CFP 2025 Submissions on Handwashing Issue to Consider: Hand hygiene is a critical step in fighting disease, especially foodborne pathogens. In food handling settings, washing hands with soap and water is the required primary method for performing hand hygiene. In other settings, such as healthcare, alcohol-based hand sanitizers (aka hand antiseptics) are the preferred method […]
Friction-Aided Hand Antiseptic for Temporary Events without Plumbed Handsinks
CFP 2025 Submissions on Handwashing Issue to Consider: Alcohol-based hand antiseptics (ABHA), also known as hand sanitizers or in healthcare as hand rubs, can be used quite effectively1-3, especially by doubling a normal dose and adding the friction of a paper towel (PT) finish4-7. Together, this ABHA x 2 + PT provides a simple, convenient […]
Additional Hand Hygiene Definitions to Enable Improved Employee Hand Cleansing and Management / Monitoring
CFP 2025 Submissions on Handwashing Issue to Consider: For over 20 years the Conference for Food Protection, through recommendations to FDA Food Code has attempted to improve food handlers handwashing to advance food safety and reduce infection. Yet published hand hygiene results summarized and presented at an AFDO (Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) […]
International Clean Hands Week
September 14-20, 2025 Please join this annual campaign, sponsored by the CDC-facilitated Clean Hands Coalition. Raise awareness of the dangers of poor hand hygiene. Check out a variety of ideas to improve the away-from-home wellness factor in everyone’s life. Clean hands are the cure to the spread of colds, the flu, and those illnesses acquired […]
No Soap? No Water? No Worry! New Handwashing Evidence
Effective handwashing needs are many and growing where temporary food service venues and emergency situations face the need for handwashing without water. Source: Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO)
New Handwashing Evidence: No Soap, No Water, No Worry!
The FDA’s Conference For Food Protection will meet in Denver, March 24-28, 2025 to evaluate proposed updates to its Model Food Code. Delegates will consider adding two additional handwash methods derived from this research. Research confirms alcohol hand sanitizer in medium to light soil is superior to soap water handwashes. Column A illustrates the effectiveness […]
Introducing SaniOnce: The Innovative Sibling of SaniTwice
Handwashing For Life® proudly created the SaniTwice® protocol in response to a critical request from the military, addressing the urgent need for hand hygiene among a newly recruited Iraqi police force training in the water-scarce desert. SaniTwice gained immediate acceptance, even prior to clinical validation. Two independent peer-reviewed, published studies: first in a controlled laboratory […]
International Clean Hands Week
October 16-19, 2024 Please join this annual campaign, sponsored by the CDC-facilitated Clean Hands Coalition. Raise awareness of the dangers of poor hand hygiene. Check out a variety of ideas to improve the away-from-home wellness factor in everyone’s life. Clean hands are the cure to the spread of colds, the flu, and those illnesses acquired […]
Norovirus-Centered Clean Hand Definition
Research to help Operators determine their Noro-E.coli-hep A risk factor. This definition of a Clean Hand is an articulation in search of the science: A Clean Hand in the foodservice and food processing industries is one that is unlikely to transfer pathogens from the hand to food, surfaces or directly to people. Handwashing For Life® […]
Food Safety Research Reveals New Handwashing Heroes
Common ground drives budget sharing to defeat Norovirus Too many times needed food safety research is buried by either a smothering budget or by an agenda to promote an individual position. In April of 2023, Handwashing For Life® joined Ohio State’s Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention in submitting issue I-016 to the FDA’s […]
