<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/babe91c4-31dc-4cb5-b75e-c69bbc612a5c/5359BBFC-1458-43EA-88FA-D874468A2134/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ecolab.com/PublicHealth/InfectionPrevention/ProgramsProductsServices.asp" href="http://www.ecolab.com/PublicHealth/InfectionPrevention/ProgramsProductsServices.asp" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ecolab.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ecolab.com/PublicHealth/InfectionPrevention/ProgramsProductsServices.asp"><DIV> Hand washing is one of the best and simplest ways to prevent infections from spreading. In fact, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) states that proper hand hygiene is the single most important thing we can do to keep from getting sick and spreading illnesses to others.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ecolab.com/PublicHealth/InfectionPrevention/ProgramsProductsServices.asp"><UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Annually, over 76 million people are affected by foodborne illnesses, and almost 50 percent are caused by the failure to wash hands, or washing them improperly</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Touching a doorknob, an elevator button or shaking hands can spread germs to others</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Poor personal hygiene by foodhandlers is the second leading cause of foodborne illness</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Some germs can live on dry surfaces for several hours and moist surfaces for up to three days</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Surfaces like kitchen and bathroom counters and toilet seats may be contaminated with bacteria even when they’re not visibly soiled</LI> </UL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5359BBFC-1458-43EA-88FA-D874468A2134/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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