Hello Cleaning World: Is it Clean?

While infection prevention is a top-of-mind initiative for most businesses, organizations and public facilities, there is still an unmet need for ensuring public health and safety through improved cleaning protocols. Some operate under the misconception that “if it looks clean, it is clean.” But just because a surface looks clean doesn’t mean it is. As few as 18 invisible viral particles can make you sick. To put things in perspective, about 18,000 viral particles can comfortably sit on the tip of a pencil. Knowing that, it can be hard to fathom the sheer number of viral particles that may be resting under the lip of a counter or even on an airplane seat. That’s why it’s crucial to ensure that your disinfecting method can handle the task of truly “cleaning.”

A pen-tip amount of virus particles is enough to infect more than 1,000 people.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

8% of the population or over 26.4 million people get the flu each season.

Jerome I Tokars, Sonja J Olsen, Carrie Reed, Seasonal Incidence of Symptomatic Influenza in the United States, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 66, Issue 10, 15 May 2018, Pages 1511–1518, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix1060

In 2020, there were over 20 million cases of COVID-19 in the United States.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID Data Tracker