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Toilet scale is a problem that affects nearly every household and public facility. Its presence not only affects the room’s appearance and functionality but also hygiene, creating conditions conducive to bacterial growth and unpleasant odors. In extreme cases, limescale buildup can lead to serious sewer system failures, such as clogged pipes or damage to plumbing components.

Many managers responsible for maintaining cleanliness in commercial facilities, offices, manufacturing plants, or medical facilities are unaware that despite investing significant resources in equipment and staff, cleaning results fall far short of expectations. Frequent touch-ups, unsatisfactory results, excessive working hours, and high operating costs are signs that something in this process isn’t working optimally. Can this be changed?

Vacation is a time for trips, enjoying unusual pleasures, visiting museums, or other interesting places. During this time, we also visit restaurants, bars, waffle stands, and ice cream shops more often. We also take advantage of the services of people selling snacks and cold drinks on the beach.

Reports are coming in from all sides about severe cases of illness in cats in certain regions of Poland.

A long weekend is perfect for gatherings with family and friends. We have more time for culinary experiments—but do we remember about pathogens invisible to the naked eye? Let’s make sure we spend this time in a germ-free environment. How can we do that? We have proven methods for this.

The cycling season is fast approaching, and May Day is just around the corner. Some of us are lucky enough to own our own bikes, but many people also use city bikes or rental bikes. Do we realize how many microorganisms live on the handlebars of a bike or scooter that are touched by dozens or even hundreds of people?

While it seemed that the COVID-19 pandemic would soon be a thing of the past and the world would return to normal, reality turns out to be less rosy. One reason for this is the emergence of new SARS-CoV variants resulting from mutations. Is there an end in sight for these mutations, and is there any way we can protect ourselves from them?

Close contact among children in preschools and schools, combined with the fall and winter season, contributes to the spread of bacterial and viral upper respiratory tract infections—including the flu—and pneumococcal infections. It also turns out that in Europe and the U.S., the rising number of coronavirus infections among the youngest children is becoming an increasingly serious problem. How can we protect our children from getting sick, especially after returning to in-person learning?

The closure of public bathhouses or the belief that bathing was harmful in the early modern era did not cause societies to completely give up using bathtubs, which were soon joined by further bathroom innovations—bidets, elaborate combinations of showers and bicycles, all the way to today’s whirlpool tubs. In the era of the climate crisis, sustainability is also increasingly finding its way into our bathrooms.