Sanitation - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
Sanitation is promoting health through prevention of human contact with the hazards of waste through proper hygeine. It is important in hospitals to prevent the spread of hospital acquired infections (HAIs), in the community to prevent epidemics of water food and air-bourne diseases, and in laborataty/factory settings to ensure that medicines and devices are not contaminiated.
It is an issue for every person, healthy or ill, living in a developed country or a developing coutnry and requires a lot of collaboration between health care professionals, technology companies and communities.
News Articles
New ITW Professional Brands Food Service Wiper Enhances Restaurant Sanitation
ITW Professional Brands today launched the Quatguard® XL food service wiper, an Atlantic Mills brand disposable towel that maximizes sanitizer performance and improves res...
WASHINGTON, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The grisly evidence in Kermit Gosnell's "House of Horrors" criminal trial in Philadelphia should be a wake-up call to New Yorkers who could soo...
MET-Rx® Launches MET-Rx® Cares U.S. Charitable Giving Program
RONKONKOMA, N.Y., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MET-Rx®, a world leading provider of high-protein sports nutrition products, today officially launched its nationwide charitable giving pr...
Lenny Kravitz Films UNICEF PSA to End Preventable Child Deaths
NEW YORK, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lenny Kravitz—GRAMMY award-winning singer-songwriter, record producer and actor—has recorded a public service announcement urging people to...
NEW YORK, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- WaterAid, a leading international non-profit dedicated to making clean water and toilets accessible for the world's poorest people, announced today...
BIOLATAM, the new meeting point for biotechnology in Latin America will host first edition in Bogota
BIOLATAM, a summit announced this week in Chicago on account of the BIO International Convention, will be held in Bogota on December 9th and 10th of this year. Attendants will be inv...
A relief effort that built wells for a hospital and school for the blind in a remote southeast African village and a roundtable discussion on capturing urban storm water in the Sa...
AsepticSure Distribution Agreement Opens Door To Canadian Hospital Market
VICTORIAVILLE, Quebec, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Medizone International, Inc. (MZEI:OB) (MZEI:QB), the manufacturer of AsepticSure hospital disinfection systems, and Wood Wyant Canada, a sub...
Global health gains under threat
NGOs outline risk in briefing book for Congress WASHINGTON, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If the United States does not follow through on global health commitments, there co...
Just Love Coffee Roasters Announces Clean Water Partnership
Just Love Coffee Roasters announced today their partnership with WaterStep, a Louisville-based non-profit organization focused on fighting the worldwide water crisis through their...
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Companies
Water.org is a non-profit organization that has transformed hundreds of communities in Africa, South Asia, and Central America by providing access to safe water and sanitation ove...
Diversey, Inc. is committed to a cleaner, healthier future. Its products, systems and expertise make food, drink and facilities safer and more hygienic for consumers and for build...
JohnsonDiversey Inc. is committed to a cleaner, healthier future. Its products, systems and expertise make food, drink and facilities safer and more hygienic for consumers and for...
Founded in 1997, Wherever the Need seeks to alleviate poverty and ill health through the implementation of sanitation, water and livelihoods, and in a manner that empowers individ...
âChildren often suffer the most because of limited access to clean water and poor sanitation,â said Sarah Bouchie, vice president for program development of ChildFund...
lntralytix was founded in 1998 to address growing problems in the control and treatment of disease-causing bacteria. These problems are presently compounded by public and governmental reluctance to em...
Clinical Trials
Role of Zinc in Recurrent Acute Lower Respiratory Infections
Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) are the most frequent illnesses globally. Despite advances in the recognition and management ARIs, these account for over 20% of all child deaths global...
Zinc Supplementation in Cholera Patients
Cholera is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children and adult in developing countries. We will evaluate the effect of supplementation of zinc on reduction of dur...
PubMed Articles
The Cholera Outbreak in Haiti: Where and how did it begin?
In October 2010, cholera appeared in Haiti for the first time in nearly a century. The Secretary-General of the United Nations formed an Independent Panel to "investigate and seek to determine the sou...
OBJECTIVES: Human adenovirus (HAdV) type 14 had been infrequently associated with outbreaks of febrile respiratory illness (FRI) until the HAdV-14p1 emerged in 2006 and rapidly spread in the United St...
Speculative strategies for new antibacterials: all roads should not lead to Rome.
In concert with improvements in personal hygiene and public sanitation, the discovery and development of antibiotics during the latter half of the last century has reduced substantially the morbidity...
An improved tool for household faeces management in rural Bangladeshi communities.
OBJECTIVE: To explore child defecation and faeces management practices in rural Bangladesh with the aim to redesign and pilot a tool to facilitate removal and disposal of faeces. METHODS: We conducted...
This paper introduces the probabilistic evaluation framework, to enable transparent and objective decision-making in technology selection for sanitation solutions in low-income countries. The probabil...
Pit Latrines and Their Impacts on Groundwater Quality: A Systematic Review.
BACKGROUND: Pit latrines are one of the most common human excreta disposal systems in low-income countries, and their use is on the rise as countries aim to meet the sanitation-related target of the M...
Cities around the world are undergoing rapid urbanization, resulting in the growth of informal settlements or slums. These informal settlements lack basic services, including sanitation, and are assoc...
Registered dietitians (RDs) and dietetic technicians, registered (DTRs) can implement environmentally responsible practices in their workplace and personal lives. RDs and DTRs who conserve natural res...
The impoverished gut-a triple burden of diarrhoea, stunting and chronic disease.
More than one-fifth of the world's population live in extreme poverty, where a lack of safe water and adequate sanitation enables high rates of enteric infections and diarrhoea to continue unabated. A...
Introduction Military health care providers (HCPs) have an integral role during disaster, humanitarian, and civic assistance (DHCA) missions. Since 50% of patients seen in these settings are children,...
Videos
Sanitation and Hygiene for Food Service Employees from SafetyInstruction.com
Employees working in food and or beverage services must have adequate training in sanitation bacteria growth temperature controls personal hygiene food handl...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Sanitation
The development and establishment of environmental conditions favorable to the health of the public.
Ascaris Lumbricoides
A species of parasitic nematode that is the largest found in the human intestine. Its distribution is worldwide, but it is more prevalent in areas of poor sanitation. Human infection with A. lumbricoides is acquired by swallowing fully embryonated eggs from contaminated soil.
Roman World
A historical and cultural entity dispersed across a wide geographical area under the political domination and influence of ancient Rome, bringing to the conquered people the Roman civilization and culture from 753 B.C. to the beginning of the imperial rule under Augustus in 27 B.C. The early city built on seven hills grew to conquer Sicily, Sardinia, Carthage, Gaul, Spain, Britain, Greece, Asia Minor, etc., and extended ultimately from Mesopotamia to the Atlantic. Roman medicine was almost entirely in Greek hands, but Rome, with its superior water system, remains a model of sanitation and hygiene. (From A. Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed pp196-99; from F. H. Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, pp107-120)
Ascariasis
Infection by nematodes of the genus ASCARIS. Ingestion of infective eggs causes diarrhea and pneumonitis. Its distribution is more prevalent in areas of poor sanitation and where human feces are used for fertilizer.
Biodegradation, Environmental
Elimination of ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; PESTICIDES and other waste using living organisms, usually involving intervention of environmental or sanitation engineers.
