John Downey, a veteran of more than 45 years in the cleaning industry, is the executive director of the Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI). He can be reached at john@ciriscience.org. To view CIRI’s official guidance document, “Guidance for Decontamination of the Built Environment: Cleaning, Disinfection, Worker Protection, and Post Cleaning and Remediation Assessment,” click here.
The Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI) was founded to communicate science-based technical information and peer-reviewed research findings about cleaning and restoration of the indoor environment.
