Improper Removal of Hospital Gloves and Gowns Spreads Contamination
A recent study in JAMA found that hospital workers were very poor at preventing contamination spreading from soiled gowns. In this study a fluorescent dye was used to simulate a blood borne pathogen...
View ArticleA New Occupational Exposure Limit for OPA?
The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), well known for its threshold limit values (TLVs) for a wide range of chemicals, just released its list of chemicals under study....
View ArticleIndustry News – FDA Safety Communication: Supplemental Measures to Enhance...
News from the world of endoscopy has not been good recently, with patients dying and being sickened after catching antibiotic resistant infections from inadequately cleaned endoscopes, especially...
View ArticleCleaning Hospital Room Surfaces to Prevent Health Care–Associated Infections
Jennifer H. Han, Nancy Sullivan, Brian F. Leas, David A. Pegues, Janice L. Kaczmarek, and Craig A. Umscheid have just published an article in Annals of Internal Medicine reviewing the effectiveness...
View ArticleOSHA Extends Comment Period for Chemical Management and PEL
The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has less than 500 permissible exposure limits (PELs) for chemicals commonly used in the workplace and over 90% of them have not been updated...
View ArticleThe On-going Saga of the EU-US Chicken Wars
The United States is the world’s second largest exporter of chicken, and in 2013 exported nearly 20 percent of its total volume of production, with an export value of more than $4.7 billion. Everyone...
View ArticleFDA Warns Endoscope Manufacturers
On August 12th, the FDA sent warning letters to the main manufacturers of the endoscopes that were responsible for the transmission of antibiotic resistant bacteria to patients cause serious illness,...
View ArticleAseptic and Antimicrobial Processing and Packaging Association Forms to Lead...
The Aseptic and Antimicrobial Processing and Packaging Association (AAPPA) is a new organization that brings together food and beverage producers, processors, packaging suppliers, equipment...
View ArticleAAMI Offers New Training Video: Personnel Safety in Sterile Processing...
A new 60 minute training video on personnel safety in sterile processing departments, whose script was written by ChemDAQ’s Richard Warburton, is now available from AAMI . It includes practical...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Name?
While attending the 2015 Conference of the Central Services Association of Ontario (CSAO) as a speaker, I learnt that of a movement to change the name of central service or sterile processing...
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