This means doubling the time that it takes to clean and disinfect a soiled surface. Lack detergency 2. react with other chemicals to create toxic gases 3. But they aggressive enough to attack and damage floor finishes and sensitive flooring. Phenolic disinfectants are still the preferred product in a few health care facilities. It is used in areas where gross contamination of blood and body fluids exist.
Phenolics are effective against pathogenic bacteria like tubercle bacillus that cause tuberculosis.
Sporeforming bacteria like tubercle bacillus are extremely difficult to disrupt because to the protective shell which forms around the bacteria. Phenolic disinfectants are able to penetrate this shell and kill the TB organism inside. Iodines and iodophor compounds can be very effective disinfectants with a broad range of killing power. But iodophors and iodines can stain surfaces and corrode metals. Distilled pine oil can be formulated as a disinfectant.