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So, Automatic Hand Washing Machines are a Thing

By Rain Noe - November 9, 2020

While most human beings know how to wash their hands, the managers of industrial-scale food processing facilities can't afford for a harried worker to rush the job, miss some germs and contaminate a batch. This has given rise to a rather bizarre machine: The automatic handwashing station, which is "clinically proven to remove more than 99.9% of harmful pathogens from hands in 12 seconds using 75% less water than a traditional sink," according to manufacturer Meritech.

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While these machines have been largely invisible to the public, in recent years they've popped up in barbecue restaurants, crab restaurants and even on Disney's cruise ships. "We're seeing, more and more, the trend moving towards front-of-the-house," Meritech CTO Paul Barnhill told CBS News, who reports that an unnamed grocery chain has begun installing the machines in their produce sections.

With the pandemic expected to continue throughout 2021, it probably won't be long before you see one of these pop up in your area.

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Dee An

4 years ago

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>"While most human beings know how to wash their hands,"
If they did, why do medical students have an entire module devoted to hand washing? Companies preparing food are similar, with instructions on how to ensure that every part of your hands is properly cleaned before entering the food area.
Of course this is a subject that many of us have learnt more about this year. A nice piece of design is from washyourlyrics.com, where you input a favourite song title, and it outputs a pdf of the song lyrics accompanying diagrams of a thorough hand wash.

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Hyram Williams

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A number of restaurants in Austin TX have these, they are great. Schools should have them, kids love using them.

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