CINCINNATI – First Student, in Cincinnati, the nation’s largest school bus services company, has claimed to use a disinfectant on school buses that can kill the coronavirus for 30 days.
“Zoono Z71 will provide long-lasting coverage against the Covid virus for up to 30 days,” said Kenn Jones, senior manager of First Student, last week in an interview with WCPO nine News.
But an investigation by WCPO nine I-Team showed that the EPA did not approve Zoono Z71 disinfectant as a product that kills the virus, leave it for 30 days.
The product is registered with the EPA as a disinfectant, but I-Team learned that Zoono Z71 is not one of 475 EPA-approved products to kill coronavirus on surfaces.
“We can’t do this in the United States,” Zoono CEO Paul Hyslop told I-Team on Tuesday in an interview with Zoom from his New Zealand headquarters. “Everyone is looking for a miracle product. Our product is a smart product. I don’t think it’s a miracle product.
Hyslop told the I-Team that a national laboratory in a country he refused to name demonstrated that Zoono Z71 can kill a replacement coronavirus created in the lab up to 30 days after the disinfectant is applied to a surface.
He said China and South Korea had accepted the effects of control and had allowed Zoono to claim that the disinfectant could kill the virus for 30 days.
Hyslop stated that in Australia and the United Kingdom, Zoono can claim that its product kills the virus, but Hyslop said those countries did not settle for the verification effects on 30-day claims due to the method used in the verifications.
“It would be much less difficult if there was a global standard,” Hyslop told I-Team.
However, Hyslop said, Zoono got more than a million litres of Zoono Z71 in April alone.
Hyslop said he was sure Zoono will soon be added to the epa-approved disinfectant list that kills COVID-19’s culprit virus.
“We have asked the EPA for emergency approval directly. Lately we have 30-day claims ongoing in the U.S., Hyslop said.
In a brief provided to I-Team, First Student said: “At First Student, there is nothing more vital than the safety, fitness and well-being of our passengers and employees. Since last week’s interview, we’ve contacted Mr. . Hyslop in connection with any claims that would possibly be made to its product in the United States.”
I-Team asked First Student spokesman Chris Kemper if this meant That First Student would retire or explain his claims regarding disinfectant, and Kemper said First Student converted his claims to reflect what Zoo is not allowed to say about its product.
On Thursday, First Student got rid of all the disinfectant curtains of the past and First Student’s claims on the subject.
“I knew there was no legal product through the EPA to do this (kill COVID for 30 days),” said Spencer Bouldin, the counter of WCPO nine who encouraged the I-Team to investigate First Student’s allegations of disinfectant.
Bouldin, owner and chief executive officer of Spencer Environmental Services, said his company distributes disinfectants in the Cincinnati area.
He expressed fears of the dangers of fitness faced by academics, African-American academics, and workers who tested positive at higher rates than whites.
Bouldin surprised and inspired the fact that First Student temporarily eliminated claims of disinfectants.
“It’s the right thing to do. There’s no doubt about it,” Bouldin said.
Let the I-Team investigate