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All the rooms were painted alike, in salmon-colour with a high dado of maroon; and there was in them an odour of disinfectants, mingling as the afternoon wore on with the crude stench of humanity.

There was a faint and not unpleasant smell of disinfectants. Helen rose and gave up her chair to him in silence.

"I've covered her with oil-cloth--best American oilcloth, and put the sheet over that, and four jars of disinfectant, on account of the smell--as they did at Moscow--you remember?

To you, my dear Summerlee, belongs the honour--posthumous, alas, but none the less unique--of having given a name to the universal destroyer, the Great Gardener's disinfectant. The symptoms of daturon, then, may be taken to be such as I indicate.

DISINFECTANTS used to control the spread of hospital superbugs could be making the problem even worse.

HOSPITAL and laboratory disinfectants that could have been banned within the European Union (EU) from May 15, 2010, are now likely to have a stay of execution of another four years.

* Fact Sheet: Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule

Bacteria embedded in biofilms have increased resistance to disinfectants.

Media specialist Lab M provides an extensive range of neutralising media for use in both monitoring the effectiveness of a CIP sanitisation programme, and determining the bactericidal activity of disinfectants.

Among industrial markets, growth will be led by food and beverage processing, where growth in food processing activity coupled with heightened awareness of the health risks and potential liability associated with foodborne pathogens will spur greater use of disinfectants. Gains will also be strong in the coatings market, due in large part to growth in coatings production and the ongoing shift to waterborne formulations in the industrial market.

In the food and beverage industry, the most common workplace for minors, disinfectants are used to keep preparation surfaces and equipment clean and germ-free.

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis appeared in spite of disinfection of the metalworking fluid with morpholine, formaldehyde, or quaternary ammonium-based disinfectants (1,6,12,13), and mycobacteria were recovered from the metal working fluid (6,14,15).