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Six Steps To Protect Against The Spread Of NorovirusNorovirus is the second most frequent cause of illness after the common cold. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain, and occur between 24 and 48 hours after exposure. Norovirus can be life-threatening for the elderly and immunocompromised.
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) has six simple steps to protect families against noroviruses. These include: Step 1. Practice Proper Hand HygieneFrequent hand washing is always the best defense. This includes washing hands for at least 15 seconds (sing the happy birthday song twice) or using hand sanitizers like CLEANpHIRST™ Alcohol-Free Hand Sanitizer, which has a 99.999% kill rate; – rubbing until hands are dry. Step 2. Clean with CLEANpHIRST™If you’ve had the bug, use CLEANpHIRST™ Decon 3D to disinfect all surfaces. Wear disposable gloves, and don’t forget to maintain frequently used surfaces like door knobs and light switches with CLEANpHIRST™ Ultra Clean. After cleaning, dispose of or sanitize cloths in hot water and CLEANpHIRST™ Decon 3D. Step 3. Food and Water SafetyAvoid joining an estimated 9.2 million cases of foodborne norovirus infections each year by preventing food contamination. Always wash raw food before eating, and don’t eat food prepared by someone who is ill until 2-3 days after symptoms have cleared. Step 4. Don’t Air Your Dirty LaundryDirect contact with a sick person is not required to contaminate soft surfaces. The norovirus can spread from a contaminated pillowcase to a clean towel in a pile of laundry. To disinfect laundry, wash with hot water and CLEANpHIRST™ Laundry Detergent, then dry on “high.” Add CLEANpHIRST™ Decon 3D to your wash for more heavily soiled items. Step 5. Contain OutbreaksImmediately quarantine those who are sick. Don’t forget to disinfect everything with CLEANpHIRST™ Decon 3D, and wear protective gloves while cleaning. Step 6. Prevent OutbreaksDon’t wait for an outbreak to occur to clean up. Ward off norovirus by maintaining a clean household and regularly disinfecting surfaces with CLEANpHIRST™ products.
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The ConsumerMan at MSNBC has a stinky laundry problem and we have the solution...When you buy a new washing machine, you don’t expect it to stink up your house. But that seems to be a common problem for people who own high-efficiency front-loading washers.
Rae Lembersky of Seattle likes her front-loader. It saves water and electricity and gets the family’s clothes clean. But she hated the smell.
"Imagine that you're in one of those movies where there's a swamp monster and it's that kind of swampy, musty, sort of yucky smell."
Lembersky could see what was causing the stink. She found “black, gooey, slimy stuff” growing inside the rubber gasket which goes around the glass window on the washer door. That was quite a surprise because she regularly cleans the machine and runs loads with bleach and hot water.
“It just gives me the willies,” she says. “I don't like the thought of mold in my washer.”
Desperate for relief, she hired technician Scott Wiseman to remove and replace the disgusting rubber gasket. Once he took the washer apart, Wiseman found mold inside the machine, too. The job cost $300.
“It’s a very common problem,” Wiseman tells me. “I get calls about this all the time.” In fact, there are over 200 comments on Herb Weisbaum's story on stinky laundry machines. DepHyze™ Laundry Detergent is an extremely-safe, non-toxic and ultra-powerful chemical decontaminant, antimicrobial disinfectant, and moldicide available in a liquid formulation for disinfection, decontamination, demolding and mold prevention in industrial and consumer laundry machines. This means no stinky laundry room, machine or clothes! DepHyze Laundry Detergent is also (HE) High Efficiency Washer friendly!
Use 1 oz of each Part I and Part II (2 oz. total) for each load in a residential washing machine, each Pack contains enough detergent for 30-32 loads.
While we encourage you to use the laundry detergent with every wash cycle, it is not necessary. The detergent will build “zones of protection” on the textiles that inhibit the growth of micro-organisms that should last through 2-3 wash cycles of your regular detergent. Sports uniforms and other workout clothes that can trap odor causing bacteria from sweat, might need to be treated more often.
