Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Resistant Bacteria - Not just from oral antibiotics - home cleaning products too!

Vinegar - it's no just for salad dressing anymore!

While looking for info about diluted vinegar as a health aid (natural antibiotic) I discover this post about how home cleaners (disinfectants) are creating super bugs just like the antibiotics over prescribed for humans and added to livestock  feeds

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/vinegar-kills-bacteria-mold-germs.html#

Sometimes our step forward is really a step backward. I hope that rational thought wins out over greed and corporate marketing. Just use what your (great) granny used - vinegar!

Quote below from link above:


Vinegar is a mainstay of the old folk recipes for cleaning, and with good reason. The vim of the vinegar is that it kills bacteria, mold and germs.
Heinz company spokesperson Michael Mullen references numerous studies to show that a straight 5 percent solution of vinegar—the kind you can buy in the supermarket—kills 99 percent of bacteria, 82 percent of mold, and 80 percent of germs (viruses). He noted that Heinz can’t claim on their packaging that vinegar is a disinfectant since the company has not registered it as a pesticide with the Environmental Protection Agency.

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