How can a company claim that a specific product should be used effectively during the COVID-19 outbreak?
COVID-19 疫情爆发期间，一家公司如何声明某一特定产品应该得到有效的使用？
During an outbreak of a new virus like COVID-19, there are no existing products on the market that can claim to kill it. This is because the virus was not available to test, and it can take more than one year to get a viral claim approved by a regulatory agency. For this reason, EPA has enacted a “hierarchy-based” policy, meaning that if a company’s product has been found to be effective against harder-to-kill viruses, it is likely to kill a virus like COVID-19. The American Chemistry Council’s Center for Biocide Chemistries has developed a list of EPA-approved products that have been proven effective against viruses that are harder to kill and which may be effective at killing the Novel Coronavirus.
在像 COVID-19 这样的新病毒爆发期间，市场上没有任何已有的产品可以声称能够杀死该病毒。这是因为无法对该病毒进行检测，而且病毒声明可能需要一年以上的时间才能获得监管机构的批准。出于这个原因，EPA 制定了一项“基于层级的”政策，这就意味着，如果一家公司的产品被发现能够有效对抗更难杀死的病毒，那么它很可能会杀死像 COVID-19 这样的病毒。美国化学理事会生物杀灭化学中心已制定了一份经 EPA 批准的产品清单，这些产品已经被证明对那些更难杀死的病毒有效，可能对杀死新型冠状病毒也会有效。