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DISINFACTS

Our periodical DISINFACTS offers you well-founded and practical information on special topics relating to hygiene and infection protection. The focus: new recommendations and regulations, studies and products, events and background knowledge on individual diseases and active ingredients. Some of these topics relevant to hygiene are explored in depth.

These are the topics of the latest DISINFACTS.

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Issue 1-2026

Cover of the DISINFACTS magazine with an illustration showing the celebration of 15 years of HARTMANN SCIENCE CENTER

Regulatory changes, new scientific insights, and increasing decision pressure are shaping everyday work in healthcare. For 15 years, the HARTMANN SCIENCE CENTER has provided reliable guidance in disinfection and infection prevention. In this issue of DESINFACTS, discover how our competence center works, how the HARTMANN SCIENCE CENTER website is evolving, and which topics are currently driving infection control professionals – from the 2026 Symposium to regulatory developments surrounding ethanol and Sterillium® pure.

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Issue 2-2025

An elderly woman in a wheelchair and a younger woman who bends down attentively

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the importance of consistent hygiene and infection control – even outside of hospitals. With the growing trend towards outpatient care, new challenges are emerging for dental practices, dialysis facilities and pharmacies. In this issue, we present practical solutions for greater patient safety and introduce our new pathogen poster: a comprehensive overview of the most important pathogens in healthcare.

Issue 1-2025

Cover mit einer alten Sterillium-Werbung, die eine Krankenschwester und ein krankes Kind im Krankenhausbett zeigt.

We are once again celebrating a special occasion, which we honour in this issue of DISINFACTS Sterillium® turns 60! Since its launch in 1965, our ’classic blue‘ has become one of the world‘s most successful hand disinfectants. This issue also features an interview with Prof Dr Swen Malte John on occupational safety and hand hygiene. Other topics include surface disinfection and sustainable fibres, new pathogens and much more.

Issue 2-2024

Cover of a magazin showing a father and son hugging from the back

In this issue, we look to the future in the face of undeniable global environmental changes: at HARTMANN, we see environmental protection as health protection. In this issue, you can read how we plan to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. In addition, the product family for more sustainable surface disinfection is growing. Exemplary results are also provided by the tests of an independent testing laboratory on two hand disinfectants, which we present in this issue.

Issue 1-2024

Magazine cover with the title DESINFACTS and a blue drawing of a company celebration

BODE Chemie is one hundred years old this year! Our anniversary will therefore take up a large part of this issue of DISINFACTS. But we don‘t just want to look back with you. Our successful past is also an obligation and an incentive for us at BODE to master the current and future challenges in all areas of infection prevention.

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