As a result of an unprecedented Log 5 efficacy (99.999 percent), medical, veterinary and laundry facilities no longer need to use less effective products that require hot water to kill germs and bacteria; instead, they can use DepHyze™ Laundry Detergent to wash hospital gowns, scrubs, sheets, uniforms, aprons, etc., without the assistance of heat and, thereby, reduce energy consumption and lower energy bills. Labels: apartment cleaning, cleaning tips, house cleaning, laundry detergent
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Officially one week into autumn, many Americans find themselves driven to clean house before the cold of winter arrives and the holiday party season begins. Below, we offer six suggestions to make your cleaning easier and more effective:  Concentrate on your main rooms (i.e., living room, family room, entryway, guest bath);
- Conduct a thorough top-to-bottom cleaning that includes vacuuming drapes, window treatments, baseboards and corners and cleaning all surfaces thoroughly;
- Vacuum all carpets in your home, then treat those carpets with DepHyze™ Carpet Cleaner to ensure you not only clean your carpets effectively, but also eliminate odors in your home through 100 percent true chemical negation (not masking);
 Use DepHyze™ Decon 3D, an ultra-powerful cleaner and disinfectant monthly to thoroughly clean your entire home and follow up by using DepHyze™ Ultra Clean as needed thereafter to keep most bacteria, germs, viruses, mold and mildew under control;
- Use DepHyze™ Laundry Detergent to wash all machine-washable bedding, clothing and lines at least once every two to three loads; and
 Stock up on Aloe Up® Alcohol-Free Foam Hand Sanitizer to ensure your family has ready access to an extremely-safe, effective, non-irritating, non-flammable and non-staining alternative to alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
Embrace the steps above, and your home will be clean, safe and ready for both daily living and special holiday gatherings. To learn more about any of the cleaning products mentioned above, click here. Labels: apartment cleaning, carpet cleaning, cleaning tips, Hand Sanitizer, house cleaning, laundry detergent, surface cleaning
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Less that a fourth of readers who responded to an informal survey conducted by the Denver Business Journal said their companies have plans in place for dealing with an outbreak of H1N1 “swine” flu. For business owners who find themselves among the “unprepared,” it’s not too late to prepare. Below, CLEANpHIRST™ offers 5 Easy-to-Implement Ways to Minimize the Impact of a Flu Pandemic on Your Business:  - Clean all carpeted areas in your workplace with DepHyze™ Carpet Cleaner, a product that effectively cleans your carpets while delivering 100 percent chemical negation of odors instead of just masking them. Learn more about it here.
- Kill “superbugs” before they have a chance to impact your workforce by using DepHyze™ Decon 3D, an ultra-powerful cleaner and disinfectant, once a month. Learn more about it here.
 - Hold the high ground over those same superbugs by using DepHyze™ Ultra Clean, an all-purpose, one-step cleaner, for daily cleaning throughout your workplace. Learn more about it here.
- Treat all of your linens, clothing and other machine-washable items with DepHyze™ Laundry Detergent, a product that requires no warm water — and, therefore, less energy — to effectively clean your commercial- and industrial-size loads. Learn more about it here.
Wondering how to get started? It’s easy: visit http://CLEANpHIRST.com. Labels: carpet cleaning, cleaning tips, decontamination, Hand Sanitizer, laundry detergent, Prevent Flu Infection, surface cleaning
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The staff at CLEANpHIRST™, an authorized reseller of Tionicon products that eradicate methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, applauds the work of the MRSA Survivors Network, the official organization for World MRSA Day. In an effort to raise awareness about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, the Chicago-based group is holding a kick-off event Oct. 1 at 11 a.m. at Loyola University's downtown campus (Lewis Towers, Beane Hall, 13th floor). World MRSA Day will be observed Oct. 2 with MRSA-related activists and health care organizations holding events throughout the month of October as part of World MRSA Awareness Month. If you work in a health care setting, DepHyze™ Decon 3D stands as a proven, effective solution to help you in your never-ending struggle with MRSA. For instance, it offers: - Extraordinary Effectiveness – A two-part product, DepHyze™ Decon 3D has the potential to reach “7 Log” efficacy ratings — or 99.99999% kill rates against the most-potent “superbugs”. In comparison, the leading mass-marketed commercial cleaning products are limited to 3 Log (99.9%) or 4 Log (99.99%) effectiveness — vastly inferior in the world of microorganisms where reproduction rates are factored exponentially.
