FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
A simple explanation is that we put billions of good bacteria (probiotics) on the surfaces we clean, they eat all the available food and cause the germs (bad bacteria) to starve and die.
We also infuse prebiotics into most of our products. The prebiotics serve as food for the probiotics as well as ensuring an immediate activation for the probiotics, as soon as they touch the surfaces.
The probiotics also produce up to 26 different types of enzymes, which they use to break down any dirt they find on the surface and use it (and prebiotic sugars) as food, thus allowing them to continue to clean and protect for at least 5 days!
For more detailed information, please refer to our Science page.
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There is an important difference between cleaning and disinfection, both of surfaces and of our body.
Cleaning: Removing dirt from a surface (such as a material or our skin). This is done with soaps (or detergents), or by manually removing the dirt using cloths, etc.
Disinfection (or Sanitizing, Decontamination): Making a surface free of all microorganisms by killing them. This is done with biocides (or disinfectants).
Both soaps and biocides are completely chemical in composition, the biocides containing an active substance that is killing micro-organisms. Nowadays, soaps and biocides are sometimes combined, whereby one product should do both cleaning and killing (eg Anti-Bacterial soaps). The ultimate goal is therefore to ensure that microorganisms and their food source (= dirt) are no longer present in our environment through cleaning and disinfection.
Because probiotic and synbiotic cleaning is a new technology, HEIQ-Chrisal (which manufactures the Synbio Shield products) has devoted a great deal of attention from the start of the development to demonstrating the safety of the products and especially the probiotic strains used
- Synbio Shield probiotics and synbiotics meet the following criteria:
- All probiotics used belong to ATCC safety class 1 (= highest safety)
- The pro / prebiotics are 100% natural, not genetically modified (non-GMO)
- The pro / prebiotics are listed on the list of safe ingredients of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) for processing in food
- Passed the following official OECD safety tests:
- Food safe according to the American FDA (GRAS status)
- OECD 403 Inhalation toxicity
- OECD 404 Acute skin irritation / corrosion
- OECD 405 Acute eye irritation / corrosion
- OECD 406 Skin sensation
- The products meet the EU Ecolabel criteria
- The prebiotics and probiotics meet the criteria for use in cosmetics
- Over 10 years of safe use in hospitals and clinical studies
Product quality
To guarantee the proper functioning and safety of every product, a sound quality system is of great importance. HEIQ-Chrisal has the ISO9001 quality certificate since 1999. This guarantees the proper functioning of the entire company. In addition, HEIQ-Chrisal has 2 laboratories that are equipped with all the required modern technology to be able to carry out thorough quality control. Producing products with probiotics is not easy and guaranteeing purity requires modern equipment and specialized lab technicians.
Product Operation
The operation of all HEIQ-Chrisal products is always externally validated by specialized academic or private institutions. HEIQ-Chrisal’s regular research partners include UGent, Eurofins, SGS and BMA Labor.
Synbio Shield recognises that Probiotics and prebiotics must survive the entire life of the product.
While different products have different markings with regards to their shelf life - these are often dictated by industry standards rather than product limitations.
HeiQ-Chrisal is by far the market leader in terms of stability of probiotics-based products and guarantees all of its products a shelf life of at least 3 years!
No. There are many types of probiotics (good bacteria) and prebiotics (food). Our products contain a combination of multiple types of probiotics and prebiotics, which we've researched and have found to be the optimal combination to deliver the best possible products.
HeiQ-Chrisal has been doing research for many years to select the best performing probiotic bacteria and prebiotic sugars for the desired application. For example, a probiotic Lactobacillus, known from the probiotic nutritional supplements, will be practically worthless for environmental applications. The Bacillus species used in the Synbio Shield products, originating from soil and water, are ultra-efficient!
There is also a question of product stability; The number of pre- and probiotics in the product is also of great importance. Often the organic pollution on a surface is very strong.
A probiotic cleaning product with only a few probiotics will not work.
The Synbio Shield products contain an absolute minimum of 50 million probiotics per ml. Certain products go up to half a billion per ml!