Manual dishwashing study digs up dirt on dish cleanliness
New research at Ohio State University answers an infectious question about eating at restaurants: How clean are manually washed dishes? Jaesung Lee and Melvin Pascall found that even when they washed dishes in cooler-than-recommended water, numbers of bacteria on the dishware dropped to levels accepted in the Food and Drug Administration's Food Code. They also found that certain foods—espe...Cleanliness might lead to Asthma
mong the young. According to a new study out of Switzerland finds children who are exposed to greater levels of dust are actually less likely to also have asthma or allergies. Researchers had parents of children ages 7 to 12 fill out questionnaires// regarding asthma and hay fever. They also took blood samples from the kids to test for measures related to allergic sensitization. Then they gathere...Cleanliness Standards Dropped In NHS Hospitals – Patient Report
A survey on NHS hospitals revealed falling standards of cleanliness despite Government promises to clean dirty wards//. Comparing to 56 percent people in 2002, only 52 percent reported about clean wards. Simultaneously about 51 percent in 2003 said lavatories were very clean, but only 46 percent this year. Contradicting the above, the annual NHS patients' survey reported high levels of...Cleanliness and Personal Hygiene –The Mantra to Prevent Food Poisonin
Food poisoning posed a great danger in terms of life and money. It has been one of the leading causes of death among the scots. According to the statistics it was found that the number of cases rose by 6% last year //. About 7147 Scots are affected by food poisoning every day. But the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (Rehis) said that this was not the real figure as many cases wer...Three Scottish Hospitals Fail To Meet Cleanliness Standards: NHS
Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary, the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley and the Raigmore in Inverness do not maintain hygiene standards, according to the quarterly report// released by NHS in Scotland. The study categorized hospitals by traffic light with red for hospitals failing to meet even 70% of the set standards, amber for hospitals in the 70% and 90% range and green for above 90%...."Macbeth effect"- study correlates cleanliness and conscience!!
A recent study reveals that guilty minds may send people rushing for soap!// People who recollect acting unethically are more attracted to cleansing products than those who recall behaving ethically. This was reported in the study published in Science. Chen-Bo Zhong, of the Rotman School of Management at Canada's University of Toronto and Katie Liljenquist, a graduate studen...