Five disinfectant chemicals were tested individually for effectiveness against low pathogenic avian influenza virus (LPAIV), A/H7N2/Chick/MinhMa/04, on hard, nonporous surfaces. The tested agents included acetic acid, calcium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, sodium hydroxide, and a powdered laundry detergent without bleach. Multiple common chemicals including acetic acid (1 and 3%), sodium hydroxid...

QUESTION A 4-year-old girl was brought into the emergency department vomiting after having had ingested a laundry detergent capsule (LDC) from under the sink at her house. What is the risk of LDC poisoning? What can be done to treat these children? ANSWER Laundry detergent capsules are relatively new to supermarket shelves in North America, and there has been an emergence of case reports in t...

BACKGROUND There is limited information about the removal of allergens by laundry washing. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this investigation was to determine the dynamics of the removal of mite allergen (Der p 1) and cat allergen (Fel d 1) from bed dust during simulated laundry processes. METHODS Three studies were performed. The first compared combinations of 4 laundry agents (water alone, soap,...

OBJECTIVE Most professionals in the healthcare environment wear uniforms. For the purpose of this study, we concentrated on nurses' uniforms. In the United Kingdom, many nurses are expected to launder their uniforms at home by using a domestic washing machine that frequently has low-temperature wash cycles. We have investigated whether the use of low-temperature wash cycles results in a microbi...

Lipases are the enzymes of choice for laundry detergent industries owing to their triglyceride removing ability from the soiled fabric which eventually reduces the usage of phosphate-based chemical cleansers in the detergent formulation. In the present study, a partially purified bacterial lipase from Staphylococcus arlettae JPBW-1 isolated from the rock salt mine has been assessed for its trig...

Laundry detergent containing anionic surfactants was used to test their effects on plant growth through irrigation water. Lettuce and okra were cultivated in pot experiment and irrigated with distilled water containing domestic detergent at three different concentrations: low concentration (LC) of 0.1 g L-1; normal concentration (NC) of 1.0 g L-1 and high concentration (HC) of 5.0 g L-1 and dis...