• Healthcare laundry: Epidemiology and microbiology issues

      Date: October 16th, 2014

      Time: 10:30 am PST

      Speaker: Dr. Lynne Sehulster, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

      Objectives:

      • Gain a better understanding of laundry processes and the antimicrobial potency of those processes
      • Understand how inadvertent environmental contamination of clean textiles can occur and the steps needed to prevent this
      • Be able to determine if antimicrobial treatments of textiles is needed
      • Be aware of issues associated with microbial testing of clean textiles

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