Monday, April 30, 2018

AACEM/ISSA Report on the Latest Flooring Trends

AACEM/ISSA Report on the Latest Flooring TrendsISSA and its subsidiary, the American Association of Cleaning Equipment Manufacturers (AACEM), have collaborated to release the latest AACEM/ISSA Quarterly Flooring Trends Report. The fifth... Read more

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ABM Awarded Custodial Contract With Texas College

ABM Awarded Custodial Contract With Texas CollegeABM has been awarded a custodial services contract with San Jacinto College in East Harris County, TX. The multi-year deal calls for ABM to provide cleaning and custodial services to the... Read more

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Ecolab Announces 665 Tons of In-Kind Product Donations

Ecolab Announces 665 Tons of In-Kind Product DonationsEcolab, Inc. donated more than 665 tons of in-kind products to global disaster relief efforts in 2017. Working with various international nonprofit organizations, Ecolab donated and distributed... Read more

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Friday, April 27, 2018

Grainger Donates to Educational Nonprofit

Grainger Donates to Educational NonprofitW.W. Grainger, Inc. recently donated US$50,000 to Folds of Honor. Folds of Honor is an Owasso, OK-based nonprofit that provides educational scholarships for U.S. military families. The charity... Read more

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Johnson Controls Opens New Research Center

Johnson Controls Opens New Research CenterJohnson Controls, Inc. has opened a new advanced development and engineering center in York County, PA. The US$15 million facility features a 250,000-square-foot testing lab and support facility... Read more

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Cintas Facility in Indiana Earns Safety Certification

Cintas Facility in Indiana Earns Safety CertificationCintas Corp.’s Angola, IN, uniform rental facility has received the Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star worksite designation from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration... Read more

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Weekly Product Showcase April 27, 2018

Weekly Product Showcase April 27, 2018Stay up to date on the industry's newest products and services from these ISSA members. One Productive Pad 3M’s Scotch-Brite™ Surface Preparation Pad Plus features enhanced benefits... Read more

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Thursday, April 26, 2018

TBM Service Group Achieves CIMS-GB Certification

TBM Service Group Achieves CIMS-GB CertificationTBM Service Group has successfully completed certification to the ISSA Cleaning Industry Management Standard (CIMS) and CIMS-Green Building (CIMS-GB) criteria. To earn CIMS... Read more

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SC Johnson Ranked Among U.K's Top Workplaces

SC Johnson, parent company of SC Johnson Professional, was named the best workplace in the United Kingdom for 2018 by the Great Place to Work® Institute. SC Johnson placed 52nd in... Read more

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ISSA Members Listed Among World's Most Reputable Companies

Multiple ISSA-member companies have been included in consulting firm The Reputation Institute's 2018 Global RepTrak® 100. The annual survey, conducted in conjunction... Read more

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DowDuPont Details Quarterly Dividend

DowDuPont, Inc. has announced a quarterly dividend of US$0.38 per share. The dividend is payable June 15 to DowDuPont shareholders of record at the close of business May 31. This marks the... Read more

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

ManageMen Adds Dominic Bratta to Consulting Team

ManageMen, Inc. has appointed Dominic Bratta to its team of training and workloading consultants. Bratta joins ManageMen from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), where he served as manager of... Read more

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House Sanitary Supply Promotes Two

House Sanitary Supply Co., Inc. recently promoted two staff members. Matthew Fowler has been promoted to acting general manager. Fowler has been with House Sanitary Supply for 25 years, serving a... Read more

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Cintas Facility in Nevada Achieves Zero Waste Certification

Cintas Facility in Nevada Achieves Zero Waste CertificationCintas Corp.’s distribution center in Reno, NV, has received Gold under the Total Resource Use and Efficiency (TRUE) Zero Waste certification system administered by Green Business... Read more

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Grainger Increases Quarterly Dividend 6%

Grainger Increases Quarterly Dividend 6%W.W. Grainger, Inc. has increased the quarterly dividend on its common stock 6.3 percent to US$1.36 per share. The dividend―$5.44 annualized with a yield of 1.96 percent―is payable June 1 to... Read more

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KB Building Services Recertifies to CIMS-GB With Honors

