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Why do users of this product have so few, if any, infection outbreaks? Because they make best use of phrases like prevention is better than cure and keep it simple. They know it’s simpler to rinse a few dangerous microbes away than clean up during and after an infection outbreak.

What do people say is important to them in infection prevention? Things like:

  • Removing potentially dangerous microbes from skin.
  • Hand hygiene products people like to use.
  • Microbes easily removed from hard surfaces, equipment and fabrics.
  • Safe for babies and animals during and after use.  

NewGenne kept it simple by creating one formulation to achieve all that, and more. The NewGenne S R range began as Skin Rinse, hence the  S R name. People do what they intended to do anyway, and the S R range grew as we listened to users, blending numerous products into their daily lives. They wanted prevention and we kept it simple, utilising the little-and-often principle. S R products have good biocidal action but their primary intended purpose is to rinse skin and associated surfaces. 

Then we added well-being empowerment through choice. People can choose to keep doing what they’ve always done knowing they’ll achieve the same as before. Even if that means repeated infection outbreaks.  Or they can choose to do something different and achieve something different which means far fewer, if any, outbreaks. NewGenne’s Hand cleansing & S R range makes it simple to choose prevention. It’s also easier, more cost effective, better for the environment and enhances well-being. They’re the “and more” parts people didn’t ask for but are provided anyway. We hope you like it and pass your thoughts to others. 

  Making Cleaning And Hygiene SAFER  SIMPLER  SMARTER

   FOR YOU, YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR ANIMALS, AND YOUR BUSINESS:

Nature Creates Balance And At NewGenne®, We Work With Nature

 

The Laws of Nature favour balance. These laws prevail and humans can disrupt Nature’s balance. Global warming offers a clear example of this.

How do humans contribute to global warming?

Humans are putting an estimated 9.5 billion metric tonnes of carbon into the Earth’s atmosphere each year via the burning of fossil fuels. Deforestation and other land cover changes equate to a further 1.5 billion metric tonnes entering our planet’s atmosphere annually. Humans are the main cause of global warming, an aspect of climate change which is increasing the frequency and intensity of some types of extreme weather, including heavy rain and drought.

Humans have disregarded Nature’s balance concerning the climate for so long that we have to wonder if it’s too late to reverse the damage that our actions have caused. Fortunately, millions of wonderful people around the world are doing all they can to try and restore some sort of balance – we should, and can, all be reducing our carbon footprint. This is very positive and we all know that positivity brings hope.

Positive inclusive thinking

At NewGenne®, our team’s main contribution is positive inclusive thinking. We have earned our reputation as industry experts when it comes to preventing infectious diseases in hospitals and other clinical and medical settings across the globe because we appreciate what others are doing.

The act of considering all the information available is what enables us, as a company, to ask how we can support others to find new choices and help them to achieve better outcomes. Educating and learning are both key to our success.

The right answers appear when you ask the right questions

The footer statement on NewGenne®’s website reads “The right answers appear when you ask the right questions.” This is something we firmly believe and through finding – and asking – the necessary questions, we have uncovered numerous valuable answers that have allowed us to help many people. What is particularly gratifying, is when those we have helped choose to share this advice and support with others.

NewGenne®’s eco-friendly product range

We supply our gentle, versatile and economical products from our business premises in Norfolk and as a company, we are always looking to further reduce our own carbon footprint. We enable all our customers to save massively on plastic, and money, with our refill items and our dilutable SR100 (Concentrate).

You can maintain excellent personal and environmental hygiene practices with our justifiably popular water-based and eco-friendly products which are available on our online shop.

We will continue to play our part whilst trusting in others to ask the right questions about global warming and climate change. Many individuals and companies worldwide are working tirelessly to find those questions and provide us with what will prove to be the most helpful answers.

Alcohol Free Sanitisers Preventing Norovirus Outbreaks in Schools

How can we be proactive in preventing Norovirus outbreaks in schools

Viruses are something we have become far too familiar with since the outbreak of Coronavirus back in 2019, and hygiene has become a priority for us all, particularly in schools. Norovirus is still the most infectious virus known to infect humans, so prevention is of utmost importance. Virologists say as few as ten virus particles are sufficient to induce clinical disease. School teams know what an outbreak looks like, smells like and feels like, overcoming any need to describe it here.

The first point to consider is that there are over 20 strains of Norovirus, so any single outbreak in a school can be followed by 19 more without any of the previously developed immunity providing any protection. If you have the conditions for one outbreak, you can look forward to more. Norovirus outbreaks mean disruption, unpleasant symptoms for all concerned, added costs in the school budget and a whole lot of misery. 

The second point relates to Norovirus being a very difficult virus to inactivate with disinfectants. Overcoming outbreaks means negative impact on the environment through the decontamination chemicals used, and the plastic packaging for those chemicals. 

As things stand, school management teams have a choice. They can expect regular Norovirus outbreaks or implement NewGenne’s very cost effective procedures; the ones already used by Norfolk schools. In those schools there has been an absolute absence of Norovirus outbreaks for years. 

How can NewGenne achieve such astounding results in preventing Norovirus outbreaks in schools, when large suppliers of hygiene products continue to fail?

One of the main reasons is that NewGenne’s former CEO did his PhD in this virus type, and learned how to keep the virus particle numbers below that required for disease. To save space here, let’s reduce his PhD thesis to just one sentence…

‘In disease there is art and science and the art lies in knowing when to use the science.’

Throwing powerful disinfectants at Norovirus is associated with repeat outbreaks; the art is missing in that approach. The art required is to be found in the ‘little and often’ and ‘minimalism’ arenas. 

