The history of Japanese antibacterial products and the future development direction
The history of Japanese antibacterial products and the future development direction
I. Introduction
The year is a commemorative year for this association (hereinafter referred to as SIAA). In this year, SIAA has been officially dedicated to the international standard ISO22196 for the detection of antibacterial properties of plastic products. This antibacterial test method proposed by Japan can become an international standard, and it can be seen that the value of antibacterial products has been recognized internationally, and the leading position of antibacterial agent detection technology in Japan has also been internationally recognized.
By the 10th anniversary of this year's creation, the SIAA itself has also made considerable progress through the work related to the ISO22196 international standardization proposal. Here, while reviewing the history of the development of antibacterial products, I will also describe the work of SIAA in ensuring the quality and safety of antibacterial products and the promotion and popularization of antibacterial products, as well as the future development direction of antibacterial products.
Second, the history of antibacterial products and the development of SIAA
Japan has been producing antibacterial fiber products for the purpose of deodorization since the 1950s and 1960s. However, due to technical problems such as antibacterial agents, it has not been able to form a scale in the market at the beginning. After the 1970s, some highly safe and durable antibacterial agents were developed and applied to antibacterial fiber products, which led to the expansion of the antibacterial market. It is generally believed that antibacterial products have been widely recognized and accepted by the society since the antibacterial and anti-odor socks [commuting fast legs] were launched on the market and widely welcomed by consumers.
The antibacterial products during this period are mainly fiber products processed by organic antibacterial agents.
Since 1992, various inorganic antibacterial agents have been developed which are excellent in heat resistance and can be used for injection and extrusion molding. They can be applied to products other than fibers, and the range of use of antibacterial agents is rapidly expanding.
Since 1995, many products including clothing and other products have been marked with antibacterial or antibacterial processing, and there has been an antibacterial climax. However, because a considerable number of products have no antibacterial effect, and some are harmful to human safety, consumers and publicity media have strongly criticized this.
Concerned about the situation, people in the industry are focusing on the research of inorganic antibacterial agents such as silver, which was established by the group of inorganic antibacterial agents, and joint organic antibacterial agent manufacturers, antibacterial product manufacturers and antibacterial testing institutions. The SIAA was established in the year.
In order to achieve the purpose of protecting consumers' rights and interests by administrative means, it is necessary to formulate new standards for antibacterial products. In December 1998, a seminar on new functional products related to life was organized by the then Ministry of Industry, Trade and Industry, and the administrative agencies and experts. Consumer groups, industry groups, and SIAA representatives participated in the development of the "Antibacterial Products Processing Guidelines."
In order to ensure the sound development of the antibacterial products market, this policy officially defines the concept of [antibacterial] on the one hand, and stipulates the basic rules that related companies must abide by, that is, enterprises must provide consumers with antibacterial products. The following information: 1 antibacterial agent processing site; 2 antibacterial effect; 3 antibacterial agent type; 4 antibacterial product safety; 5 antibacterial products use method, and other precautions.
This policy sets out the relevant regulations to be followed by industrial groups affiliated with antibacterial products manufacturing and sales companies. However, for all manufacturing companies that are not industrial groups, all antibacterial products are allowed to be sold in the market if they all comply with the provisions of this policy.
The standards that have been in use since December 2000 are the independent standards of the group to which antibacterial products companies are established in accordance with this policy.
In December of this year, in accordance with this policy, combined with the detection method of antibacterial products, the JIS Z 2801 standard for the detection of antibacterial effects of antibacterial products was established.
This standard adopts the film method that SIAA has already used. It is easy to operate and has good repeatability. At present, this is also an internationally accepted method. It successfully applied through the international standardization process mentioned above, with almost no change in the main structure. It is the ISO 22196 standard.
In order to ensure the implementation of the antibacterial test standard JIS, SIAA has developed the Japan National Laboratory Accreditation System (JNLA), the antibacterial property of antibacterial products registered in SIAA, and its test report must pass the JNLA system. According to JIS Z 2801, the antibacterial activity value of the registered product is 2 or more, and the SIAA mark (Fig. 1) marked with [JIS Z 2801 antibacterial suitable] can be used.
