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PYoungbaer wrote:Personally, I still pre-clean my coveralls, then put them in the washer on hot. A few minutes into the cycle, when the machine has filled, I add the 10% bleach solution. The wash cycle is sufficiently long to disinfect. I set the machine for added rinse cycle. I dry in the drier or in the sun, depending on weather. The point here is that the use of bleach and heat are in combination. Nothing so far says this doesn't work. Nothing in Hazel's comment suggests not using hot water
Teresa wrote:Seem silly for me to do decon. Just in case? Case of what?
Crockett wrote:Teresa wrote:Seem silly for me to do decon. Just in case? Case of what?
In case you pick up one of the uncountable number of OTHER microbes that could be carried from one unique fragile environment to another?
Decontamination:
Not for WNS
For the CAVES
ek wrote:Consider: the NFPA procedure for decontaminating bloodborne pathogens is to soak with 1.5% concentration of chlorine bleach. The current FWS decontamination protocol--and this is of course subject to change and should be consulted directly at http://www.fws.gov/northeast/whitenosemessage.html#containment--says that if you choose to use bleach for decontamination, you should use a 10% concentration.
This is clearly higher, and I believe the reason is to kill fungus.
Teresa wrote:ek wrote:Consider: the NFPA procedure for decontaminating bloodborne pathogens is to soak with 1.5% concentration of chlorine bleach. The current FWS decontamination protocol--and this is of course subject to change and should be consulted directly at http://www.fws.gov/northeast/whitenosemessage.html#containment--says that if you choose to use bleach for decontamination, you should use a 10% concentration.
This is clearly higher, and I believe the reason is to kill fungus.
Then why is the level to decontaminate drinking water (which also may contain fungus/fungal spores) not 10%, too?
Teresa wrote:I seriously wonder if humans use extreme chemicals on WNS as a matter of course, will not a certain percentage of WNS develop chlorine resistance, and we'll be in a worse pickle than before? (Reference antibiotic resistant strep and staph varieties.)
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