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Hi Katy, Your local council should have a commissioning team that will be coordinating PPE and sanitiser for social care, other health professionals, and the like. Best contact them, but I suspect they will be extremely busy dealing with this anyway. If you want to make hand sanitiser, the WHO local production guide (https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf) is very useful. BW Jon > On 27 Mar 2020, at 12:08, Katy Hewis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Calling all chemists! I'm having to dredge up latent skills to cope with the demand from people desperate to know how best to protect their workforce whilst still having to do their daily tasks. > > How to explain: > 1/ antimicrobial vs antibacterial > 2/ why for surfaces, soapy water dried off and followed by bleach is as good as anything > 3/ sodium hypochlorite vs benzalkonium chloride > 4/ why concentration is important > > Also we have health professionals desperate for hand sanitiser looking for local industries to provide ingredients. Do you have any experience of firms willing to help out wherever you are? > > If ever there was a need for good science communication it is now. Trying to wade through science literature to get to simple accessible information is a nightmare. > > I want to be able to say > This is a virus this is a bacterium and this is how they differ > Why it lives outside the body and how long for > This is why we use soap and water > Why we can't kill it > Why it doesn't carry on living in water after we've washed it down the sink. > How does bleach work? > How do hand sanitiser gels/spray work? > > Quite happy to work on the answers to these if anyone wants to join me. > > Keep safe and well. > > Katy > ********************************************************************** psci-com how-to: Once subscribed, send emails for the list to [log in to unmask] If not subscribed, either subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com or send requests for items to be posted on your behalf to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe (or silence messages while away) send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print Contact Jisc Helpline: Email: [log in to unmask], Telephone: 0300 300 2212 ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** psci-com how-to: Once subscribed, send emails for the list to [log in to unmask] If not subscribed, either subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com or send requests for items to be posted on your behalf to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe (or silence messages while away) send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print Contact Jisc Helpline: Email: [log in to unmask], Telephone: 0300 300 2212 **********************************************************************