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US 2006/0067915 A1Published application
Foaming composition of competitive exclusion microbes and method of using same
AssigneeEcolab Inc.
InventorsTeresa Podtburg, Bruce Schmidt, Bruce Cords, Lawrence Grab, David Halsrud
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a composition including a microbial component and a foaming component, wherein the composition can be used to prevent the proliferation, or otherwise competitively exclude the continued growth of, undesirable microbes. The present invention also includes a method of using this composition.
Claims23
A composition comprising:
- foaming component;
- and
- microbial component.
A foamed composition comprising:
- about 0.01 to about 10 wt-% of foaming component;
- and
- about 0.05 to about 5 wt-% of microbial component;
- wherein the composition comprises foam.
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A method of reducing the population of an undesirable microbe on an object, the method comprising:
- contacting the object with a foam composition comprising competitive exclusion microbe.
A method of applying competitive exclusion microbe comprising:
- foaming a composition comprising the competitive exclusion microbe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.