Thursday, November 1, 2018
M9.2: Six Classes of Chemicals
After watching the videos on the six classes of chemicals, I decided to further look into antimicrobials. As noted in the video, antimicrobials are in thousands of products, but are often doing more harm that good. The use of these chemicals, such as triclosan and triclocarbon were commonly used despite knowing the risks. I think one important thing which was noted in the video is that there has been no proven added benefits of using soaps or other products with triclosan or triclocarbon, over using just regular soap and water.
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I think that is also really intriguing. If there is no proven benefit, why do we do it? I wonder if there is a way to make something as easy as Purrell or foaming sanitizers that actually just uses soap instead of antimicrobials.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is interesting that there are no proven added benefits of soaps and products having triclosan and triclocarbon and I believe the public would not know or care what those are like other ingredients found in these products. However, we do need to keep clean and not spread germs.
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