—By Jaeah Lee | Thu Nov. 17, 2011 9:19 AM PST Next time you walk down the cleaning product aisle at your local grocery store, take a closer look at those pretty labels wrapped around your favorite surface disinfectant. A new study out today reveals that numerous popular cleaner brands, including Glade, Clorox, Pine Sol, and the ostensibly [...]
By Dr. Robert W. Powitz — posted 11/04/2008 For as long as I can remember, we in the cleaning industry have emphasized using the best performing products that can do the job in the most economical manner. Now we are being asked to become more environmentally conscious and consider changing some of the things we use [...]
As detailed in the article below, a microbiologist has created a microbial solution that can change the genetic make-up of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to make them sensitive (and more easily killable with regular antibiotics again. While this is great news for the healthcare industry, the environmental and infectious disease control aspect becomes more complicated. The formula [...]
The Chemical-Free Cleaning Expo is on the horizon DAVIE, FL — The six billion pounds of artificial cleaning chemicals dumped into our environment every year can be minimized or completely eliminated, according to a press release. Vince Elliott, a leading cleaning industry consultant, was so motivated by the innovative technologies, which allow thorough sanitation of commercial, [...]
By Alan Bigger Many years ago while serving in the military I was exposed to a foreign concept, the "White Glove" inspection. The purpose of the inspection by our military instructors was to determine if our rooms were clean. In 1982, while working in a hospital, I learned from infection control practitioners that even though [...]
When we came across this post from a friend on Facebook, we though it was too priceless not to share: As submitted to the annual Washington Post contest over the years, and accumulated by journalist Bethany Amanda. Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center. He was as tall as [...]
By Vince Elliott Sitting in class not too long ago, students sneezed, coughed, bled and touched their way through each day and didn't think twice about it. You know how it was: what you couldn't see wouldn't hurt you. How things have changed. Given today's health risks, 'out of sight, out of mind' just isn't [...]
Okay, so maybe you don’t care so much what happens across the pond, but since they share our suffering in a recession, we wanted to see what we could learn from their experience. These are a few of the take-aways we value in this article: General Trends increased emphasis on products/processes that value the environment [...]
Stephanie J Dancer1,2 , Liza F White2 , Jim Lamb2 , E Kirsty Girvan3 and Chris Robertson4 1 Department of Microbiology, Hairmyres Hospital, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, UK 2 Department of Microbiology, Southern General Hospital, Govan Road, Glasgow, UK 3 Scottish MRSA Reference Laboratory, Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, UK 4 Department of Statistics & Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK author email corresponding author email BMC Medicine 2009, 7:28doi:10.1186/1741-7015-7-28 The [...]
posted approx. October 19, 2011 Just in time for cold and flu season, new testing in six major U.S. cities reveals that gas pump and mailbox handles may be among the dirtiest surfaces Americans touch. The results, released today by Kimberly-Clark Professional, show that more than 60 percent of gas pump and mailbox handles and [...]