KB Building Services Recertifies to CIMS-GB With HonorsKB Building Services, Inc. has successfully completed recertification to the ISSA Cleaning Industry Management Standard (CIMS) and CIMS-Green Building (CIMS-GB) criteria with... Read more

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

3M Increases 1st-Quarter Sales 7.7%

3M Increases 1st-Quarter Sales 7.7%3M has reported fiscal-first-quarter sales of US$8.3 billion, up 7.7 percent from one year earlier. Sales in the company’s industrial segment increased 7.1 percent to $3.1 billion... Read more

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IFMA Issues New Facility Management Standard

IFMA Issues New Facility Management StandardThe International Facility Management Association (IFMA) has published a new standard for facility management. The new standard— ISO 41001, Facility Management–Management... Read more

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CIRI Announces New Mission Statement

The Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI) has released an updated vision and mission statement. The institute’s new vision states “CIRI is the clearinghouse for unbiased,... Read more

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Help! I Accidentally Ate Moldy Bread (or Moldy Cheese)!

Is Moldy Food Dangerous?

I know why you’re here. There can only be one reason why you now find yourself reading an incredibly informative and superbly written article on moldy cheese.

You’ve bought into the American Dream, haven’t you? What was it? Student loans? A new car? Don’t tell me–the new iPhone? Look, it’s none of my business. We’ll just say you “fell on hard times.”

Moments ago, you were standing in your kitchen, holding a package of moldy cheese with a desperate glint in your eyes. Those “hard times” are all fun and games until your stomach growls, huh? I understand. Adulting your way through the American Dream is bad enough without having to budget in groceries, too.

What else have you got? Condiments. Cereal, but no milk. Hmm. That just won’t do. Back to the cheese. It’s not too bad, is it?

“It’s just a little white mold on cheese,” you tell yourself as you turn it over for a better look. Maybe it won’t taste as sour as it smells after you give it a good scraping. Perhaps there are still some heels left from your Wonder Bread that you can muffle that potent moldy cheese with.

For years you’ve lived in luxury and entitlement, casting off the heel of the bread loaves like they were nothing but duck fodder. The Devil’s Elbow, you would call it as you discarded it in favor of a new loaf. Time and time again, you rejected with disgust what will now be your hunger’s salvation. The irony is not lost on you. You chuckle to yourself as you reach for the near-empty bread bag.

Extracting the heels with a new sense of appreciation, you decide to do a little arithmetic.

 

20 Slices Per Loaf (18=Edible, 2=Devil’s Elbow)

$2.39/Loaf

$0.12/Slice

1 Loaf/Week

2 Unwanted Butts/Week

1 Week=$0.24 Financial Waste

1 Year=$12.48 Financial Waste

30 Years=$374.40 Financial Waste

Lifetime=$982.17 Financial Waste

 

To your astonishment, you discover that your extravagant disdain for bread butts over the years has led you down the path of serious financial waste. In thirty years of butt-trashing, you wasted the equivalent of a Playstation 4. Later, if this behavior continues, you won’t be reminiscing about your loved ones or your childhood as you lie on your death bed. Instead, you’ll be consumed with regret as you recount your 78 years of bread-butt hating. Seventy-eight years? Why, that kind of waste is equal to flushing a brand new iPhone X! “From now on,” you vow, “I will appreciate butts of all shapes and sizes and quit being wasteful.”

Inspired, you hum to yourself as you begin assembling your pitiful sandwich. You’ve already scraped the moldy cheese so you gently and mindlessly fold it into your newly-appreciated Wonder Butt Bread. Ah, the moment has arrived! Your stomach angry, your nose plugged, you bite into your American Dream sandwich. White mold on cheese? Nah, you can’t taste it at all, especially since the “mold on bread” flavor is so intense. Wait, what?!

Your hand instantly recoils from your sandwich. In an effort to avoid another taste of that American Dream, every muscle fibre of your tongue performs a surgical ballet to remove the horror. You’re able to spit it into the trash and rinse your mouth out with tap water. Feeling dejected, you toss the evil sandwich away, too. On the bright side, you’re no longer hungry.

