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  • From: Una Smith <una.smith@att.net>
  • To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] biohazard clean-up
  • Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:52:08 -0500

Pennbo's wrote:
>What is the most effective/least destructive way to clean up biohazard
>spills (specifically blood) on grass playing fields and uniforms?

Re the playing fields, is the cleanup urgent? Or can it wait?
Sunlight is an excellent antiseptic. Ditto freeze/thaw cycles.
And wild free-living bacteria in the soil will also gobble up
pathogens.

By the way, the UV light emitted by common flourescent light
bulbs is enough to chop up DNA so badly that molecular biology
labs must cover the fixtures with UV-absorbing shields.

Una Smith
New Mexico




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