I think ideally, HOCl would have been reached for as the safest environmental sanitizer and disinfectant at the time of the pandemic. And we would have avoided a lot of the bad things that came about from the use of environmental disinfectants that turned out to be actually quite toxic. And people were using them at toxic levels. That had permanent effects on quite a lot of people.

 

So my ideal environmental sanitizing intervention would be HOCl, both as a surface, hard surface disinfectant. And I think aerosolizing it into the air is very likely to have a beneficial effect on airborne transmission of pathogens. That's controversial and actually a rather difficult thing to prove, but it's highly likely given the safety of it and the potency of it.

 

We very early on were able to show that coronavirus was very susceptible to HOCl. I think it's lamentable that it wasn't more widely recognized and people reverted to cheap toxic disinfectants and left a residual effect on the health of a lot of people as a result.

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-- Jeffrey F. Williams, PhD, BVSc, MRCVS, microbiologist and infectious disease expert, has devoted his career to researching, inventing and bringing to market solutions that have improved the lives and health of people all over the world. 

 

-- Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University (Emeritus)

 

-- Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

 

-- Holder of 30+ patents covering water treatment, disease control, odor control

 

-- Author of 200+ scientific papers and textbook chapters

 

-- Member of the Board of Counselors, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health (1984-88)

 

-- ​Chairman of a World Health Organization research committee on tropical diseases (based in Geneva) (1985-1989)

 

-- Chief Science Officer, HOCL producer that is world leader in hypochlorous acid technology and manufacturing (2014-2024)