Moldy Cheese

Your paranoia gets the best of you. You reach out to your good friend Google. From relationship advice to cute cats to Hillary memes, Google’s never let you down. You type in “I ate moldy cheese,” followed by “mold on bread.” “I ate moldy cheese” yields hope when sites like Prevention promise: “…it’s totally safe to remove the moldy area and keep eating.” You sigh in relief but continue reading: “But with soft foods like Brie, bread, or grapes, you should toss the entire thing in the trash.” Fear takes its hold as you glance over at the trash bin containing the American Nightmare. It was a white, soft cheese and a white, soft bread, wasn’t it?

Next, “mold on bread” brings you to the Imagination Station website, where you are appalled to discover that the “colorful mold you see on the surface of food is just the tip of what is going on inside….Just like plants, mold has roots below the surface that can travel deep into the food….Because the colorful spores on the surface of your food are just part of the mold, scraping or cutting this part off of your bread or bagel won’t save you from eating a mouthful of fungus.”

At that moment, your cheek itches. You give a show of calm composure as you reach up and scratch, but not even you’re convinced. Quickly, you type in “side effects of eating bad cheese,” thinking that itch is precisely that—one of the side effects of eating bad cheese. You find The Cheesy Times website, which explains how E. Coli and Salmonella often grow alongside moldy cheese and make matters even worse. You read of compromised immune systems and intestinal issues, such as chronic Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). “Welp, that’s it! I’ll be on the toilet the rest of my life,” you say.

“I accidentally ate moldy bread” leads you to the Digg site where a professor of food microbiology warns of moldy bread consumption. You learn that some people get “irritations in the mouth, throat and nose,” or worse: “shock, hemorrhaging or necrosis.” Your throat suddenly feels dry. Your stomach gurgles. You quickly search “symptoms of eating moldy bread” only to find “nausea, vomiting, and watery or bloody diarrhea with abdominal pain” on every suggested site. Your eyes dart to the bathroom. Remembering how much you still owe Rent-A-Center for your furniture, you decide that prevention is best. You get up and make your way to the toilet. “Might as well be proactive,” you tell yourself as you take the Western position. Without shame, you continue your moldy Google search on the porcelain throne with the smartphone that costs only 35-years-worth of wasted bread butts. (You’re still paying that off, too.)

Moldy Bread

Your next search involves “types of bread mold.” Maybe the bread butt mold was a benign, friendly type and there’s still hope for your bowels. You soon learn of mycotoxins, aflatoxins, allergic reactions to Penicillium, and the significant dangers of toxigenic bread molds like Aspergillus. Then, there’s Cladosporium, Alternaria, Botrytis, Geotrichum, Monilia, Fusarium, Manoscus, Mortierella, Oidium, Mucor, Neurospora, Oosproa, and Rhizopus. The effects of Rhizopus stolonifer aren’t too bad, but what color was the mold you ate? Was it black or dark blue-green? Did it look fuzzy? Oh, you can’t remember! You’re tempted to leave your throne and dig through the trash to find out but you’re reminded of the vomiting and bloody diarrhea you just read about. “It’s best to stay put, just in case,” you say.

There’s 15% battery remaining on your phone. Your next search better give you some closure. Before long, you stumble across MoldBlogger.com. It’s there that you discover article after article, warning you of the dangers of molds in all forms and supplying you with credible solutions to every-day mold problems. Soon, you find this article, detailing an experience very similar to yours. It’s uncanny really and you resist the urge to check over your shoulder to see if a MoldBlogger author is watching you. (We are.)

You continue perusing through the article and discover that, at the most, the worst symptoms you might experience (from a single bite that was quickly spit out) are cold- or flu-like and will pass shortly. It is repetitive exposure to food molds that causes the most lasting damage. As time passes and exposure continues, some “benign” molds can develop an allergenic response in the body, allergenic molds can become pathogenic, and pathogenic molds can become carcinogenic (cancer-causing). Therefore, while all molds have the potential to wreak havoc on the human body, a single-dose of mold on bread or moldy cheese won’t debilitate you for life or even necessarily kill you. The only exceptions are 1. a pre-existing health condition, and 2. a compromised immune system. Even then, there are solutions to overcoming mold exposure, no matter how toxic. For example, an anti-fungal diet will support the body in healing and ridding itself of mold. Avoiding sugars, meats, dairy, and processed foods is not just a good idea if you are, indeed, hosting mold in your body, it’s also a good idea to abstain from such foods for the remainder of the day after you’ve mistakenly eaten mold. Dark leafy greens and colorful vegetables are a good choice after such a poor one. “Unfortunately,” you say, “I’m broke and don’t get paid until tomorrow.” Reading on, you discover that water fasting is another excellent way to rid the body of mold and yeast, considering the body is a self-healing machine.

