A good question and I'm glad you asked.

Today, Americans are spending more and more time at their desks – including their home offices. Dirty desktops can create the ideal conditions for damaging microbes to grow and reproduce.

So, in order to combat this problem, antimicrobial office products have hit the marketplace.

These products contain built-in antimicrobial technology which provides an added level of cleanliness for your office products by inhibiting the uncontrolled growth of microbes, such as bacteria that can cause odors and product deterioration.

One manufacturer of antimicrobial filing products, SMEAD, claims the antimicrobial additive on their file folders "creates a material that is toxic to nearly all infectious bacteria, fungi, molds and mildew."