A study at Birmingham’s Selly Oak Hospital (HEJ – November 2008, January 2009) has shown that surfaces made with Cupright copper “kill a wide range of potentially harmful microorganisms”.
Led by Professor Tom Elliott, a consultant microbiologist and deputy medical director at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, the study reported a 90 to 95 per cent elimination of those organisms, “even after a busy day on a medical ward, with items touched by numerous people”. Cupright International manufactures and supplies hardware products and offers a coating service designed specifically to combat infections transmitted by hand-tosurface, and surface-to-hand, contact. Clinical trials have shown products featuring Cupright at all key touch points will kill “a normal hand transfer” of 100,000 MRSA cells in under 15 minutes.
