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 […]
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: Materials: Methods: ASTM E2784 was followed with a detailed protocol and thoughtfully defined key controls: Conclusions & Recommendations: Future Research Needs: Execute the same method with other interventions for comparison: Acknowledgments: Exactly what you had in the last poster + one more point: References:
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 […]
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 […]
Reporting Raises Washing, Lowers Illness
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. […]
Research & Innovation
This We Believe Every diner in our restaurants has a unique fingerprint. They differ in many other ways as well, including age and health. The people who know how best to protect them are those closest to them – […]
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 […]
Comparing Pathogen Transfer Rates: Handwash vs. Hand Sanitizer
Well before COVID, the FDA raised the suggested handwash time from “10-15” to 20 seconds. During COVID, the CDC reinforced the 20-second variant but without the science to support the change. Now that the COVID alarm stage is over, can restaurants go back to 15 seconds? There is also a lack of clarity on the […]
