Avoiding the Hyper-speed “Handwash” The hands of Healthcare and Foodservice workers are contaminated frequently, calling for high-frequency handwashing. This is the wheelhouse of ABHS, Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizer. In most scenarios, it provides a highly effective alternative to time-consuming soap/water washes. In Foodservice, thanks to the onslaught of Coronavirus, ABHS is increasingly made available to […]
Proper COVID-19 Hand Sanitizing
No Water, No Wash, No Problem The use (and misuse) of hand sanitizers has exploded with the onslaught of Coronavirus. Its convenience factor plus CDC, NIH, and FDA support have driven its application to new heights in away-from-home settings. It may well prove to be the #1 intervention for this virus as two of the […]
Coronavirus: The Good News
Our Top 10 handwashing behaviors to beat COVID-19 … and next year’s mutationsEclipsed by Coronavirus media exaggerations and unforgivable politicalization, are the benefits of the public’s emerging better behaviors regarding hand cleanliness. The legacy of the Coronavirus outbreak in the USA is likely to be that it saved more lives than those lost to COVID-19. […]
Simple Flu Avoidance Technique
Raise hand sanitizer effectiveness when away from home SaniTwice™ is a simple hand-cleansing process to be taught to all children, pregnant women and other immune-compromised people for their lives away from home – without ready access to running water. SaniTwice potentiates their hand sanitizer to be “…equivalent or superior to handwashing with soap and water…” […]
Food Code Is Again Challenged By Science
Bureaucracy Buries Additions to Public Health A handwashing-without-water protocol has perplexed the FDA and its Conference for Food Protection (CFP) for 12 years, unable to resolve it at six successive biennial sessions. This recurring issue, Hand Cleanse-Sanitize Protocol Not Requiring Running Water (SaniTwice) was presented one more time at the 2018 CFP in Richmond Virginia, […]
Defeating Norovirus
Conquering this Enemy is Increasingly a Matter of Choice The more we learn about norovirus, the clearer the choices are in changing current behaviors. Foodservice operators know a lot about norovirus, especially in how to cope with an outbreak. What they are ignoring are the impacts of breakthroughs in the science of norovirus, DNA identification […]
A New Handwash to Celebrate World Hand Hygiene Day
The SaniTwice® Protocol is a Special Friend of Bedridden Patients First developed for the military, this two-step, cleanse-sanitize, protocol has found many applications in water-scarce situations beyond the deserts of the Middle East where it was first deployed. The latest “desert” is the bed of the bedridden patient – at home, in hospitals, rehab centers, and nursing […]
SaniTwice® Celebrating 10th Anniversary
The Celebration “Bookend” posters have been created to mark two important milestones. In 2006 a new hand hygiene protocol came onto the USA food safety scene from its original military use in the Middle-East, Jordan to be specific. http://handwashingforlife.com/handsonsystem/sanitwice In 2016, after garnering another research accolade, the innovation team will again look to the CFP […]
Support for SaniTwice Protocol
Fight Bac! webinar carries efficacy message to consumers Hand Hygiene: Efficacy Update and Educator Tools was the title of Fight Bac!’s webinar where academia checked in on the value of SaniTwice® in water-scarce situations commonly facing the away-from-home public. These include outdoor fairs, sporting events and petting zoos. Dr. Don Schaffner, a Distinguished Professor at […]
SaniTwice® – A Process Registration
Lesson learned from IAFP. Preparation for CFP. The SaniTwice® protocol is back in the news as the results of recent research in produce fields reaches farms, processors and restaurants. All markets are cleared and encouraged to use this process and its name without any royalties, much like the IAFP food safety icons are protected yet […]
