FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DATE:

Clean Hands Save Lives

Contact:

City, State- (Name of Organization or Company) and the Clean Hands Coalition celebrates “Clean Hands Week,” September 21-27, 2008.

Handwashing is the single most important act you can do to prevent getting sick and making others sick. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 5,000 people die each year from food borne illness. 78 million become ill and between 79,000 and 96,000 die from hospital infections each year. A direct link to many of these deaths is poor handwashing.

Handwashing is important for food safety, disease prevention and personal health. Wash your hands; before you eat and after you use the bathroom, before, during and after preparing food, after handling animals or animal waste, after playing sports, after changing diapers, and anytime your hands are dirty. Use soap and water, scrub, rinse for 20 seconds and dry.

Join (Name of Organization or Company) to reduce illness. Practice handwashing, make it a habit and prevent illness and death. (Insert any Planned Activity).

For further information contact: Contact Name, Address, Telephone, E-mail.

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