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Mop Bucket Liquid - Cleaning or Polluting?
"Bucket solutions become contaminated almost immediately during cleaning, and continued use of the solution transfers increasing numbers of microorganisms to each subsequent surface to be cleaned."
Source: Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) "Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities."
Staphylococcus aureus - Gram-positive, MRSA, coccus prokaryote (dividing); causes food poisoning, toxic shock syndrome, scarlet fever and skin and wound infections such as scalded skin syndrome, erysipelas, and impetigo.
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