図1JIS antibacterial suitable for SIAAマーク
The history of the above antibacterial products and the development history of SIAA are shown in Table 1:
Table 1 History of Antibacterial Products and Development of Antimicrobial Products Technology Association (SIAA)
time
History of antibacterial products
Development history
year
Started manufacturing antibacterial fiber products and stopped due to problems such as durability of antibacterial agents
year
Antibacterial and deodorant fiber products appear. Due to the stability of the antibacterial agent and the durability of the antibacterial and deodorizing effect, it is not popular.
year
The antibacterial fiber processed by the highly safe antibacterial agent is on the market and the market scale is expanded.
year
Antibacterial and deodorant socks [commuting fast legs] are popular with the public
November
Formulated JIS L 1902 (Antibacterial Test Standard for Fiber Products)
year-
Developed various inorganic antibacterial agents and formed antibacterial products market other than fibers
June
In the early days, the "Inorganic Antibacterial Agent Research Society of Silver (Silver Anti-Research)" was established, and its main members are mainly manufacturers of inorganic antibacterial agents.
Year - 1996
Antibacterial products have increased dramatically, and antibacterial orgasms have exploded.
June
The results of the investigation of antibacterial products were published in the magazine [ãŸã—ã‹ãªç›®] issued by the National Life Center.
June
Antimicrobial Products Technology Association (SIAA) was established
December
At that time, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry formulated guidelines for the processing of antibacterial products.
As a member, actively participate in the development of guidelines for the processing of antibacterial products
December
Develop SIAA antimicrobial standards. The SIAA logo is used
December
JIS Z 2801 (Antibacterial Performance Test Standard) was established.
August
"JIS Z2801 Antibacterial Suitable" SIAA logo begins to be used
March
Modification of JIS L 1902 (Antibacterial Testing Standard for Fiber Products)
April
OECD Antimicrobial Performance Research Conference was held in Washington, USA
May to February 2003
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry conducts follow-up investigation on guidelines for processing antimicrobial products
Cooperate with follow-up investigation
October
The China International Antibacterial Materials Development Conference was held in Beijing, and the SIAA President was invited to participate in the lecture. SIAA began to communicate with China Association of Antibacterial Materials and Products Industry (CIAA)
June
Set up under the Chemical Federation
May
Set up an ISO Promotion Committee that promotes the conversion of JIS Z 2801 to international standards
October
Agreement with the China Association of Antibacterial Materials and Products Industry (CIAA) to harmonize antibacterial testing standards.
October
The ISO/TC61 Annual Conference was held in Chengdu, China, and a new business project (NWIP) proposal for the development of international standards for antimicrobial testing was adopted.
November
The 1st meeting of the TFB Antimicrobial Association Working Group under the Chemical Confederation was held
Sending representatives to attend
November
Regular meetings of the International Microbial Degradation Research Group (IBRG) were held in Nara.
Co-hosting the International Antimicrobial Symposium
March
Completed a two-year certification related to testing agency certification (developed by antibacterial testing standard test strips)
June
JIS R 1702 (Determination of Antibacterial Performance of Photocatalyst Antibacterial Products under Light Irradiation) was established.
July
Released the international standard for antibacterial testing of fiber products
October
Released the international standard for antibacterial testing of plastic products
October
Convene a meeting of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry / SIAA President
November
New SIAA logo starts to use
At present, the scale of antibacterial products in Japan is about 900 million yen. In recent years, the development of the antibacterial market in Asia and Europe and the United States has also been very rapid. Many Japanese antibacterial and antibacterial products are exported to overseas markets, and overseas antibacterial products have also entered the Japanese market.
The work has also received extensive international attention. The work related to SIAA and internationalization will be described in the next chapter.
International promotion of antibacterial standards
While the antibacterial market in Japan is stabilizing, it is decided to promote it internationally. Considering the sales situation of antibacterial products in the international market in recent years, it is necessary to establish an international standard for antibacterial testing methods. The SIAA began to focus on establishing ISO antimicrobial standards. At the ISO/TC61 meeting held in Maastricht, the Netherlands in 2003, SIAA submitted a proposal for a new business project (New Work Item Proposal: NP), which was held at the 2004 conference in Chengdu, China, NP and proposal. (Working Draft) was adopted and passed the deliberation of representatives of various countries and was officially released in October 2007.
