An article on a man in Melbourne who drank 6 bottles of hand sanitiser

This article by Greenpeace gives a brief overview of what dioxins are.

This is an interesting article of suggested 'green' cleaning products by Greenpeace

An article by Greenpeace on alternative cleaning products for the laundry

Attached is a press release from Disbin Sanitary Units

Accroding to an article in th NZ Herald, toilet seats are more hygenic to eat off than your kitchen chopping board

A press release talking about how the US Navy are now using alcohol free hand sanitisers

Dr Germ vistied the Close Up team and made some interesting points about hand hygiene

A study shown in the American Journal of Infection Control showed that absenteeism in schools reduced by 19.8% through the use of hand sanitisers

I saw this video on YouTube and thought it was very enterprising!

Virgin paper vs recycled paper, an interesting article. According to the article 27,000 trees a day are used to make toilet paper.

According to this article 1 tonne (909 kgs) of recycled paper will save 1,682kg of timber, 90,849 kgs of water, will use 64% less energy and 50% less water to produce. It will create 74% less air polution, saves 17 trees and will create 5 times more jobs than 1 tonne of virgin paper.

Not a recent article but still one that is very relevant. The Department of Labour found that many commercial cleaners were requiring employees to take home and wash cleaning cloths. This practice is hazardous to their health as well as not eliminating bacteria and virus' from the cloths.

The H1N1 pandemic is no longer discussed in our daily newspapers. A study was done and published by Eurosurveillance on whether the use of hand sanitisers has dropped in hospital foyers as a result of a decrease in media coverage. This interesting article shows a decrease from 18% to 8.2% of people using a hand santitiser as they entered a New Zealand hospital.

TVNZ ran a news story on prisoners drinking alcohol based sanitisers. Because alcohol sanitisers contain a minimum of 62% alcohol the prisoners have been adding a couple of squirts into cordial and drinking it. Attached is an article and video clip.

Note that our D-Germ sanitiser is alcohol free!

After 5 years of work the new Food Safety Bill is ready to go. This will affect all establishments that serve or prepare food. For more information click on the lick to be taken throgh to the NZFSA website article.

Don’t get pulled over by the police and accused of drink driving – see link to article on the effects of alcohol based hand sanitisers.

Note our D-Germ Hand Sanitiser is alcohol free!