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Bouncing Back After a COVID Outbreak in Your School
9/30/2021
By Dawn Yeomans, Ph.D.
Research Principal, GOJO Industries
With trusted organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics advocating for in-person learning this school year, keeping schools open and safe for students and staff is a top priority. Unfortunately, no matter how good your school's infection prevention strategy and how many mitigation layers it contains, COVID-19 outbreaks and school closures are on the rise, with schools across the country temporarily shutting down as infection rates soar in their classrooms and communities.
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Product Certifications Help Drive Sustainable Innovation at GOJO
9/21/2021
By Dylan Beach
Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
GOJO was founded 75 years ago on a safer way to clean hands, with the development of the first-ever one-step, rinse-off GOJO® Hand Cleaner as an alternative to the harsh solvents of the day that rubber factory workers used to remove tar and carbon black from their hands. We carry the same safe and effective design ethos forward with us today. Our formulations are based on decades of scientific innovation, using high-quality ingredients rigorously tested for safety and efficacy, like USP grade ethanol.
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Managing Listeria Outbreaks in Retail and Foodservice Establishments
9/14/2021
By Chip Manuel, Ph.D.
Food Safety Science Advisor, GOJO Industries
Members of the bacterial genus Listeria are frequently found in the environment, soil, and vegetation; however, the species Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono) is a significant pathogen of concern in the food industry and is a hardy organism capable of thriving in conditions beyond what other organisms can survive in. L. mono can flourish in various environments or food products, including high-salt environments, moist conditions, and more terrifyingly, at refrigerated temperatures - even below 33.8˚F!
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The Role of IoT in Hand Hygiene Dispensers
8/31/2021
By Tamara Cross
Total Solutions Director, IoT Product Category
Hand sanitizer and soap dispensers have become ubiquitous. When you walk into a hospital, restaurant, airport, stadium, mall, or office building, hand sanitizer is welcoming you with an invitation to clean your hands as you transition into the facility. In fact, 84% of people expect hand sanitizer to be offered in public places. Business owners and facility operators began offering hand sanitizer to help make their patrons, employees, and guests feel safe while they’re visiting.
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Contaminated Surfaces – A Cross Contamination Risk in Retail and Foodservice Establishments
8/23/2021
By Hal King, Ph.D.
Managing Partner, Active Food Safety and Founder/CEO of Public Health Innovations
Also By Chip Manuel, Ph.D.
Food Safety Science Advisor, GOJO Industries
Cross-contamination is an important concept to understand in the field of Food Safety management. It can be loosely defined as “the physical movement or transfer of harmful pathogens [or allergens, sometimes further defined as cross contact] from one person, object or place to another.” While this definition is broad, it illustrates the variety of ways pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and even allergens can move around within a retail and foodservice establishment and onto ready-to-eat foods. One frequent way is through cross-contamination of surfaces.
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Sustainable Focus: Significant Waste Reduction through Improved Injection Molding Tools
8/17/2021
By Dylan Beach
Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
Is it possible for an organization to ramp up manufacturing while maintaining a commitment to sustainability? Last year, in light of the market-altering impacts of the pandemic on the hand hygiene space, GOJO took significant steps to expand its capacity to meet the exponential increase in demand for PURELL® sanitizer, soap, wipes, and surface spray. These substantial investments help us be ready for future surges like we saw in 2020.
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Interactive Hand Hygiene Experiments for K-12 Students
8/10/2021
By Dawn Yeomans, Ph.D.
Research Principal, GOJO Industries
Schools are germy settings. As students go about their day at school, they touch shared objects like computer mice, water fountains, gym equipment, or the lunch checkout keypad, which contains thousands of germs. Some of those germs will hang out on their hands and can be introduced into their bodies when they touch their eyes, nose, and mouth.
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Why Choose PURELL® Surface Disinfection Products Over a Competitors? It’s on The Label.
8/5/2021
By Ann Marie Hicho
Total Solutions Senior Manager - Surfaces, GOJO Industries
Reading a product label is not just for the grocery store aisle when you’re checking out the calories and ingredient list on a box of cereal. Reading a product label is also essential to selecting the best products for your business – and is particularly true when searching for the right surface sanitizing and disinfecting solutions. Many products have precautionary statements like “Hazards to Humans and Domestic Animals” or take as long as 10 minutes to kill the viruses you’re most concerned about. Surface disinfection is a key part of targeted cleaning in any establishment, so choosing the best product for the job is key. That is where reading the label comes in.
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Healthy Hands for a Healthy School Year
7/27/2021
By David Miller
Marketing Director – Omnichannel, GOJO Industries
As we enter the back half of summer break, many families and teachers are looking ahead to the fall and the approach of another school year. Planning often begins with back-to-school shopping to stock up on items they’ll need to complete the school year successfully. This year, many shopping lists will include items to help prioritize healthy habits in the classroom – particularly since public health experts are concerned there may be an increased number of germs circulating this winter. With many children returning to in-person learning for the first time in a long time, help ease their adjustment and set them up for successful school year by reinforcing healthy habits, like hand hygiene.
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Aren’t All Hand Soaps Essentially the Same?
7/20/2021
By Dawn Yeomans, Ph.D.
Research Principal, GOJO Industries
The short answer is a confusing “yes and no.” We’ve all had the experience of using a soap that didn’t lather properly or that left our skin feeling tight and dry. This is because the soap formulation itself – as well as the practice related to dispensing the formulation – matter, for how the soap performs and feels during use, its germ and dirt removal efficacy, and how the soap leaves skin feeling after use. Here’s a little science to help understand why something as simple as soap can perform so differently and what to look out for when choosing a hand soap for your school district or college campus.
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