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Second Handwashing Study - Employees Don't Wash Either

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 30th, 1996

A second handwashing study has found that employee handwashing is at dangerously low levels in restaurants, grocery stores, hotels, institutional feeding and healthcare facilities.

In one of the most extensive handwashing studies ever conducted, the Compliance Control Center measured handwashing in restaurant, grocery stores, institutional food service and healthcare locations tracking performance over 1.3 million employee hours. The findings showed that people in these critical public service environments fail to wash despite extensive training on the importance of frequent handwashing in the prevention of cross-contamination and infection.

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Source: Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA (1996-09-30)

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