For the sake of our beleaguered environment I don't have any bleach in my house. I always use white vinegar either diluted or straight. I use it for cleaning almost everything. Stephanie
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 5, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Donna Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Before retirement, I spent 15 years in Cornell Cooperative Extension/Food > Science Dept. at Cornell doing food safety education all over NYS. This > included teaching the mundane but necessary/crucial principles for cleaning > and sanitizing dishes, utensils and food prep surfaces. > > It is important to know that simply rinsing dirty bird feeders in 10% bleach > may not be as effective as we might think. > Bleach is "taken up" by organic matter, soap, and dirt and becomes > ineffective. > > Therefore, if you haven't thought of this already, > you need first to wash and scrub bird feeders with warm water and soap to > remove most the organic matter and dirt, > rinse well with clean water, > THEN dip the feeders in 10% bleach. Air dry so the bleach volatilizes away. > Or, you could dry them with a hair dryer. > > Straight Vinegar is also a good sanitizer that could be used instead of > bleach, although it is not as strong. > In food service situations we use the strategy of switching sanitizers now > and then, from bleach to quaternary ammonium compounds and back, to help > combat bacteria and viruses becoming resistent to any one sanitizer. Vinegar > could be used at home as an alternate sanitizer, since most people do not > have "quats" in their kitchen. > > Therese O'Connor may want to weigh in on this info, if she has anything to > add. > > Donna L. Scott > Lansing Station Road > Lansing, NY > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
