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Another line of defence
15th of April 2010
At the beginning of this year a hospital in Ireland became the first in the world to specify the use of hygienic copper door handles throughout its buildings in a bid to reduce healthcare associated infections. ECJ invited the European Copper Institute to write exclusively about the properties copper possesses which make it so effective in such
Too green to be good?
15th of April 2010
Increasingly tough legislation and a change in public attitudes have resulted in a marked switch towards 'greener' chemical products in the cleaning industry. But are we going too far down the environmental route at the expense of good cleaning performance? And is the 'green' movement making life difficult for the chemical manufacturers? Ann
Must use wisely
15th of April 2010
At the end of last year newspapers featured a story about research carried out in Ireland which suggested that disinfectants used in hospitals can actually increase the growth of fatal ‘superbugs’. This research had concluded that bugs are able to become resistant to disinfectants which are meant to kill them. Not only that, they can
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