{"id":15238,"date":"2020-05-11T10:15:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=15238"},"modified":"2020-05-11T10:15:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T10:15:17","slug":"antimicrobial-wiring-accessories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/antimicrobial-wiring-accessories\/","title":{"rendered":"Antimicrobial wiring accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15227\" src=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/scolmorep30-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/scolmorep30-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/scolmorep30-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/scolmorep30.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Infection control is one of the biggest challenges facing the healthcare sector. Switch plates, such as light switches, dimmers and sockets have one of the highest touch rates in any environment, so are likely to hold a significant number of microbes on their surfaces. The use of products with antimicrobial properties will have a part to play to help inhibit the spread of infection.<\/p>\n<p>Scolmore\u2019s antimicrobial wiring accessories &#8211; Mode, Mode Part M and Polar &#8211; are all manufactured using Urea Formaldehyde, which has similar inherent properties to antimicrobial additives that inhibit the growth of infectious diseases. When independently tested, all products achieved a 99.99% kill off rate across all four types of the strains of bacteria \u2013 MRSA, E-Coli, Salmonella and Klebsiella Pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>Products from the Mode, Mode Part M and Polar ranges have been specified and installed across a huge range of applications including schools, hospitals, care homes, hotels, offices and leisure complexes. All products within the ranges are covered by a \u2018No Quibble Guarantee\u2019 against any fault in materials or manufacture experienced at any time within 20 years of the date of supply.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scolmore.com\/products\/mode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.scolmore.com\/products\/mode<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infection control is one of the biggest challenges facing the healthcare sector. Switch plates, such as light switches, dimmers and sockets have one of the highest touch rates in any environment, so are likely to hold a significant number of microbes on their surfaces. The use of products with antimicrobial properties will have a part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/scolmorep30.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15239,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238\/revisions\/15239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}