selected biocides.

Byotrol's physical properties interfere with the formation of a biofilm substantially reducing the micro organisms ability to reproduce.

Unable to reproduce, the 'age' of the colony increases as does its vulnerability to chemical controls magnifying the biocides efficacy.

Physically

Byotrol's physical properties create high & low surface tension areas on a microscopic scale. This effect cannot be felt by large scale organisms, but it pulls and pushes minute micro organisms about.

The micro organisms find it very difficult to settle or reproduce. Byotrol, with the addition of some very simple and safe chemicals, speeds up the eradication of the micro organisms. How can chemicals that are this effective be safe? Simple, lets look at what they are and also understand the scale of the operation. We are huge. and they are tiny.

Chemically

The molecular backbone of Byotrol has associated with it, by non chemical bonds, a selected group of well understood biocides.

The effects of the biocides is amplified because they are acting upon micro organisms whose ability to reproduce has been severely impaired and are therefore more susceptible due to their age.

Byotrol is so effective because

and they are safe.

Chemicals used are:

Byotrol does not contain

To reproduce by division the microbes need to affix to a surface forming a calyx. Once attached they can reproduce by budding/vegetative growth. The cell swells and a second identical clone is budded off. Once completed the process repeats.

If the attachment is prevented the microbes cannot exert a force that permits budding and so cannot reproduce. The microbe starts to age and become more susceptible to Byotrol's safe and effective biocides

Immobilized Biomass

Byotrol is a biodegradable biocide!

Byotrol is a highly stable product mixture in solution and application, however at very high dilution or when immersed in water for 24 hours the material begins to disassociate into it's component parts.

These provide a carbon source for microbes and are biodegraded into simple molecules.

Test Results 1996

Byotrol incorporated in surface coatings rapidly reduces the number of organism present. Compared with a coated panel without Byotrol (control) significant microbial reduction takes place. Aqua-Guard Challenged with B.subtilis. Test performed in 1996

No. of Viable Bacteria graph 1996

Test Results 1998

The result shows the same panel tested 24 months later. The Byotrol coated surface still shows excellent anti microbial performance.

No. of Viable Bacteria graph 1998

Repeat Test Results 1998

And the test results back it up