BC Advantage - 2018 Issue 3

Consider Going Green in Your Practice!

According to the Healthier Hospitals Initiative, Safer Chemicals, Accessed Oct 25, 2012, "more chemicals are used in health care than in any other sector."Additionally, recent data indicates that health care is the industry most frequently recognized among confirmed cases of work-related asthma, with the top causative agents being cleaning products and poor indoor air quality (from the Massachusetts Nurses Association. "Exposure to environmental cleaning chemicals in healthcare settings." Accessed Oct 26, 2012.)Many cleaning and disinfecting products contain volatile organic compounds such as alkylphenol ethoxylates, quarternary ammonium chlorides and ethylene glycol ethers, all of which cause a...

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