Industry/Sector: Disinfection and Sanitization
TURI provides grants to academic researchers to support efforts to find and develop safer alternatives to harmful chemicals.
TURI provides grants to academic researchers to support efforts to find and develop safer alternatives to harmful chemicals.
TURI offers grants to help Massachusetts businesses adopt safer alternatives to toxic chemicals.
As Massachusetts businesses reopen, they face the need to clean and disinfect to prevent COVID-19
transmission. Certain cleaning and disinfecting chemicals have been linked to acute and chronic illnesses,
including asthma. However, safer alternatives are available
Research over the past ten years has identified
significant health and environmental issues related to
some of the active ingredients used in disinfecting
products.
EPA’s Antimicrobial Division maintains lists of disinfectants selected for use on common
pathogens (microbes that cause disease, AKA germs). They do this because disinfectants are
formulated and tested to be effective against specific germ(s).