"Nightjar" wrote in message
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On 30/08/2012 09:20, The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 30/08/2012 09:13, Nightjar wrote:
On 30/08/2012 08:26, The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 29/08/2012 22:08, dennis@home wrote:


"Adam Funk" wrote in message
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You don't get these serious technical problems where they provide
paper towels like civilized people...


NHS facilities provide paper hand towels.
They do so because they are trying to stop infection.
Hand driers spread infection.
High speed hand driers spread more.

That is a load of old bollox promoted by paper towel manufacturers.

Trials last year showed that washing your hands and drying them on
either paper towels or a continuous loop cotton towel reduced the
bacterial count on hands by 45%-60%. Warm air hand driers, on average,
increased the count by 225%.

Funded by the European Tissue Symposium....

That does not make the findings wrong, although it may affect the way in
which the tests are run. Each side will choose the methods that give them
the best chances of seeing the results that suit them. The hand dryer
manufacturers test in a laboratory, while the tests I refer to were real
life tests on units in use in toilets. The results are entirely consistent
with those I obtained from bioburden testing when I ran a clean room.

I don't really trust any claims made by someone who insists secondary
smoking is harmless.
Especially when secondary smoking makes me ill.