Ecolab Inc.

Ecolab USA Inc.

Scott Philip Lyon

Roger L Stolte

Ross Michael Skadsberg

Henry Louis Carbone, Ii

Sally K Swart

Ryan D Meek

Kirsten M Thompson

Kimberly Severin Johnston

John R Bucholz

A validated healthcare facility cleaning and sanitizing system provides a comprehensive and systematic approach to cleaning and sanitizing practices at a hospital or other healthcare facility. The validated hospital cleaning system identifies hospital vectors of contamination; that is, sources through which hospital acquired infections (HAIs) may be spread. The validated system defines a plurality of modules within a healthcare facility, each having an associated cleaning process map designed to meet the particular cleaning and/or sanitizing needs and challenges faced by that module. Various stages of the cleaning process map include validation points, at which certain parameters designed to ensure proper cleaning and/or sanitizing of the module are verified.

Validated healthcare cleaning and sanitizing practices

Material, composition, and manufacturing method alternatives for a solidification matrix that may be used, for example, in solid cleaning compositions, or other technologies. In at least some embodiments, the solidification matrix includes a binding agent that is formed by the use of MGDA, or a salt or derivative thereof, and water to produce a solid binding agent. In some embodiments, the MGDA and water combines and can solidify to act as a binder material or binding agent dispersed throughout a solid composition that may contain other functional ingredients that provide the desired properties and/or functionality to the solid composition.

Binding agent for solidification matrix

Method of forming a binding agent for solidification matrix

Binding agent for solidification matrix comprising MGDA

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Scott Philip Lyon