Media Center: Cleaning for Health Videos

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  Cleaning the Restroom for Health

  From an environmental health scientist's point of view, a restroom is a high risk environment. At its most basic level the restroom is a bio-hazardous waste transfer station -- the place where biological waste is transferred from the human digestive system to the sanitary sewer system. All too often the transfer does not occur effectively, and bio-hazardous waste is spread through different areas of the indoor environment, creating a breeding ground for potentially harmful microbes.

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  Is Your Cleaning Program Ready for H1N1?

  An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and it?s becoming clear that the best way to deal with disease is not to treat it but to prevent it through hygienic cleaning of environmental surfaces, especially those that come into direct contact with skin.

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  Remove It. Prove It.

  The purpose of this video is to expose the truth about the soil removal capabilities of different cleaning approaches, and to show through scientific measurement that not all cleaning tools deliver healthy results.

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  The Germiest Building in America

  Every weekday nearly 60 million Americans - one-fifth of the entire population - spend eight hours trapped inside what some experts consider the "Germiest" place in America. Trapped inside this building with them are millions of invisible enemies, seeking to make them ill or, sometimes, kill them. These denizens of the invisible world are all around us - on virtually every surface. We're talking about MRSA, E.coli, influenza, shigella, and molds.