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Eagle Protect

The Eagle Standard What makes Eagle Protect unique? The Eagle Standard ensures our products meet consistent high-quality specifications and are manufactured sustainably and ethically via our fully transparent supply chain. Creating a Better Standard The Eagle Standard safeguards our partner’s businesses by protecting their staff, products or patients and brand reputation. Eagle sets the industry standard with our 5 points …
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Comparative Efficacy of Alcohol-Based Hand Rub vs. Soap and Water by an In Vivo Cross-Contamination Test Method

Comparative Efficacy of Alcohol-Based Hand Rub vs. Soap and Water by an In Vivo Cross-Contamination Test Method
Research poster presented at IDweek 2024. Introduction: The literature on hand washing, while extensive, often contains conflicting data, and key variables are only superficially studied or not studied at all. This leads to hand hygiene recommendations/decisions often being made on assumptions without scientific support. Jensen et. al. studied many handwash variables and found for bland soap no significant effects on …

The Hands On Leadership Challenge

A handwashing support system for the person-in-charge Risk-Based Handwashing: Self-Motivated Compliance & Tracking Handwashing For Life believes that food workers’ self-motivated handwashing instincts can be harnessed and nurtured by providing them with regular feedback on their team compliance. Background: Food workers have a strong need for frequent handwashing but little time or motivation. They are asked and trained to wash …
The Hands On Leadership Challenge

Reporting Raises Washing, Lowers Illness

This simple graph is the result of enormous data collection, only possible in healthcare because they regularly report their illness/infections and a quasi-frequency standard is possible by comparing staff handwashes and patient room entry and exit.
The lack of handwashing compliance data starves the normal corporate decision-making machinery and perpetuates unnecessary levels of operator risk. Without numbers, handwashing remains one of the few risk factors void of an operationally monitored standard. Operators know their handwashing is well below what they seek but without the numbers their case for change is chocked. Foodservice commonly questions the value …

Research Projects

We are doing the research that is not getting done! Foodservice operators, especially the leaders, are very busy people, gathered around their already proven mission. Continued growth now depends on a flow of innovation, fueled by new perspectives, data, and targeted research studies. Leaders already have a team of open-minded believers, creating a fertile environment to pursue creative thinking. They …
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