The report, published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, found that air blasted out from the hand drying nozzles contains far more bacteria than normal bathroom air. As many as 60 ...

Scientists comparing normal bathroom air to that blasted from hand dryer nozzles have found far more bacterial colonies develop in samples exposed to the latter. The results were published this ...

You may think that using a hand dryer ... dryers spray harmful bacteria when used. Everyone knows that it’s common decency to close the toilet lid after you’ve been to the bathroom.

but interior hand dryer nozzle surfaces had minimal bacterial levels, plates exposed to bathroom air for 2 min with hand dryers off averaged ≤1 colony, and plates exposed to bathroom air moved by a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Hand dryers may leave your hands significantly more dirty than before ...