Woolite Contamination Recalls 2023 and 2025

[Cepacia]

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/W...re-to-Bacteria-Sold-Exclusively-on-Amazon-com

Woolite contamination. Some may recall another household cleaner contamination from a few years back - https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/a42805515/fabuloso-cleaner-recall-full-list/

 

[jedishrfu]

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.

 

[Rive]

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.

 

[Cepacia]

soap is also prone to contamination - but the bugs that will not grow on conventional media
https://www.academia.edu/download/57026713/B0404010510.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ics.12401

 

[jedishrfu]

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.

 

[Cepacia]

gack! real bad emissions - prob chloramines rather than Cl gas