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RE: Dont like bleach..

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Posted by: jhsulliv at Wed Jan 7 23:19:02 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jhsulliv ]  
   

If you have access to those studies I'd really like to see them. I really doubt vinegar even comes close to disinfecting the way bleach can, that's why bleach is used in hospitals so much because it works. Sure vinegar has SOME antimicrobial properties, but I believe it has a very narrow spectrum of action and only against certain fungi and bacteria.

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/531649_3
www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121390846/abstract

All of our cages at work are routinely cleaned with Roccal-D and if the animal us possibly contagious anything it touches is cleaned with bleach instead. The same was true when we had a doctor that treated reptiles. If there was any chance of something infectious then the cage, water bowl, etc were all cleaned with diluted bleach. Of course, as professionals, we had to take every step possible to prevent any nosocomial infections and encountered a high volume of sick animals, most people don't need that much disinfection power.

   

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