C4: Critical Cleaning for Contamination Control
C4/Critical Cleaning for Contamination Control
Confusion About Killing Bacteria
Cleaning is not sterilization or disinfection. These activities or processes produce different outcomes.
Exposure Limits: Should We Take the Bypass?
Exposure limits are crowd-sourced, sometimes based on incomplete data, and often not developed within public view.
Confusion of the Lambs
How did you learn about cleaning technology? And how do you learn now?
Sacrificial Soils in Critical Cleaning
Sacrificial soils are materials added to a soiled surface to help that surface become less soiled.
All the News That’s Fit to Print...
This column reports on three unrelated outcomes about which you need know to manage critical cleaning work, and points out their significance.
In Development of Technology, Patience is Key
Most of my industrial career with a large chemical company was spent doing development work.
GOOGLE(TM) is Not Enough
Google can find targeted content in articles, books, and other material. I use it every day to answer specific questions, and to find specific references and information.
Do Vacuum Pumps Actually Pump Vacuum?
Current industry activity is strong in production of enclosed cleaning machines which allow cleaning solvents to be used under vacuum conditions.
Hazards of Aerosol-Dispensed Cleaning Agents: Flammability
Many doing critical cleaning have used aerosol-dispensed cleaning agents to reach certain portions of valuable surfaces so that the cleaning agent could do its “magic” and be removed with soil by a worker using a fabric wiper.
Respiratory Hazards of Aerosol-Dispensed Cleaning Agents
Many doing critical cleaning have used aerosol dispensed cleaning agents to reach certain portions of valuable surfaces so that the cleaning agent could do its “magic” and be removed with soil by a person using a fabric wiper.