The contamination of minimally processed fresh products such as fresh-cut Iceberg lettuce with microorganisms especially Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp. is a serious safety problem in the fresh food business. Therefore, the elimination of such microorganisms on sliced Iceberg lettuce by washing with water, ozonated water (1.5 ppm ozone concentration) and combinations of both was investigat...

BACKGROUND In Japan, the number of beds and average length of stay in a psychiatric ward are greater than in other developed countries. OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to investigate the association between family variables and the length of stay of patients with mental and behavioural disorders in a private psychiatric hospital in Japan. METHODS The medical records of patients discharged...

The removal of malathion from soil by surfactant washing was investigated under various physical-chemical states of the malathion. Three distinctive phases (without nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPL), with NAPL, and the transitional zone of NAPL) were found to be important for a better understanding of the washing process. When there is no NAPL in the system, the washing process is less dependent ...

OBJECTIVE To describe washing machine related injuries in children in the United States. METHODS Injury data for 496 washing machine related injuries documented by the Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System and death certificate data files were analyzed. Gender, age, diagnosis, body part injured, disposition, location and mechanism of injury were c...

Washing hands with soap at the right times - primarily after contact with faeces, but also before handling food or feeding an infant - can significantly reduce the incidence of childhood infectious disease. Here, we present empirical results which substantiate a recent claim that washing hands can be the consequence of different kinds of psychological causes. Such causes can be divided into thr...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES   Patients with anaphylactic transfusion reactions require washed platelet concentrates (PCs) for subsequent platelet (PLT) transfusions. New PLT additive solutions (PASs) contain substances that might be beneficial for the preservation of PLT function during storage. This study compares the quality of PLTs washed and stored with T-Sol, Composol or SSP+. STUDY DESIGN...

The adsorption properties of olive wood (OW) toward phenol, 2-chlorophenol, 3-chlorophenol, 4-chlorophenol, 2-nitrophenol, 4-nitrophenol and 2,4-dinitrophenol, were improved by washing OW with some organic solvents (ethanol, tetrahydrofuran, ether, dichloromethane or hexane). Adsorption isotherms were classified according to Giles and Smith classification, in which L2-shape was obtained after O...

With the building wastes contaminated by chromium in Haibei Chemical Plan in China as objects, we studied the contents of total Cr and Cr (VI) of different sizes, analyzed the effect of 6 different washing agents, discussed the removal mechanisms of 6 different washing agents for Cr in various forms, and finally selected applicable washing agent. As per the results, particle size had little imp...

BACKGROUND Recent interest in the role of vulnerability factors in obsessional washing has suggested that disgust sensitivity, danger expectancy and health anxiety may be of interest. AIMS This study explores the differential impact of these factors on both behavioural and cognitive measures of washing behaviour and is based on a replication of the Jones and Menzies (1997) experiment, during ...