A 'SAFE HANDS' HAND WASH PROGRAM - Sierra Hygiene

a "safe hands" hand wash program FOR RETAIL FOOD OPERATIONS History of Hand Washing In the 1840s, the significance of hand transfer of pathogenic bacteria was recognized when Ignaz Semmelweiss and Oliver Wendell Holmes asserted that physicians carried the agent of "childbed fever" (Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus) on their hands. ................
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