Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: infection control

[Hans Tilstra (tilstra]

> At 15:15 05/17/2000 , RowenaHC [at] cs.com wrote:
 >Hot water, soap, and air drying are the best way to avoid infection.   It
is
 >FAR more important to ban all sponges and other harborers of germs, and to
 >make sure that individuals wash their hands (taking 10 seconds to soap up
 >before rinsing) before touching any food items, than  to mess around with
 >chlorine dips, which don't work unless you leave stuff to soak for about
10
 >seconds in any case!

If you aspire to an organisational standard (eg. HACCP), then infection
control has three steps;
- use detergent & hot water to shift dirt
- use fresh bleach in ratio as instructed to kill germs
- air dry (rather than using tea towels etc.)

In the kitchen, a clean-as-you-go rather than a pile up with a long wait for
the dishwashing crew is recommended. Bleach is mandated when cleaning
bloodspills or faeces.

Hans