Use: Cleaning - Surface
This alternatives assessment service helps craft beverage manufacturers adopt safer cleaning and sanitizing strategies
This alternatives assessment service helps craft beverage manufacturers adopt safer cleaning and sanitizing strategies
TURI offers grants to help Massachusetts businesses adopt safer alternatives to toxic chemicals.
Our findings of feasible alternatives to methylene chloride and other chemicals of high concern used in coating removal products.
Inner-Tite Corporation replaced its existing parts degreasing equipment with two entirely enclosed
Forenta® degreasing units. The new degreasing equipment has reduced air emissions of
trichloroethylene (TCE) by 97% and will save the company over $12,000 annually in avoided chemical
purchases.
Research over the past ten years has identified
significant health and environmental issues related to
some of the active ingredients used in disinfecting
products.
Soiled surfaces provide conditions for pathogenic microbes (germs), including viruses, bacteria
and fungi, to survive outside of the body. They can serve as “reservoirs” for germs that can
transmit them to people who touch them (indirect contact transmission).
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).