Month: May 2020

Cleaning Pandemic Opportunity

Most governments would mandate below to corporate offices/places of business which are opening-up

COVID-19 spreads through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes. A person can acquire the virus by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose or eyes.

A key way you can protect workers and others from the risk of exposure to COVID-19 is by implementing appropriate cleaning and disinfecting measures for your workplace.

A combination of cleaning and disinfection will be most effective in removing the COVID-19 virus.

Until a vaccine is produced deep cleaning will be a norm.

So what’s required to clean and disinfect these large corporate offices?

EPA’s website has a list of cleaning products that can be used and there are more than ~420 of them. On closer examination, one would find that Quaternary Ammonium is the most commonly used compound for general cleaning and disinfecting

Quaternary Ammonium Compound is widely used as disinfectant and antimicrobial agent which works by disrupting the cell membrane of bacteria. It is formulated by the alkylation of tertiary amines with a halocarbon. This compound is positively charged polyatomic ion having an alkyl or
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