Survey Looks at Cleaning Industry’s Reaction to H1N1
Infection Control Today
August 23, 2010
A recent survey polled 131 jansan distributors and their customers regarding their thoughts on last year’s H1N1 scare and its impact on the professional cleaning industry.
The survey was commissioned by Enviro-Solutions, a manufacturer of environmentally preferable cleaning products. The respondents were all distributors for Enviro-Solutions along with some of their customers.
Because the H1N1 virus made international headlines for several months but since then has drifted out of view, respondents were asked if they thought concerns about it were exaggerated or unfounded from the start. Slightly more than 50 percent said no; thirty percent responded yes while the rest were unsure. When asked who might be considered responsible for sensationalizing the problem if the H1N1 scare was indeed overstated or unfounded, sixty percent answered, “Nobody; we simply did not know how serious the epidemic would be.” Most of the rest blamed any sensationalism associated with the scare on “the media.”
