AHP® Featured in the Merck Manual
Accelerated Hyrdogen Peroxide® is featured in the Merck Manual, with an entry by Mark L. Wickstrom, DVM, MS, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary...
Publications
Industry Roundtable: Sporicides, Quaternary Ammonium Compounds and Advanced Hydrogen Peroxide.
AHP® helps hospitals reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), an expensive, dangerous problem that becomes more serious each year. Today’s disinfecting technologies actually contribute...
Disinfection begins with proper selection
It might not be too dramatic to state that bacteria, viruses, fungi, and specs represent a unique, insidious, and dangerous class of contaminants: unique in that under the right conditions...
How to Select an Ideal Disinfectant
With the emergence of antibiotic-resistant organisms such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE), etc. and more virulent strains of well-known pathogens such as Clostridium difficile, the utilization of...
A History Lesson In Green Disinfection
From Volume 99, Issue 4 - April 2009 Sustainability Author visits the past to lay the foundation for the future. By: Lee Nesbitt Although environmentalism and conservatism can be traced back over a century,...
Myths and Facts about Infection Prevention
An article published in 1998 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that in 1995, 88,000 deaths — one death every six minutes — could be attributed...
Surface Disinfectants and Label Claims: Realistically can Contact Times be met to Achieve Antimicrobial Efficacy?
CJIC Vol 23 No 1, pg 49. The objective of the study was the determine the efficacy of several different disinfectant chemistries against common pathogens using a realistic contact time for...
When it Comes to Infection Control, Knowledge Really IS Power
Controlling infectious diseases is everyone’s business. And in the health care sector, where it is not uncommon for housekeeping staff in a hospital to also work in a long term...
Biofilms: Friend or Foe?
Biofilms are nothing new to our world. As described in the Jeopardy question, they can be evident in any environment that has a flow of water and a surface to...
A Scientific and Fact-Based Critique of the Article “Aquatic Toxicity and Green Cleaning- What are the Facts?
From time to time, I have been invited to contribute to Sanitation Canada as a guest writer on topical issues important to the industry all of us serve. It is...
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