- Residual Killing Effect – Substrates that have been cleaned with DepHyze™ Decon 3D will maintain a sterile surface for long periods and keep killing over time. For example, an interior ceiling or wall treated with DepHyze™ Decon 3D and not routinely cleaned or abraded can demonstrate residual killing ability for more than two years!
- Non-toxic – Even though DepHyze™ Decon 3D is extremely powerful, it is also biodegradable and not harmful to humans or animals.
- Eliminates Odors – DepHyze™ Decon 3D is 100 percent effective in eliminating foul odors, providing complete biological and chemical odor negation via true chemical neutralization instead of simply masking smells.
- Easy to Use – No special equipment or training is required to use DepHyze™ Decon 3D. In fact, it can be applied in numerous ways (i.e., spray, brush, wipe, mop, mist, etc.). One gallon of the product can treat up to 2,000 square feet.
To learn more about DepHyze™ Decon 3D or to order the product for your health care facility, click here.FYI: CLEANpHIRST™ also carries the entire line of products featuring DepHyze™ technology, including an everyday cleaner/disinfectant, an alcohol-free hand sanitizer, a cold-water laundry detergent, a carpet cleaner and more. Labels: carpet cleaning, cleanphirst, dephyze, laundry detergent, mrsa staph infection, surface cleaning
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While only 1 in 10 Americans surveyed claimed to be very worried about H1N1 flu (a.k.a., “Swine Flu”), 93 percent are taking or planning to take at least one action to guard against this new flu, according to results of a recent American Red Cross poll made public in a news release this morning. Arguably the best actions Americans can take, however, is a thorough, top-to-bottom cleaning of their homes, schools, athletic facilities and workplaces using products containing DepHyze™ cleaning technology. Available in products from CLEANpHIRST™, DepHyze™ technology was developed from a base formula originally developed at Sandia National Laboratories as a solution to the military’s need to neutralize chemical and biological weapons. Subsequent to the first Gulf War, SNL commercially licensed the formula to private-sector companies, including Aurora, Colo.-based Tionicon™. Charlie Talley, the lead chemist for Tionicon™, was one of the first scientists to understand the potential of the base formula and conducted a decade’s worth of research to prove its capability for numerous commercial applications. Those capabilities, as offered in one of the company’s premier products, DepHyze™ Decon 3D, include the following: - Extraordinary Effectiveness – A two-part product, DepHyze™ Decon 3D has the potential to reach “7 Log” efficacy ratings — or 99.99999% kill rates against the most-potent “superbugs”. In comparison, the leading mass-marketed commercial cleaning products are limited to 3 Log (99.9%) or 4 Log (99.99%) effectiveness — vastly inferior in the world of microorganisms where reproduction rates are factored exponentially.
- Residual Killing Effect – Substrates that have been cleaned with DepHyze™ Decon 3D will maintain a sterile surface for long periods and keep killing over time. For example, an interior ceiling or wall treated with DepHyze™ Decon 3D and not routinely cleaned or abraded can demonstrate residual killing ability for more than two years!
- Non-toxic – Even though DepHyze™ Decon 3D is extremely powerful, it is also biodegradable and not harmful to humans or animals.
- Eliminates Odors – DepHyze™ Decon 3D is 100 percent effective in eliminating foul odors, providing complete biological and chemical odor negation via true chemical neutralization instead of simply masking smells.
- Easy to Use – No special equipment or training is required to use DepHyze™ Decon 3D. In fact, it can be applied in numerous ways (i.e., spray, brush, wipe, mop, mist, etc.). One gallon of the product can treat up to 2,000 square feet.
As an authorized Tionicon™ reseller, CLEANpHIRST™ carries the entire line of products featuring DepHyze™ technology, including an alcohol-free hand sanitizer, a cold-water laundry detergent, a carpet cleaner and more. To learn more about them and/or to order some for use in your home, office, school or athletic facility, click here. Labels: carpet cleaning, cleaning sports equipment, cleanphirst, commercial cleaning, dephyze, H1N1 Swine Flu, Hand Sanitizer, house cleaning, laundry detergent, school cleaning
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