Chlorine Dioxide and Wound Care: What the Global Patent Trail Reveals

From moisture-activated dressings in the 1980s to controlled-release formulations in China in 2026, a look inside the inventions that sought to bring chlorine dioxide into wound-care technology. What happens when inventors begin looking at a familiar chemical through an entirely different lens? Chlorine dioxide is widely recognized for its antimicrobial properties and its established role …

Chlorine Dioxide Selectivity: Good Bacteria vs. Bad Bacteria

One of the most persistent claims surrounding chlorine dioxide is also one of the most controversial: Chlorine dioxide is selective. People who have worked with chlorine dioxide for years, including Herb Roi Richards, often describe it as behaving differently from substances that simply destroy everything biological in their path. Critics respond with an apparently reasonable …