Use: Disinfection and Sanitization
This alternatives assessment service helps craft beverage manufacturers adopt safer cleaning and sanitizing strategies
Use: Disinfection and Sanitization
Use: Disinfection and Sanitization
Merrimack Ales received two small business grants from the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI)
during fiscal years 2016 and 2017 to test alternative technologies and processes for cleaning and
sanitizing their brewing and fermenting vats.
Use: Disinfection and Sanitization
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
Use: Disinfection and Sanitization
Use: Disinfection and Sanitization
Research over the past ten years has identified
significant health and environmental issues related to
some of the active ingredients used in disinfecting
products.
Use: Disinfection and Sanitization
Use: Disinfection and Sanitization
Products used to kill or reduce microbes are actually antimicrobial “pesticides”.
Antimicrobial pesticides are categorized based on the type of microbial “pest”
they are formulated and tested to be effective against1
.
Use: Disinfection and Sanitization
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).
Use: Disinfection and Sanitization
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).
