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Cross
Contanimation in Dishwashers
Summary:
Dishwashers are used in central hospital kitchens and ward
kitchens to provide clean crockery. Soil recipes based on
international standards were tested in order to evaluate
the performance of a general dishwasher. In normal use of
dishwashers, adherent soild are left on the crockery before
cleaning. Different adherent soils, both with and without
bacterial contamination, were used to show the effectiveness
of the dishwasher to remove this type of soil. It was shown
that contamination will occur from the dishwaster to crockery
with adherent soil. These results demonstrate the importance
of cleaning soiled surfaces of crockery mechanically in
the dishwashing process. Otherwise cross-contamination,
and thereby the spread of infections, may occur. ( Read
Article )
Deadly
Superbug Spreads
Summary:
Microbe moving out of hospitals into communities. The presence
of an antibiotic resistant superbug in Canadian hospitals
has soared more than tenfold in the past decade, causing
up to 1,000 deaths annually and costing hospitals $100 million
a year, says a new federal report and one of its authors.
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Article )
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