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Research, Reports on Antibacterial Ingredients Is Distorted

Antibacterial products, ingredients have a long track record of safety, effectiveness, says ACI

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By: TOM BRANNA

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The cleaning industry is once again defending the safety of its products and ingredients. Analyses of research finding extremely low levels of an antibacterial ingredient in waterways are completely distorting facts about its safety and effectiveness, according to the American Cleaning Institute. Researchers in Minnesota published a paper that describes their finding of the ingredient triclosan in some of the state’s waterways. Unfortunately, according to ACI, the researchers’ publicity effor...

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