UPDATE 1-FOCUS-Cleaning product makers race to labs to bolster coronavirus claims [Reuters]
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Cleaning product makers race to labs to bolster coronavirus claims (Reuters) - As global makers of household cleaners race to pitch their products as coronavirus killers, one major company, Reckitt Benckiser ( RB.L ), may have a leg up on the competition. The maker of Lysol and Dettol disinfectants said it has already obtained a strain of the novel coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2, from an independent lab and plans to use the strain to test whether its products kill the virus. Watchdogs in the United States and Europe stipulate that a product must be tested in a regulator-approved lab to prove it can be effective against 99.9% of a virus before it can make a virus-killing claim on its label or in ads. In 2012, for instance, when MERS-coronavirus was a major public health concern, cleaning products had to prove they could kill 9,999 out of 10,000 MERS-Coronavirus cells, according to the agencies’ requirement. COVID-19, the disease caused by novel coronavirus, originated in Wuhan, Chi
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