The warning has been made by Birmingham and Warwick university scientists, who say disinfectants and other products washed into sewers and rivers are triggering the growth of drug-resistant microbes.

做出警告的英国伯明翰和华威大学的科学家认为，冲入下水道和河流的消毒剂和其他产品引发了抗药性微生物的增长。

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Fabric softeners, disinfectants, shampoos and other household products are spreading drug-resistant bacteria around Britain, scientists have warned.

科学家警告说，柔顺剂、消毒剂、洗发香波和其他家居清洁产品使抗药细菌在全英蔓延。

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This neutralizer and its neutralizing products with the three compound disinfectants did not influence the growth of Candida albicans.

该中和剂及其与三种复配消毒剂的中和产物对白色念珠菌的生长均无影响。

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Laurent Faracci, chief strategy and marketing officer of Reckitt Benckiser USA, said the company can get its newly acquired brands like Airborne and MegaRed supplements into more drugstores and mass-retail channels where it already sells products like Lysol disinfectants and Mucinex decongestants.

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Organochlorines are contained in many familiar products, such as in solvents, pesticides, plastics, disinfectants, forms of packaging and bleached pulp and paper products.

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The machine blends iron, bleach and sodium hydroxide to form a dark purple liquid mixture of ferrate, salt and water that gets metered into the water supply. (The color disappears instantly as it reacts with the water.) Common disinfectants ozone and chlorine can turn the water cloudy or, worse, leave behind harmful chemical by-products.

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