Industry/Sector: Janitorial Services
TURI provides grants to academic researchers to support efforts to find and develop safer alternatives to harmful chemicals.
Industry/Sector: Janitorial Services
TURI offers grants to help Massachusetts businesses adopt safer alternatives to toxic chemicals.
Industry/Sector: Janitorial Services
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
Industry/Sector: Janitorial Services
Asthma is a chronic disease that causes the airways
of the lungs to narrow, swell, and produce extra
mucus in response to stimuli
Industry/Sector: Janitorial Services
O Instituto de Redução de Uso de Tóxicos (TURI)
trabalha para ajudar empresas e comunidades
de Massachusetts a reduzir o uso de produtos
químicos tóxicos. Confira um breve resumo dos
links entre produtos químicos e asma e opções
para o uso de alternativas mais seguras.
Industry/Sector: Janitorial Services
If you are a facilities manager, custodian, administrator, school nurse, teacher or parent, you will learn how to create a safer clean environment in your school in this Aug. 14, 2020 webinar hosted by TURI.
Industry/Sector: Janitorial Services
Strong cleaning and disinfection (“C&D”) products such as those containing bleach and quaternary
ammonium compounds (“quats”) are increasingly used as microbicides for infection prevention and
sanitation of environmental surfaces in various settings; for example, in health care, childcare, schools,
food service and production facilities, dairies and breweries, and many other industrial facilities.
Industry/Sector: Janitorial Services
Cleaning products containing chlorine bleach and acid inadvertently used together on the floor of a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant recently killed the general manager. Within two weeks, chemical fumes from mixing cleaning chemicals at a Red Robin restaurant in Woburn sent three employees to the hospital.
