Woolite Contamination Recalls 2023 and 2025

  • Thread starter Thread starter Cepacia
  • Start date Start date
AI Thread Summary
Woolite Delicates Detergent has been recalled due to contamination that poses a risk of bacterial exposure. This incident highlights the potential for household cleaners to harbor harmful bacteria, contrasting with the common perception that such products are inherently safe, similar to bleach used in epidemic situations. The discussion also touches on the evolution of household soaps, noting that modern detergents are formulated to be less aggressive, maintaining a near-neutral pH to avoid skin and fabric damage. Additionally, there are warnings about the dangers of mixing cleaning agents, as illustrated by a personal anecdote involving a dangerous reaction between Clorox and ammonia, emphasizing the importance of safe cleaning practices.
Biology news on Phys.org
It never occurred to me that a household cleaner could harbor bacterial infections. I suppose I've always assumed they were like bleach, which is used in all epidemic outbreaks.
 
jedishrfu said:
It never occurred to me that a household cleaner could harbor bacterial infections.
Old times lye soap had ph around 9-11, as I recall. But these days most of the everyday detergents are kept around neutral, with extreme care that it won't be aggressive enough to harm skin or clothes. Very different.
 
Not directly related to this topic:
Chemistry is Fun, NOT!

I had a coworker, an electrical engineer, who once told us how he used Clorox and ammonia to clean a toilet, thinking they would work much better together. His wife, a nurse, could have killed him when she found out.

Mixing the two resulted in a puff of chlorine gas, but he survived both attempts on his life and remained married.

and now, back to our regularly scheduled thread.
 
Reply
  • Haha
  • Wow
Likes pinball1970 and berkeman
gack! real bad emissions - prob chloramines rather than Cl gas
 

Thread 'Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)'

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/body-dysmorphia/ Most people have some mild apprehension about their body, such as one thinks their nose is too big, hair too straight or curvy. At the extreme, cases such as this, are difficult to completely understand. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/other/why-would-someone-want-to-amputate-healthy-limbs/ar-AA1MrQK7?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=68ce4014b1fe4953b0b4bd22ef471ab9&ei=78 they feel like they're an amputee in the body of a regular person "For...
View full post »
Thread 'Did they discover another descendant of homo erectus?'

Thread 'Did they discover another descendant of homo erectus?'

The study provides critical new insights into the African Humid Period, a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara desert was a green savanna, rich in water bodies that facilitated human habitation and the spread of pastoralism. Later aridification turned this region into the world's largest desert. Due to the extreme aridity of the region today, DNA preservation is poor, making this pioneering ancient DNA study all the more significant. Genomic analyses reveal that the...
View full post »

Thread 'Warning of new opiod drug (nitazene) on the streets: Question re strength...'

Whenever these opiods are mentioned they usually mention that e.g. fentanyl is "50 times stronger than heroin" and "100 times stronger than morphine". Now it's nitazene which the public is told is everything from "much stronger than heroin" and "200 times stronger than fentany"! Do these numbers make sense at all? How do they arrive at them? Kill thousands of mice? En passant: nitazene have already been found in both Oxycontin pills and in street "heroin" here, so Naloxone is more...
View full post »

Hot Threads

Recent Insights

Back
Top