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Sanisys NEWS MRSA in School Sports and Classrooms Antibacterial products may be helping to create superbugs. MRSA in School Sports and Classrooms Sanisys is testing a service for schools, doctor's offices and nursing homes in select markets in February of 2008. This service utilizes the SS-20 Sanitizing System and Formula D2 Sanitizing Solution to Stop MRSA and other infectious pathogens on high contact surfaces. Used by hospitals and food processing plants, the SS-20 Sanitizing System uses CO2 gas to deliver a non-flammable, environmentally safe and effective sanitizing on surfaces without corrosion. Computers, phones, toys, furniture and other high touch surfaces can be sanitized without wiping or rinsing and are dry in minutes. Schools can use the service to reduce the potential for MRSA in sports and classroom environments. Doctors can sanitize exam rooms, waiting areas, equipment and phones without damage to equipment or disruption of service to patients. Previously only available to SS-20 System owners, the sanitizing capability will be offered to schools and doctors offices. "People who know that they need to sanitize at a higher level now have a solution that is affordable and managed by experts", states Chuck Carman of Sanisys. "With the track record demonstrated by our product in healthcare and food processing industries, we are ready to offer a service for people who want sanitizing without the investment in training and equipment." [TOP] Antibacterial products may be helping to create superbugs. Tuberculosis, food poisoning, cholera, pneumonia, strep throat and meningitis: these are just a few of the unsavory diseases caused by bacteria. Hygiene —keeping both home and body clean —is one of the best ways to curb the spread of bacterial infections, but lately consumers are getting the message that washing with regular soap is insufficient. Antibacterial products have never been so popular. Body soaps, household cleaners, sponges, even mattresses and lip glosses are now packing bacteria-killing ingredients, and scientists question what place, if any, these chemicals have in the daily routines of healthy people. Traditionally, people washed bacteria from their bodies and homes using soap and hot water, alcohol, chlorine bleach or hydrogen peroxide. These substances act nonspecifically, meaning they wipe out almost every type of microbe in sight —fungi, bacteria and some viruses —rather than singling out a particular variety. Soap works by loosening and lifting dirt, oil and microbes from surfaces so they can be easily rinsed away with water, whereas general cleaners such as alcohol inflict sweeping damage to cells by demolishing key structures, then evaporate. "They do their job and are quickly dissipated into the environment," explains microbiologist Stuart Levy of Tufts University School of Medicine. Unlike these traditional cleaners, antibacterial products leave surface residues, creating conditions that may foster the development of resistant bacteria, Levy notes.

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