If you want to know more, please talk to the school teams who have been without an outbreak for over a decade. If you don’t know them, we will ask if you can have their details. The process to keep Norovirus contained took many years to develop and has since prevented Norovirus outbreaks for decades. . We enjoys sharing that wisdom with school students when that helps. 

In conclusion, avoiding Norovirus outbreaks enhances wellbeing and provides environmental gains. It’s also a lot cheaper than cleaning up the mess. 

Healthy skin on the hands of healthcare workers is vital in the battle against infections.

Despite this necessity, it’s apparently considered reasonable for a quarter of healthcare workers to suffer from Occupational Dermatitis on their hands. The primary focus has been on these people using strong antimicrobial hand hygiene products with little regard for how these products adversely affect the skin on the hands.

The most common chemicals in hand hygiene products are chlorhexidine and alcohol. Both remove vital fats from skin, resulting in skin dryness. When dry skin results from hand hygiene products provided by employers, they often provide their employees with hand creams and moisturisers.

Using peer-reviewed medical evidence, we’ve shown how applying such products to dry skin can lead to Atopic Eczema. In healthcare workers, this is often called Chronic Hand Eczema. 

To avoid dry skin on the hands, we provide hand hygiene products which allow the skin to heal itself. A ‘cure’ for this form of dermatitis was unnecessary as inflammation does not occur when the causative ingredients are no longer applied.

It was important to have a hand rub for use when away from a tap. That rub had to contain no alcohol.

It was equally important to have hand washes, one for general cleansing and another for antimicrobial action. It is common for different brands to be used to achieve these two purposes and it is also common for the ingredients in the cleansing product to inactivate the active substance in the antimicrobial product. We overcame that by ensuring these two products were actually the same product, with only a colour difference to differentiate them.

We ‘dialled in the people’ by providing hand hygiene products which left a silky feel to the skin.  People willingly use them to gain that positive feedback loop of wonderful skin.

Animal Care With NewGenne

Here at NewGenne, we supply our industry-leading hygiene products to hospitals and other clinical and medical settings around the world. Our extensive range is renowned for being extremely efficient at cleaning, sanitising and disinfecting whilst being gentle enough for use by those with the most sensitive skin – including healthcare workers with Chronic Hand Eczema. It is these combined attributes that make our products ideal for all manner of tasks, from environmental infection prevention to personal hygiene practices at home, work and elsewhere. The versatility of our unrivalled products also enables vets, groomers and pet owners to ensure optimum animal care and hygiene too!

When Have NewGenne’s Products Made A Difference?


Before her knowledge of NewGenne, a dog daycare and training centre operator noticed that the products she was using to carry out several routine hygiene tasks, such as cleaning and disinfecting, were causing a number of concerning issues. These included some of the dogs suffering from sore paws and lingering odours in the premises.

She was then introduced to NewGenne co-founder and Former Company Director, Dr Harley Farmer, who provided her with gentle products, produced by NewGenne, to use for all of the centre’s hygiene tasks instead.

Soon after solely using NewGenne’s products at the centre, she found that they were achieving fantastic results. This included an improvement in the dogs’ paws, an odour-free environment and even feedback from the staff regarding their own hand hygiene:

“No more smells, no more sore feet and really good for the human element of the centre to use as well. I would always recommend NewGenne’s products and wouldn’t consider using anything else.”

This transformation in the quality of animal care is a perfect example of just how versatile our gentle product range really is.

The Versatility Of NewGenne’s Products

At NewGenne, our products enable you to maintain excellent hygiene practices and prevent infection when at home, work and out and about. Our SR Concentrate (which is a lot kinder than its name implies) forms the base for many of our chemically compatible cleansing, sanitising and disinfecting products and passes the EN 14476 test against enveloped viruses – this means that the products we produce kill membrane-bound viruses like the COVID-19 coronavirus as well as many other nasties.

Utilising the same items to maintain optimum personal hygiene and to clean out your horse box, rabbit hutch, birdcage or chicken coop can understandably seem too good to be true, however, NewGenne’s hygiene products allow you to do just that, and very efficiently!

“We know how to kill the microbes, so why are those microbes still killing people?”

We are very positive people at NewGenne, so why ask such a negative question? Because thousands of premature deaths arise from hospital infections every year. We believe most of those deaths are avoidable and we actively work to prevent such deaths.

When we formed the company in 2001, the concept of having NO infections in a British hospital was laughed at. The hospital professionals did not see “control” and “prevent” as synonymous. Their medical association was called the Hospital Infection Society. To them, infections were inevitable when you grouped sick people in hospitals and their job was to 

control infections that had already happened. 100,000 infection deaths have occurred in British hospitals in the last 20 years, keeping these professionals extremely busy.

What has changed in two decades?

Now, a few British hospitals count the days when they have no infections; the rest still count the infections every day. In this sector, that’s astounding progress.

What has the NewGenne team contributed over those years?

One example is that Dr Harley Farmer, a co-founder, recently had a chapter published in an infection prevention textbook which is now used in continued professional development. He used that chapter to point out that we like our medical professionals to follow the evidence and ask whether they are following evidence of success or evidence of failure? He cited articles from their medical literature showing that it was mainly evidence of failure.

How does that help when so many continue to die? The answer is extremely evident on this website. We can do a lot, and we have. However, we can’t do it all alone and it’s very pleasing to see how many people within the sector now stand with us.

We hope you join this positive collaboration Mr colin wick company Director.