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  • 16.1.2017

    Hand hygiene while travelling

    What do the remote control in a hotel room, the soap dispenser in a public bathroom and the hand straps of an airport shuttle bus have in common? Invisible unwanted residue from the hands of all the other people that have touched the same items. Maybe they coughed in their hands before getting on the bus?  Or perhaps they held on to the handrails of an escalator, which are competing for the greatest concentration of microbes.

     

  • 31.10.2016

    Food and Hygiene: Carefulness Alone is Not Enough

    EHEC on sprouts, norovirus in lettuce, salmonella on meat products. Time and again, there are new headlines about foods that cause diseases. Is this just an occasional phenomenon? Not even close. In the United States, 48 million cases of food-borne diseases are recorded every year, almost 130,000 people are hospitalized, and 3,000 cases are deadly. These figures are from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and describe this omnipresent, underestimated risk.

     

  • 31.10.2016

    PURE ZONE: Food Safety Initiative

    SANITIZED Conducts Joint Research with Leading Film Providers

    Fewer infections through food: driven by this objective, four leading companies have combined their efforts under and the name PUREZONE to conduct joint research.

     

  • 22.8.2016

    Hygiene on the move: More peace of mind while travelling with Sanitized®

    Unpleasant is a subtle understatement for many experiences in a public restroom on a train, in a train or metro station and in airports around the world. However, even bathrooms in hotels conceal risks due to the high guest turnover.

     

  • 22.8.2016

    Multiple benefits for products and brands: Sanitized® Ingredient Brand

    Brands give consumers focus and confidence and provide the increasingly desired transparency in the production chain. More and more manufacturers of textile and polymer products are therefore using the ingredient branding option, thus labelling their articles with the Sanitized® Ingredient Brand.

     

  • 29.3.2016

    Hospital hygiene research: the hospital bed

    The fatal effects of a lack of adequate hygiene in hospitals and nursing care facilities are shown by the continued high number of patient infections, including those due to MRSA.

     

  • 29.3.2016

    Mattress hygiene: Sanitized® successful in long-term testing

    Even after six years of use during regular hotel operation there is no evidence of any allergens in a Sanitized® treated mattress. This was the result of a long-term study in conjunction with the 4-star Hotel Stadthaus in Burgdorf/CH.

     

  • 25.1.2016

    New SANITIZED TecCenter: Practical Testing of Applications

    SANITIZED’s own new TecCenter is available to customers to research and test the latest applications and application techniques for polymer and textile products. The research center completed in 2016 provides SANITIZED customers with comprehensive expertise and state-of-the-art infrastructure.

     

  • 25.1.2016

    From “A” to “Z” Service Package from Analysis to Certification: Systematic Success Management by SANITIZED

    Top quality products are a matter of course at SANITIZED. Furthermore, a comprehensive package of services ranging from the selection of additives to assistance in designing marketing tools is available to customers.

     

  • 25.1.2016

    The Shortest Route to the “Best Available Technology”: the SANITIZED Technology Platform

    There are many options for antimicrobial treatments of polymers or textiles. Which antimicrobial effects can be applied with which methods such as foulard, extrusion, extraction or coating? Which active ingredient can be optimally integrated into existing production processes.

     

  • 12.11.2015

    Safe travel: airplane hygiene

    For an increasing number of people handwashing after going to the bathroom has become a matter of course – particularly when one is traveling. It is not just the public bathrooms and airplane toilets where most of the bacteria are …

     

  • 12.11.2015

    Where people leave traces behind: the hotel bed

    Have you already estimated how many people slept in your hotel bed before you? Fresh bedding is a matter of course in good hotels. Yet how frequently are the mattresses, pillows or covers cleaned? People lose up to half a …