ÖNORM EN 14562

This European Standard specifies a carrier test for establishing whether a chemical disinfectant for use on instruments (surgical instruments, anaesthesia material, endoscopes etc.) has a fungicidal or yeasticidal activity in the fields described in the scope. The laboratory test closely simulates practical conditions of application including pre-drying fungi on a carrier, contact time, temperature, test organisms and interfering substances i.e. conditions which may influence the action of chemical disinfectants in practical situations. The obligatory conditions are intended to cover general purposes and to allow reference between laboratories and product types. Each utilization concentration of the chemical disinfectant found by this test corresponds to defined experimental conditions. However, for some applications the recommendations and/or instructions of use of a product may differ and therefore additional test conditions need to be used.