No, we soak dishes in the basin and the zep-i-dine is one of four different disinfectants we use (we rotate weekly). It stains the crap out of everything plastic, including the basin.
Is it like betadine? It looks like it...After reading up on it, I think maybe it's more like iodine. Do you use it on animals as a disinfectant? Or just surfaces & tools?
Unfortunately, that site doesn't allow a search unless I know what type of usage I want the product for. I'm guessing it's some kind of iodine, which is allowed in food equipment sanitizing, although I've never come across it.
Zep does have very nice detergents and sanitizers that I see in some of the supermarkets. Most of the bodegas just use liquid dish soaps and, if they do what they're supposed to, a ~100ppm mixture of Clorox and water.
Yeah, I wasn't sure if that link would work; it took me an embarrassingly long time to track down an online presence for zep-i-dine, just 'cause I didn't want to engage in the kind of discussions about disinfectants that we have inevitably developed on this post.
But, hey, your job requires knowledge of this stuff. Zep-i-dine is as you suspect, an iodine solution. I think we use it, just to have a fourth disinfectant, with a different mode of germ-killing than Roccal, Bleach, and Ammonia (Micronex). The idea is to avoid inadvertently breeding Ammonia(and other disinfectant)-resistant bacteria and roundworm eggs and such. Most food places use bleach, most veterinary places use roccal, hospitals use iodine for scrubbing, we use everything. Take that, microbes!
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Date: 2008-04-05 01:24 am (UTC)Zep does have very nice detergents and sanitizers that I see in some of the supermarkets. Most of the bodegas just use liquid dish soaps and, if they do what they're supposed to, a ~100ppm mixture of Clorox and water.
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Date: 2008-04-05 01:34 pm (UTC)But, hey, your job requires knowledge of this stuff. Zep-i-dine is as you suspect, an iodine solution. I think we use it, just to have a fourth disinfectant, with a different mode of germ-killing than Roccal, Bleach, and Ammonia (Micronex). The idea is to avoid inadvertently breeding Ammonia(and other disinfectant)-resistant bacteria and roundworm eggs and such. Most food places use bleach, most veterinary places use roccal, hospitals use iodine for scrubbing, we use everything. Take that, microbes!