"A large number and variety of products now incorporate Microban including kitchen cutting boards, dental instrument trays, surgical incise drapes, socks, bedding, food-service wipes, and even concrete and industrial drains. The list is growing, thanks to the demand by companies seeking to infuse antimicrobial properties into their products and the public's blossoming awareness of the ravages these omnipresent microbes can inflict on the human body."

This is an excert from an article in 'Environmental Health Perspectives' back from March of '97.  The article goes on to talk about the beginnings of the search for a way to control microorganism contamination in a hospital setting. 

Now since the successful implementation of antimicrobial additives to products in the medical field, the list of items containing such protection as "Microban" has grown dramatically and is exploding!

There are now antimicrobial products for your office and your home that can help prevent the spread of things as drastic as Salmonella and E.Coli.

Read the entire article, "Germ Warfare".