IRS Responds to Accident Involving Heroin and Fentanyl Contamination
Clandestine drug operations can produce an interesting mix of pharmaceutical hazards; in many cases, the quantity and percentage of narcotics and/or products the drugs are cut with are unknown. This is what happened when the Infection Control Technologies team took an...
SteraMist Approved by Organic Materials Review Institute for Food Disinfection
In a major breakthrough for food disinfection and food safety TOMI's Steramist TM has been approved by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) for use in food service areas. Why is this a critical breakthrough in food disinfection? We already know that the...
From the Infection Control Experts: Comparing Disinfection Methods
Over the past ten years, Infection Control Technologies (ICT) has managed complicated biohazard events in many specialized environments – trauma scenes, research labs and pharmaceutical facilities, healthcare centers, food processing facilities, and more. Each poses...
HEPA Negative Pressure Systems and COVID-19 Patients
Infection Control Technologies (ICT) was recently brought in to help a local healthcare system with establishing negative containment and isolation of space for COVID–19 patients. With the concern of cross-contamination from bioaerosols generated from patients and...
Infection Control Technologies HAZMAT Crews Performing COVID-19-Positive Mitigations Statewide
Infection Control Technologies (ICT), the facility hygiene division of Insurance Restoration Specialists, Inc. (IRS) of Monroe Township, NJ, has been tackling COVID-19 sites around the State. The company is under contract with the NJ Department of Treasury as well as...
Deep Cleaning for COVID19
ICT's own Thomas Licker was recently called on in an article in The Atlantic to explain deep cleaning in the age of COVID19. What is a Deep Clean? We've all heard this phrase before but what does a 'deep clean' really mean? In areas that are high risk - schools,...
NJ’s Infection Control Technologies, Inc. Performs Second COVID-19 Decontamination in as Many Days
Monroe, NJ - Infection Control Technologies, Inc. (ICT) dispatched a second biological decontamination team to treat a New Jersey retail location after a performing the same service the previous day in New York. In both instances, there had been confirmed COVID-19...
Novel Coronavirus – Covid 19 ICT Technical Bulletin
Novel Coronavirus or Covid-19, as it is now known, has started to move in to North America. We have a new positive case in New York City. People are being evacuated from China and are currently being sent to designated quarantine facilities on military bases...
Coronavirus Disrupting Personal Protective Gear Supply Chain
The strain of novel Coronavirus identified in Wuhan, China has the world on alert as it continues to spread across the globe. The total number of infected people according to Chinese officials stands at 20,438 with 425 dead as of this writing but is expected to...
Hepatitis A Outbreak Continues to Expand in NJ After Infecting Over 500
An ongoing Hepatitis A outbreak has sickened over 500 and killed 6 in the New Jersey area prompting health officials to issue an alert to the public. So what is Hepatitis A, how is it transmitted and what precautions can the public take? Highly contagious Hepatitis A...