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When cleaning soiled
areas are we cleaning
and disinfecting?
What Do The Experts Say?
International Federation of Infection Control.
“Thorough cleaning and drying should always precede
disinfecting and sterilization procedures”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
“Cleaning is the necessary first step of any sterilization or
disinfection process”
Disinfection Best Management Practices Minnesota
Technical Assistance Program.
“Surface cleaning should always precede disinfecting.”
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Is cleaning with a
disinfectant useful if we
know that cleaning with
a disinfectant is not
disinfecting?
What Do The Experts Say?
International Federation of Infection
Control.
“Environmental cleaning, floors,
surfaces, sinks and drains should be
cleaned with warm water and
detergent. Routine use of disinfectants is
unnecessary.”
What Do The Experts Say?
Centers For Disease Control:
Recommendations for Hospitals: Cleaning
Housekeeping Surfaces.
Most if not all surfaces need to be cleaned only with
soap and water or detergent / disinfectant dependent on
the surface and degree of contamination. The actual
physical removal of microorganisms and soil by wiping or
scrubbing is probably as important, if not more so ,than
any antimicrobial effect of the cleaning agent used.”
What Do The Experts Say?
Disinfection Best Management Practices
Minnesota Technical Assistance Program
Many products are one-step cleaner/disinfectants. These
products are intended for use on relatively clean
surfaces. If a surface is dirty it should be pre-cleaned
before a one-step disinfectant is used.
Limit the use of antibacterial soaps. Widespread
use of antibacterials has created concern about
increasing bacterial resistance and pollution of drinking
water.
General Surface Cleaning physically removes all
visible dirt,organic matter and bacteria.It is normally
accomplished with water,mechanical action like
scrubbing and detergents.
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Cleaning with a disinfectant cleaner
makes up for poor cleaning habits,
like not changing cleaning solutions
when dirty or washing and rinsing
cleaning cloths.
What Do The Experts Say?
Centers for Disease Control Reference to
Cleaning With One Step Disinfectant
Cleaner
“Part of the cleaning strategy is to minimize
contamination of cleaning solutions and cleaning tools.
Bucket solutions become contaminated almost
immediately during cleaning, and continued use of the
solution transfers increasing numbers of microorganisms
to each subsequent surface to be cleaned.”
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Are disinfectant cleaners
no more harmful than
regular cleaners?
What Do The Experts Say?
Disinfectant Best Management
Practices. Minnesota Technical
Assistance Program
“Because disinfectants are designed to kill,
they are toxic. Most chemicals used as
disinfectants are corrosive, irritants and
potentially carcinogenic.”
What Do The Experts Say?
Disinfectants are designed to kill and
they have a great potential to cause
DNA damage to cells, cell mutations
and ultimately cancer.
WHAT IS CANCER?
Cancer is a group of diseases in which
abnormal cells in some organ go out of
control-growing and increasing number.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba.
What Do The Experts Say?
Disinfectants are designed to kill and they
have a great potential to cause DNA
damage to cells, cell mutations and
ultimately cancer.
What is cancer?
Normally, the cells in the body grow and reproduce
themselves, generally at the same rate at which the old
cells die. When cells grow out of control and form a
mass, the mass is called a tumor. There are two types of
tumors - benign and malignant. Benign tumors grow and
enlarge only at the site where they began.Malignant or
cancerous tumors can also invade and destroy the
normal tissue around them and spread to other parts of
the body.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba.
What Do The Experts Say?
Disinfectants are designed to kill and they
have a great potential to cause DNA
damage to cells, cell mutations and
ultimately cancer.
What is cancer?
Distant spread of cancer occurs when malignant cells
detach themselves from the original or primary tumor
and are carried to other parts of the body, causing more
tissue damage. When this happens, the cancer is said to
have metastasized. When tumors affect organs such as
the lungs, liver or brain, the damage and loss of organ
function eventually cause death.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba.
What Do The Experts Say?
Disinfectants are designed to kill and
they have a great potential to cause
DNA damage to cells, cell mutations
and ultimately cancer.
What is cancer?
Cancer usually takes many years to develop.
Exposures to carcinogens today will be causing
cancers many years into the future.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba.
What Do The Experts Say?
Disinfectants are designed to kill and
they have a great potential to cause
DNA damage to cells, cell mutations
and ultimately cancer.
In America cancer strikes 44% of men and 38%
of women.
In Canada 41% of males and 37.6% of women.
In Canada 27.4% of males and 23.1 % of
females will die from it.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba.
What Do The Experts Say?
Disinfectants are designed to kill and they
have a great potential to cause DNA
damage to cells, cell mutations and
ultimately cancer.
After decades of misleading assurances of major progress
in the war against cancer the National Cancer Institute
and the American Cancer Society in a stunning reversal
admitted that the incidence of cancer is expected to
double by 2050. (Epstein,et al,IJHS,32(4):669-707,2002.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba.
What Do The Experts Say?
Disinfectants are designed to kill and
they have a great potential to cause
DNA damage to cells, cell mutations
and ultimately cancer.
The Good News.
The World Health Organization estimates that
20% of cancers are genetic in origin and that
80% are environmentally based. This is good
news, because it means 80% of cancers are
preventable.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba.
What Do The Experts Say?
Disinfectants are designed to kill and
they have a great potential to cause
DNA damage to cells, cell mutations
and ultimately cancer.
The Good News.
There are safer ways of using these chemicals
when they are needed and some disinfecting
chemicals do not persist in the environment.
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What Do The Experts Say?
Many activitities in modern society
contribute to cancer.
The Good News.
We can change.
We can find a better way to treat our drinking water so
that we do not have to accept the fact that drinking
water can contribute to cancer.
We can find new ways of doing things, to stop
contaminating our air and water.
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What Do The Experts Say?
Many activitities in modern society
contribute to cancer.
The Good News.
We will change because, we will not accept the
forecast of the American Cancer Society of
cancer rates doubling by 2050.
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Do I have to clean with a
disinfectant cleaner by
law?
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There is no legal requirement to clean
with a disinfectant.
There may be a legal requirement to
disinfect surfaces.
The experts say cleaning must precede
any disinfecting..
Why Clean With Toxic
Disinfecting Chemicals?
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Did you know that a CDC study found disinfectants
and pesticides in blood and urine samples of 2000
average Americans?
Mount Sinai School of Medicine study found
ingredients found in pesticides, disinfectants, general
purpose, carpet and other cleaners in blood and urine
samples of nine volunteers, none of which work with
chemicals.
If you work with chemicals you should assume you
will have some of the chemicals you use or are
exposed to as part of your body burden.
Why Clean With Toxic
Disinfecting Chemicals?
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In a double blind study of 238 households and 1178
individuals, published by the American College of
Physicians (March 2nd Volume 140 issue 5 pages 321
to 329), households were provided cleaning products,
50% of which were antimicrobial cleaners and the
others were regular cleaners.The study tracked the
infection rates of all participants for 48 weeks .
The study concluded there is no benefit to using
antimicrobial soaps for cleaning. They could find no
definitive evidence that use of antibacterial products
for environmental cleaning reduced the risk for
infections in the home or hospital settings.
(This in no way suggests there is no benefit to
disinfecting surfaces after cleaning.)
Good Cleaning Is The Key
To Good Disinfection
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Never ignore your own
safety during cleaning
Avoid undue exposure to
disinfecting chemicals
Limit the use of
Disinfectants to
disinfecting
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Use safer disinfecting
methods.
Avoid undue exposure to
disinfecting chemicals.
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