Euro bottle
Euro bottle is the name of a container in which preparations for hand hygiene are filled. As a rule, the filling goods are hand disinfectants, hand washing preparations or lotions. The containers are usually used in suitable dispenser systems that are compatible with this bottle shape and are referred to as euro dispensers. The euro bottle has certain dimensional limits so that the euro dispenser can accept different filling goods that follow this format.
history
The idea of establishing a bottle format that was as uniform as possible arose in Germany at the beginning of the 1970s when more and more providers of alcohol-based hand disinfectants came onto the market and it became difficult for users to find a dispenser system that was compatible with products from different manufacturers. The primary user group consists of hospitals, clinics and other health care facilities, in which hand hygiene plays an important role in avoiding nosocomial infections .
Dimensions
Containers with a volume of 500 ml and 1,000 ml form the usual format. The euro bottle in 500 ml format measures 150 mm - 160 mm in height, 65 mm in depth and 75 mm in width. A maximum of 70 mm in depth and 88 mm in width applies to the 1,000 bottle. The height of the euro bottle is between 170 mm - 200 mm. Regardless of the bottle size, the inside diameter of the bottle neck is between 18 and 35 mm. The bottle neck should be placed as centrally as possible to ensure that the bottle is correctly seated in the euro dispenser.
recommendations
The use of euro donors gives users the opportunity to use products from different manufacturers. The Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention at the Robert Koch Institute (KRINKO) describes in its current recommendation on hand hygiene in health care facilities from 2016 the following with regard to the requirements for dispensers for hand disinfectants and hand washing preparations: "It should [...] the possibility the use of containers from different manufacturers [...] be possible. "
The Society for Hospital Hygiene eV (DGKH) also advocates the euro bottle format in its recommendation on the requirements for soap and hand disinfectant dispensers in health care facilities: "Soap and hand disinfectant dispensers should allow the use of various liquid soap and hand disinfectant containers from different manufacturers. "
literature
- Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention at the Robert Koch Institute “Hand Hygiene in Health Care Facilities.” Bundesgesundheitsblatt-Gesundheitsforschung-Gesundheitsschutz 9 (2016): 1189.
- Assadian, Ojan, et al. " Recommendation on requirements for soap and hand disinfectant dispensers in healthcare facilities." Hygiene and Medicine 36.10 (2011): 407.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Current recommendation on hand hygiene in health care facilities from 2016
- ↑ Recommendation on the requirements for soap and hand disinfectant dispensers in health care facilities