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October 2025
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Inside the October Issue |
Reduce Risk of Illness Clean, Sanitize and Disinfect High-Touch Surfaces
Protecting guests and occupants’ health and safety is important for all building and restaurant managers. Cleaning is one of the most effective ways to lower the risk of illness by removing germs and contaminants from high-touch surfaces, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which cautions, cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting are all different.
Cleaning removes germs, dirt, and other impurities from surfaces, but doesn’t necessarily kill germs and other contaminants. However, by removing germs and contaminants, it lowers their numbers and the risk of spreading infection.
Cleaning products remove 97 percent of germs and soils from the surface when used according to manufacturer’s directions. To further reduce the number of germs that were left behind from cleaning, a sanitizer or disinfectant must be applied to the surface.
Sanitizing lowers the number of germs on surfaces or objects to a safe level (as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)) by removing them. When you sanitize, you are reducing the number of bacteria present by 99.9 percent. As a result, this process may not kill all germs.
Sanitizing is better than cleaning alone, but disinfectants are more effective.
Disinfecting kills 100 percent of germs on surfaces or objects that are listed on the manufacturer’s label when used properly, but will only be effective if a surface is cleaned first. Full story »
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