The Flu & Food Safety

Did you know?

An invisible sneeze droplet can contain 200 MILLION droplets of germs! 

* Think about this 200 MILLION droplets of germs x ("our sanitizer kills 99.9% of germs!") .01% = YUK!!!!

Statistics say that Norovirus, the number one foodbourn illness in the USA, can remain alive and well for 12 hours on hard surfaces and up to 12 days on contaminated fabrics such as carpets and upholstery.  In still water, it can survive for months, maybe even years.    It’s resistant to household disinfectants and even alcohol based hand gels.  This illness wreaks havoc in hospitals, schools, prisons, nursing homes, day cares, cruise ships, and hotels.

It takes fewer than 20 particles to infect someone with Norovirus.  This means that each droplet of vomit or gram of feces – yes feces, or if you prefer – poo – from an infected person can contain enough infection to contaminate more than 100,000 individuals.  Norovirus like the flu is running rampant this year and unlike the flu…IT IS A FOOD SAFETY ISSUE.

To learn more about the flu and food safety join us today 1.24.2013 @ 3:00 EST at Keeping It Kleen where I will be hosting a twitter party.   Join the chat @ http://tweetchat.com/room/kleenchat  we would love to chat with you there!  It’s sure to be tons of fun!