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A recent study looked at four sanitizers that claim to be effective at inactivating human norovirus – and found that three of them had very little effect on the pathogen. The finding could inform efforts to reduce the risk of spreading human norovirus, which infects around 20 million people in the U.S. each year, and costs the economy more than $160 million annually.
The study, “The Efficacy of Commercial Surface Sanitizers against Norovirus on Formica Surfaces with and without Inclusion of a Wiping Step,” is published open access in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
To learn more about the work, including why the researchers invented a table-wiping robot, we talked with study co-author Lee-Ann Jaykus
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