Home Cleaning - Re: True that washing machines in many parts of the world don't heat

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Re: True that washing machines in many parts of the world don't heat

Charles Self

2008-02-11, 9:25 am

On 11 Feb., 02:10, "Mrs Bonk" <a...@nospamcutey.com> wrote:
> I would need to see evidence to believe this "researcher"

http://www.br-online.de/b5aktuell/i...chermagazin.xml
You can hear the guy in the podcast. He's Armin Schuster of the
Institut fuer Krankenhaushygiene (Institute for Hospital Hygiene) /
Freiburg.
Sorry, it's in German.
I think that you make the interesting point that a cold machine wash
might not kill off superbugs such as MRSA, which is why hospitals,
care homes etc. might want to forbear from cold-washing their
laundry. I on the other hand wanted to point out that cold washes
appear to be surprisingly (if not totally) effective even against
serious "bugs".

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