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infant botulism
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/recall/byheart-baby-formula-recalled-state-outbreak-infant-botulism-rcna242783 Recall of baby formula reportedly contaminated with botulinum toxin. Honey has been another source of the issue. . https://www.nature.com/articles/7211651
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What is wrong with people immune system? They say 1 in 4 will get cancer in their life?
one factor is the ageing population https://www.cancercenter.com/community/blog/2023/06/cancer-risk-by-age
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Is it ethically bad to use a large amount of (recycled) plastic on your land?
He's killing no descendants. Please - as scientists let's proceed by the risk assessment process not sensational hyperbole.
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Is it ethically bad to use a large amount of (recycled) plastic on your land?
Use what you want. - there's nothing wrong with plastic Live by your own ethics - not online moralists
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Contamination
Contamination is not typically cause for household product recall as the product pH, Aw, salt, surfactant levels etc. limit contamination to low risk bugs. Manuf hygiene is only roughly controlled due to volumes and preservatives are weak to control sensitization. Product may/prob not be held for micro results as volumes can exceed reasonable warehouse control. Problems are uncommon hopefully low-risk and limited so addressed by unannounced market recovery from retail to minimize customer of experience odor, appearance and performance issues. None want monetary impact/bad press/regulatory exposure of public recall so risk assessment is established in advance to avoid the passion of the moment. Not to dwell too much but it is passionate - manufacturing has stopped, need to find space for product on hold and recovered, competitors take store shelves, organizations blame one another, etc. Woolite is made by Reckitt (of Lysol, Dettol) whose health and reputational risk assessments are well developed. I'm not familair with their assessment but have known their folks and certainly respect their decision.
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Contamination
Woolite is used for hand washing of "delicate" garments. cutaneous infection from detergent - but it is pseudomallei again https://www.academia.edu/download/41703997/360.pdf
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Contamination
Sure - as noted, the bug is in soil as well. The ;point was the dynamic of the microbe's pathogenicity and the level of immunocompromise of the person(s) exposed. another example - different bug, diff route of exposure and diff vulnerability of the exposed https://academic.oup.com/jid/article-abstract/158/3/655/2190564 consider that ~20% and prob more of the population is in some state of immunocompromise https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0168160596009968 Woolite prob is not an unique phenomenon - just one that involved a bug/bug type of some degree of risk due to it's +/- neutral pH. Other more mainstream concentrated liquid laundry detergents pH ~9 suffer contamination by alkalophilic xerophilic bacteria. The latter does not appear in the literature as such. Here's an example from the soap industry https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ics.12401
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Contamination
Different pseudomonad and aerosol exposure https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/aromatherapy-spray-killed-two-people-multistate-outbreak-also-killed-p-rcna62100
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Contamination
Ingredients list benzo and methyl isothiazolinones. Maybe left out but more likely contaminated water system
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Contamination
fyi https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Woolite-Delicates-Detergent-Recalled-by-Reckitt-Due-to-Risk-of-Exposure-to-Bacteria-Sold-Exclusively-on-Amazon-com Woolite contamination. Some may household cleaner contamination from a few years back - https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/a42805515/fabuloso-cleaner-recall-full-list/
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Can the general public not be trained to administer flu shots to each other?
Please note temperature control important to flu vaccine stability. https://www.naccho.org/uploads/downloadable-resources/storage-of-influenza-vaccine-MDH-3.pdf
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Can the general public not be trained to administer flu shots to each other?
youtube? I'll add that vaccines have storage and handling requirements that certainly wont served well by the general public.
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Germs on laptop keyboard
Please read the citations offered. The article reported the flora recovered from keyboards. Potential pathogens cultured from more than 50% of the computers included coagulase-negative staphylococci (100% of keyboards), diphtheroids (80%), Micrococcus species (72%), and Bacillus species (64%). Other pathogens cultured included ORSA (4% of keyboards), OSSA (4%), vancomycin-susceptible Enterococcus species (12%), and nonfermentative gram-negative rods (36%)
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Germs on laptop keyboard
Wish folks would offer some citations for their assertions https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/abs/bacterial-contamination-of-keyboards-efficacy-and-functional-impact-of-disinfectants/E9D4608D350EDD23A16392434874445B
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Can I conclude the mode of action of an antimicrobial compounds in the results?
Above tells you nothing of mode of action - merely its expression. Curious - is this in defense of an advanced degree?