What is ISO 18184 – Antiviral activity of textile product about?
ISO 18184 discusses textiles. Antiviral textile products are textiles capable of reducing the number of infective virus particles that contact the surface of the textile. The textile products include woven and knitted fabrics, fibres, yarns, braids, etc.
ISO 18184 specifies testing methods for the determination of the antiviral activity of the textile products against specified viruses. Due to the individual sensitivities, the results of one test virus cannot be transposed to other viruses.
Who is ISO 18184 – Antiviral activity of textile product for?
ISO 18184 on the antiviral activity of the textile product is useful for:
- Textile industries
- Quality control personnel
- Textile testing laboratories
- Textile retailers
Why should you use ISO 18184 – Antiviral activity of textile products?
Recently, along with the global improvement in the level of living, consumers are showing the trend to seek healthcare or health-protective products. Also, an increase in the people’s interest for protection against epidemic diseases has been noted, as the overcrowded commuting train car where the commuters experience every day, the hospitals, nursing homes, etc.
Being supported by the processing technology of textile products to provide a high performance which has been highly developed recently, the health-protective and hygiene relating products have been advancing into the market.
The demand to establish an international standard has been growing in the consumers, retailers, producers, etc. as the stakeholders in the market. ISO 18184 provides a quantitative test method to assess the antiviral performance of such products.
ISO 18184 provides you with two methods to quantify the number of infective viruses, as infective virus titre and that is the plaque method and the TCID50 method. The method used can be selected by the experience and the convenience of each testing house. ISO 18184 helps you to assess the antiviral performance of such products.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS ISO 18184:2019 supersedes BS ISO 18184:2014. BS ISO 18184:2019 includes some technical and editorial changes with respect to BS ISO 18184:2014. These include:
- Viruses and host cells used has been changed to examples of species
- Verification of cytotoxic effect has been removed
- Preparation of specimen has been updated
- Calculation of antiviral activity value has been updated
