| Medical professionals risk their lives daily, perhaps not | | | | The articles of clothing may be washed as normal |
| with death-defying stunts, but instead with their | | | | clothes, with no special care needed. The dyes are |
| constant risk of exposure to microorganisms and other | | | | colorfast, and are bonded so well to the fabric that the |
| pathogens. Medical professions are vital to maintaining | | | | protective barrier cannot be washed off neither can it |
| healthy communities, and professionals under this | | | | transfer to other surfaces. It also has no odor, and |
| umbrella are esteemed and valued. | | | | does not suffer from off-gassing. It is safe for humans |
| Being in constant danger of catching something makes | | | | and animals and has received acceptance from the |
| medical professions risky affairs. Nurses, doctors, | | | | United States Food and Drug Administration board, and |
| laboratory technicians, and even social health workers | | | | is registered with the U.S. Environmental Protection |
| are all at risk for catching sicknesses from those that | | | | Agency. |
| they treat. Worse, they could spread it around | | | | There are also many styles of clothes utilizing Bioshield. |
| unconsciously when it sticks to their clothes. | | | | From plain one-color scrubs, to pristine white laboratory |
| Bioshield by Landau is a new material intended to deal | | | | coats, to sophisticated prints and cuts, medical |
| with the problem of bacterial transmission via medical | | | | professionals won't have to sacrifice form for function. |
| scrubs. It is durable, easily maintained, and highly | | | | These also come in a wide range of sizes, to suit the |
| protective against many kinds of microorganisms, be | | | | needs of medical professionals everywhere. There |
| they bacteria, fungi, algae, or yeast. It is also | | | | are even some items for those in non-medical fields |
| environmentally friendly, so you need not worry about | | | | who require microbial control. |
| the production and disposal effects on the | | | | With Bioshield, the risk of spreading microbes can be |
| environment. | | | | reduced significantly. This means that medical |
| This revolutionary fabric finish achieves its effect by | | | | environments will be cleaner, safer, and more effective. |
| mechanical means, though on a microscopic scale. The | | | | Medical professionals will not have to worry about |
| surface of these fabrics is coated with a material | | | | carrying microbes and transferring them in the course |
| called Bioshield 7200, which forms spikes mere | | | | of their work, nor will they have to worry about |
| nanometers in height. The result is a fabric densely | | | | bringing germs home by accident, and they can rest |
| studded with spikes that pierce the cellular walls of | | | | easier knowing that they are more protected from |
| microbes, popping them like so many tiny balloons. This | | | | catching illnesses themselves. Doctors, nurses, and |
| makes the fabric an inhospitable environment for | | | | technicians in the line of health services are very |
| microorganisms, making the transfer of biological | | | | valuable members of society, protecting us from |
| pathogens a less likely event or even a non-event. | | | | sickness and curing our ails. |
| Since it works on a physical level, Bioshield does not | | | | Innovations like these that make it easier for medical |
| need any embedded chemicals to destroy | | | | professionals to do their work do not only benefit |
| microorganisms and is much safer than other | | | | them, but also everyone around them and the entire |
| antimicrobial fabrics. | | | | community as a whole. |
| This barrier is very durable, so they will last a long time. | | | | |