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Home » Authors » Clifford Zlotnik

Clifford Zlotnik

Cliff Zlotnik, a 35-year veteran and pioneer of the disaster restoration industry, is president of Unsmoke-Microban Systems, a disaster restoration products, equipment and training company. For more information, go to www.unsmoke.com.

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Restoration Industry Remembers Jim Barrett, CR #2

Clifford Zlotnik Pete Consigli
April 22, 2017
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A foundational member of the restoration industry. Jim is fondly remembered by those who knew him and especially those who rose in the ranks of the industry alongside him. 
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Is It Science, Junk Science or Just Plain Fiction?

Mike Kerner Clifford Zlotnik
May 5, 2009
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Starting a conversation with a silly question can be interesting. For example, let’s suppose I ask you, “Is drinking water safe?” or “Are plastic buckets and toothbrushes dangerous?”
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Clifford Zlotnik Joseph Hughes Jr.
March 11, 2008
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The remediation of a bell tower presumed contaminated by pathogenic fungi (Histoplasma capsulatum); a multidisciplinary approach.
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The Pittsburgh Protocol: An Alternative Approach to Microbial Remediation

Mike Kerner Clifford Zlotnik
March 1, 2007
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I have never been comfortable with many of the remediation procedures recommended for mold remediation; they just didn’t feel right, either intuitively or instinctively. But these procedures have to be right; after all, they had been developed by people with impressive initials after their names that were much smarter and much more experienced than I.
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