Volunteer Registration
Make quick cash by volunteering in simple and fun hand hygiene product testing sessions.
We are constantly conducting tests at Viroxy to determine the effectiveness of hand wash, handrub and surgical hand disinfectants. These products are required to be tested on real people to determine the efficacy, quality and effects of using the product. Each volunteer who participates in and completes assigned tests can earn up to RM100.
EN 1499:2013 – Hygienic handwash
Volunteers are required to wash artificially contaminated hands with test product using standard handwash procedure to establish if the test product is effective in reducing transient microbial flora on hands.
Test duration: 4 hours
Requirements: Above 18 years of age, healthy skin without cuts or abrasions and short and clean fingernails. Volunteers are not allowed to wear jewelries and other decorative trinkets on the hands and wrists during test. Volunteers' hands and wrists should also be free of tattoos.
Test microorganisms: Escherichia coli K12 NCTC 10538
This test microorganism has been specifically chosen to meet health and safety guidance and ethical committee considerations. It is a strain of E. coli internationally recognised as being non-pathogenic or 'non-disease-causing'.
EN 1500:2013 – Hygienic handrub
Volunteers are required to rub test product into artificially contaminated hands using standard handrub procedure to establish if the test product is effective in reducing transient microbial flora on hands.
Test duration: 4 hours
Requirements: Above 18 years of age, healthy skin without cuts or abrasions and short and clean fingernails. Volunteers are not allowed to wear jewelries and other decorative trinkets on the hands and wrists during test. Volunteers' hands and wrists should also be free of tattoos.
Test microorganisms: Escherichia coli K12 NCTC 10538
This test microorganism has been specifically chosen to meet health and safety guidance and ethical committee considerations. It is a strain of E. coli internationally recognised as being non-pathogenic or 'non-disease-causing'.
EN 12791:2016+A1:2017 – Surgical hand disinfection
Volunteers are required to wash and rub test product into clean hands using standard surgical handrub/-wash procedure to establish if the test product is effective in reducing resident and transient microbial flora on hands.
Test duration: 8 hours
Requirements: Above 18 years of age, healthy skin without cuts or abrasions and short and clean fingernails. Volunteers are not allowed to wear jewelries and other decorative trinkets on the hands and wrists during test. Volunteers' hands and wrists should also be free of tattoos. Beginning 3 days prior to test, volunteers should not take antibiotics and other supplements with similar capacity.
Test microorganisms: Test utilises resident microbial flora on volunteers’ hands, not specified test microorganisms.