Invisible Threats on Healthcare Floors: Biofilm Prevention and Disinfection Strategies
Most people believe that if a floor looks clean, then it must be clean. In healthcare environments that assumption can be dangerously wrong. Beneath the shine of medical grade flooring there is a microscopic battle happening every single day. Germs are not sitting loosely on the surface waiting to be wiped away. They are building fortresses. These fortresses are called biofilms. They are sticky layers of microorganisms that anchor themselves to flooring materials like VCT and LVT. Once they...