“If you accidentally ate moldy bread or moldy cheese,” concludes the author, “don’t panic.”

You heave a sigh of relief and renounce your porcelain throne.

 

About the Author: Amanda Demsky is the mother and personal chef of two boys, the domestic technician of a three-bedroom desert home, and occasionally, a freelance writer and editor. Feel free to follow her on Twitter fullquiver777.



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Monday, April 23, 2018

SC Johnson Updates Brand Identity

SC Johnson, parent company of SC Johnson Professional, has announced a new brand identity and corporate tagline. SC Johnson has referred to itself as “A Family Company,” in its... Read more

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Kimberly-Clark's 1st-Quarter Sales Rise 5%

Kimberly-Clark Corp., parent company of Kimberly-Clark Professional, has reported first-quarter revenue of US$4.7 billion for the quarter, an increase of 5 percent from the prior... Read more

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P&G Supports Tornado Relief Efforts in North Carolina

Procter & Gamble (P&G), parent company of Procter & Gamble Professional, has donated personal care products and cleaning supplies to international disaster relief charity Matthew 25:... Read more

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ISSA and NORMI Join Forces to Better Serve Members

ISSA and NORMI Join Forces to Better Serve MembersISSA is pleased to announce it has entered an alliance with the National Organization of Remediators and Mold Inspectors (NORMI) to undertake initiatives that leverage the expertise of both... Read more

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Friday, April 20, 2018

P&G Purchases Health Care Business

Procter & Gamble Co., parent company of Procter & Gamble Professional, has acquired the consumer health division of The Merck Group for US$4.2 billion. P&G’s purchase bolsters... Read more

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Cascades Recognized for Marketing Strategy

Cascades Recognized for Marketing StrategyCascades Tissue Group was named the first runner up in the Best Tissue Marketing Strategy category at the Tissue World magazine Mill Awards. The annual awards ceremony was held earlier this... Read more

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Industry Loses Servicon Systems Founder

Richard Mahdesian, founder of Servicon Systems, Inc., passed away March 31, 2018. He was 89 years old. Mahdesian was born January 9, 1929, in Los Angeles, CA. During his tenure in the Air Force,... Read more

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Southeastern Paper Honors Murray Weyand Sales

Southeastern Paper Group, Inc. recently named Murray Shelton Jr. of Murray Weyand Sales its 2017 Supplier of the Year. Shelton was recognized for his outstanding customer support and business... Read more

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Weekly Product Showcase April 20, 2018

Weekly Product Showcase April 20, 2018Stay up to date on the industry's newest products and services from these ISSA members. A Scensible Liner HOSPECO® Scensibles® SecureFit360® Poly Liner Bags protect jansan... Read more

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Thursday, April 19, 2018

Grainger's 1st-Quarter Sales Rise 9%

Grainger's 1st-Quarter Sales Rise 9%W.W. Grainger, Inc. has reported first-quarter sales of US$2.8 billion, an increase of 9 percent year-over-year. Grainger’s U.S. sales, which account for the majority of the company's total... Read more

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SC Johnson Publishes 2017 Sustainability Report

SC Johnson, parent company of SC Johnson Professional, has issued its 2017 sustainability report. The report details the company’s efforts to improve human health and the environment,... Read more

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ABM Helps Battleship Museum Cut Energy Costs

ABM Helps Battleship Museum Cut Energy CostsABM has been contracted to upgrade the energy efficiency of the USS Iowa Battleship Museum in Los Angeles, CA. The contract calls for ABM to outfit the nearly 500,000 square-foot battleship and... Read more

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P&G Reports 3rd-Quarter Revenue Increase

Procter & Gamble (P&G), parent company of Procter & Gamble Professional, has reported a fiscal-third-quarter revenue of US$16.28 billion, an increase of 4.3percent from a year... Read more

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