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A method of deodorizing articles, devices, and solutions involved in or used in medical and biological procedures including endoscopic procedures and associated solutions and materials. The method is to treat the materials and solutions to be deodorized with 2,5-hexanedione or with 2,3-pentanedione

A method of deodorizing articles, devices, and solutions involved in or used in medical and biological procedures including endoscopic procedures and associated solutions and materials. The method is to treat the materials and solutions to be deodorized with 2,5-hexanedione or with 2,3-pentanedione as a chemical deodorant. In a preferred treating composition the chemical deodorant is used as an aqueous solution containing a small amount of an essential oil-type masking agent and an oil solubilizing surfactant.

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The method of deodorizing fluid and solid media and devices, instruments, appliances, articles and solutions used in connection with analytical, investigative, diagnostic and therapeutic, biological and medical procedures, said method being operative to eliminate odors derived from urine and from fe

The method of deodorizing fluid and solid media and devices, instruments, appliances, articles and solutions used in connection with analytical, investigative, diagnostic and therapeutic, biological and medical procedures, said method being operative to eliminate odors derived from urine and from fecal matter and residues discharged during the carrying out of medical procedures including procedures using endoscopes and other exploratory and surgical apparatus, and urological, proctoscopic and colonoscopic procedures, said method eliminating the odors through reaction of a chemical deodorant with odor-producing groups and moieties of metabolically-produced odoriferous chemicals present in urine and fecal matter discharged during spills and “accidents”in sick rooms and during the conducting of medical procedures, said method comprising the steps of preparing an aqueous composition containing a chemical agent as a chemical deodorant selected from the group consisting of 2,5-hexanedione, 2,3-pentanedione and mixtures thereof, and applying said composition to a substance to be deodorized.