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September 2007

ATP Systems Help Put Clean to the Test

By Robert W. Powitz, Ph.D., MPH
Since my first day as a sanitarian, I have been vexed by the question, "How clean is clean?" Throughout my career the answer to this question has been punctuated by differences of opinion among my public health inspection colleagues, particularly in evaluating food contact surfaces and citing them for not being clean to "sight and touch."

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Science Everywhere but in Cleaning

Although computers, cell phones, and MP3 technology seem to get most of the media’s attention, it is actually the many new developments in healthcare technology that are changing our lives by improving health like never before. And medical procedures that were once complicated, requiring long hospital stays and patient recuperation, are now handled on an outpatient basis with rapid patient recovery.

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The Evolution of Toilet Paper

We often take the simple things for granted. Often because we don't know what life would be like without them. It's only within the last hundred years that most of our modern luxuries have come about. Most people don't give a second thought about having access to rolls of toilet paper. But imagine what life was like before this relatively modern innovation.

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Did You Know?

"Pathogens can remain alive and active even on dry surfaces, and be picked up by hands, feet, etc. A large percentage of seemingly normal asymptomatic individuals can be carriers of pathogens. MRSA is a good example of this. Perhaps 15-30% of so-called normal individuals are carriers of MRSA; that's why the problem is so widespread."

Jay Glasel, PhD
Microbiologist

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