About us

Our vision

Our vision for the future is very concrete: To become an international company dedicated to prevention, having the use of the necessary expertise and infrastructure needed for the development and the marketing of its licensed or exclusive products. In a nutshell, it is to be a leader in this field that is prevention and control of the dissemination of bacteria.

Our mission

Our mission is first and foremost to develop and market a full range of products intended to limit the spread of bacteria. It is also to provide an answer to acute needs which are currently unmet, in an effective manner which meets the interest of health systems and ultimately contribute to the well-being of millions of people. Finally, it is to maximise the commercial success of our products thanks to partnerships which ensure the sustained growth of the company.

Brief History

The word «hygiene» comes from the Greek word hugienion, derived from hugieia «health». Hygiene is defined as the principles and practices which aim to preserve health and ensure the integrity of the functions of the organism. Throughout the centuries, cleanliness has in turn been considered as a virtue or, on the contrary, as a vice when its practice became excessive. The care of the body, from what clothes it, to what showcases it, has always been an object of attention, shifting according to the times and civilizations. At the cross of private need and public policy, the history of hygiene is closely tied to the history of water control, central element for body cleansing and object cleaning. The onset of the biological revolution which has been the discovery of micro-organisms and the role they play in diseases, propels hygiene to the rank of a scientific discipline and allows the establishment of practices which have played an important role in extending our life expectancy. The long and progressive creation of principles of hygiene (health, from salubrity to safety) has sometimes been established without doctors, when it wasn’t done against them.

Hygieia was the Greek goddess of health. At the beginning, it was only a personified abstraction. For a long time, her name was only an epithet applied to other divinities such as Athena. Around 500 B.C., she was recognised as a distinct goddess, but was always associated to other healing gods, particularly to Asclepius (Aesculapius), her father. In Attica, Hygieia’s and Asclepius’s religion (and cult following) was at the center of Asklepieion, on the southern slopes of the Acropolis. Later, this local cult spread to many Greek cities. Panacea, another daughter of Asclepius, symbolises curative medicine. Asclepius and his daughters belong to the lineage of Apollo, god of rational intelligence, who already prefigured science as it would be conceived later in the Occident. The Greeks honoured her as a goddess who had the responsibility to watch over the health of living creatures. Man and all living creatures were the focus of her caregiving. She is the one who covertly suggested to one and to others the right choices of foods necessary for their existence, as well as the appropriate remedies to cure their ailments. She somewhat personified life instinct and, by sustaining mortal forces, and even by preventing sickness, she saved her father from the need to continually intervene in order to alleviate or heal pain. In the French Encyclopaedia of the 19th century, she is described as a young nymph, with a vivid eye and smiling expression, a fresh and rosy complexion, of light stature, a little stout but not burdened with obesity, carrying on her right arm a rooster, and in the other, a large snake wrapped around a stick, representing vigilance and prudence.