The release of the international standard ISO 22196 for antibacterial performance testing standards is of great significance to antibacterial related people around the world.
In order to apply for the ISO antibacterial standard, the Society participated in the International Microbial Degradation Research Group in 2002 and introduced the JIS standard to its members, and learned the advantages of this method through the Round Robin Test. SIAA organized IBRG meetings in Kyoto and Nara in March 2004 and November 2005 respectively. In particular, at the Nara meeting, a panel discussion on antibacterial participation was held by international researchers, Japanese executives, experts, consumer groups, and people involved in the antibacterial community. The significance of antibacterial was agreed, and the antibacterial concept was first proposed. Japan's antibacterial history, traditional culture, buildings, etc. have deepened understanding.
In addition, the China Antibacterial Materials and Products Industry Association (now the National Health Industry Management Association Antimicrobial Industry Branch CIAA) is the same organization as the SIAA dedicated to the antibacterial industry. Since 2002, this association has been strengthening exchanges with CIAA. The two associations work closely together to establish a unified antibacterial testing standard.
Future development direction
In recent years, Japan's antibacterial products market has stabilized, and consumers have fully accepted the antibacterial concept, but the antibacterial market is currently saturated, and it is difficult to grow much in the future. In order to make the antibacterial products market grow and internationalize, SIAA describes the future direction of development, and has developed a work plan to achieve its goals. The plan has been implemented since 2006. The following are some of the work that this Council started to achieve.
(1) Establishment of antibacterial effect detection technology
In order to make domestic and foreign consumers more aware of the value of antibacterial products, from now on, we must first consider the establishment of antibacterial effect detection technology, according to the collected antibacterial properties and bacterial reproduction under various environments and conditions. A number of tests were performed on the data such as the impact.
(2) International promotion of antibacterial product certification system
At present, except for Japan and China, there are no standards for antibacterial properties and safety testing of antibacterial products. With the growth of antibacterial markets in various countries around the world, there may be some counterfeit and unsafe like the early Japanese market. product. In order to prevent this from happening and to promote the promotion of antibacterial testing standards, SIAA allows foreign companies to join and promote the SIAA logo internationally.
In order to enable the countries all over the world to accept the SIAA logo, the Association also promotes the correct meaning and purpose of antibacterial while implementing the ISO 22196 standard. Based on the original SIAA logo, SIAA removes Chinese characters and uses ISO standard number and [KOHKIN] text (Figure 2). This logo has been officially used since November 2007.
図2 Antibacterial ISO SIAAマーク
(3) Transition to the new certification system
In order to promote the antibacterial certification system such as SIAA on a global scale, the SIAA certification system needs to be converted into an internationally accepted certification system according to ISO/IECguide 67. The new international certification system must not only include the determination of the antibacterial properties of the products, but also discuss the establishment. Or introduce the producer quality management system, the third party judgment committee and the monitoring system.
Develop antibacterial performance test guidelines at the OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held a seminar on antimicrobial performance in 2002. Since then, Task Forth on Biocide (TFB) has been established under the Chemicals Federation in June 2003, and in December 2004, it has been held on Torated Articles. The first meeting of the International Unification Working Group on Testing Methods, SIAA sent representatives to participate.
Actively participated in this program, committed to the detection method, and more importantly, to add the antibacterial performance judgment standard to the above unified standards for antibacterial product testing methods, which makes the OECD standard more comprehensive and has a stronger impact than the ISO standard. Force to achieve the goal of internationalization of antimicrobial standards.
,to sum up
Just now we reviewed the history of antibacterial products and the development of SIAA, and also discussed the future development direction. At present, for the future development of antibacterial products and SIAA, we still have very complicated and complicated work to be completed, and there are certainly many difficulties in these tasks. However, we must have the courage to be afraid of failure to overcome difficulties and usher in the difficulties. Antibacterial beautiful tomorrow.
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