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3M’s medical solutions division has been awarded US $34.2 million from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity. According to a press release, the funding will be used to develop a range of new solutions for infection prevention, as well as wound management and healing. 3M will collaborate with the University of Minnesota Medical School, Read more
Taking place this year December 3–9, National Handwashing Awareness Week promotes healthy hand hygiene habits in the United States. In recognition of the week, SC Johnson Professional® has shared the following hand hygiene tips: Understand what proper hand washing entails. The correct handwashing procedure involves a thorough process: Wet hands, Read more
Dr. Fisk Johnson, CEO and chairman of SC Johnson, parent company of SC Johnson Professional, was named the recipient of the United Nations (UN) Foundation’s Leadership for a Better World Award. The honorific is part of the UN Foundation’s annual We the People awards program, which recognizes organizational leaders whose achievements have Read more
SC Johnson, parent company of SC Johnson Professional, has been recognized as a leader in the household and personal care industry in tackling the plastic waste crisis in the fifth-annual Global Commitment Progress Report. Produced by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the UN Environment Programme, the annual report highlights a set of Read more
Spartan Chemical Co. Inc. has promoted David Groth to director of laundry and warewash. Groth has more than three decades of experience in the textile care and chemical industry. He has been with Spartan since 2021, when he joined the company as an industrial laundry specialist. In his new position, Read more
Spartan Chemical Co. Inc. recently expanded its staff with the addition of three regional managers. Art Hernandez has been appointed regional manager for Spartan’s the Northern California region. Prior to joining Spartan, Hernandez worked for five years as territory manager for Applied Adhesives in Sacramento, California, where he focused on the Read more
California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has again proposed a rule to upend short-form warnings—“safe harbor” language that currently does not need to identify a chemical being warned about, only the endpoint—under Proposition 65. Proposition 65 requires businesses to provide warnings to Californians about significant exposures to chemicals Read more
The Clorox Co., parent company of CloroxPro, has been named a recipient of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2023 Green Chemistry Challenge Award. The agency’s annual awards program honors companies or institutions that have developed a new green chemistry process or product that helps protect human health and the environment. Clorox Read more
CloroxPro recently expanded its online learning platform with the addition of the CloroxPro HealthyClean® Trained Manager Certificate Course. CloroxPro launched its on-demand digital educational system last year with the HealthyClean Trained Specialist Course for frontline cleaners. The new training course is accredited by the American National Standards Institute National Accreditation Board Read more
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released updated ventilation guidelines for mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in indoor facilities. The revised CDC guidance was developed in conjunction with a new standard from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHARE) and provides detailed Read more