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BACTERIA: THE UNEXPECTED ALLY
In this month’s column, Matt Baines of Premiere Products looks at the nation’s obsession with so-called ‘bad bacteria’, and how cleaners can actually utilise ‘friendly’ bacteria to effectively clean many operatives’ worst nightmare – the gent’s toilets.
As I write we are well into winter and the festive season (or silly season depending on your perspective!) is rapidly approaching. Whilst many of us will be building to a state of panicked frenzy in our attempts to ensure that we have everything in place and just as we would want it come the big day, there are of course other concerns that affect many – some might say too many – at this time of year.
Clearly I’m talking about the significant increase in reported cases of certain illness types we experience during the winter as compared to other times of the year. Whilst I don’t wish for one moment to undermine the discomfort and distress people endure whilst contending with these various ailments, I’m afraid that the sensationalised way in which these matters are often covered by the media tends to instill fear and an almost pathological aversion to ‘bacteria’. I say ‘bacteria’ in quote marks given the fact that for many people it has incorrectly become the
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ultimate dirty word (if you’ll forgive the pun!) and as a nation we appear to have embarked on a single minded mission to obliterate ‘bacteria’ from our homes and workplaces.
One only has to spend an average evening watching TV to realise quite how deep this obsession runs. Not only are we bombarded with adverts punting the latest in bacteria destroying bathroom and kitchen cleaning technology but there is also a distinct chance that the programme being watched either side of these adverts panders to the rubbernecker inside us ‘normal’ folks who like to marvel at the polar extremes of obsessive compulsive cleaning and the squalid living conditions that are often the result of hoarding.
However it is very much the case that bacteria are not universally bad. In fact humans would not be able to survive without the functions fulfilled by ‘good’ or probiotic bacteria which assist in digesting food, boosting our immune system and producing insulin, to name but a few benefits.
If harnessed and applied correctly bacteria can also aid the removal of protein based soils as part of the cleaning process. Here at Premiere Products we have a range of bacteria containing cleaning chemicals we like to refer to as smart products, given that they employ innovative technology and tend to work under their own steam with less reliance on old fashioned elbow grease.
One such product is Bio Fresh, which was originally formulated to work in harmony with waterless urinal systems.
For the uninitiated, waterless urinal systems were born out of the juxtaposition between us becoming more conscious of wasting water for reasons of sustainability, versus those establishments with large rows of urinals (such as motorway service stations), which were set to flush every five minutes or so morning, noon & night, regardless of whether they were being used or not.
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