{"id":112596,"date":"2020-09-06T07:23:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/epa-approves-two-lysol-products-as-the-first-to-effectively-kill-novel-coronavirus-on-surfaces"},"modified":"2020-09-06T07:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T14:23:22","slug":"epa-approves-two-lysol-products-as-the-first-to-effectively-kill-novel-coronavirus-on-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/epa-approves-two-lysol-products-as-the-first-to-effectively-kill-novel-coronavirus-on-surfaces","title":{"rendered":"EPA approves two Lysol products as the first to effectively kill novel coronavirus on surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/epa-approves-two-lysol-products-as-the-first-to-effectively-kill-novel-coronavirus-on-surfaces2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lysol Disinfectant Spray and Lysol Disinfectant Max Cover Mist meet the EPA\u2019s criteria for use against the SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the ongoing pandemic, based on laboratory testing that found both products kill the virus two minutes after contact, the agency announced in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n<p>While there are more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/pesticide-registration\/list-n-disinfectants-use-against-sars-cov-2-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\">420 products on the list of disinfectants<\/a> that the EPA says are strong enough to ward off \u201charder-to-kill\u201d viruses than the novel coronavirus, the two Lysol products are the first to have been tested directly against the virus and proved effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lysol Disinfectant Spray and Lysol Disinfectant Max Cover Mist meet the EPA\u2019s criteria for use against the SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the ongoing pandemic, based on laboratory testing that found both products kill the virus two minutes after contact, the agency announced in a statement Monday. While there are more than 420 products on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}