Antimicrobials are important for helping ensure safe and efficient industrial production and worker safety. Microbes can grow and thrive in many industrial settings, such as paper production and food processing, causing disruptions in production and serious safety hazards. Countless industries from manufacturing to gas extraction rely on antimicrobials to help control microbial contamination of their processes.
Antimicrobials play other important roles behind the scenes. Cooling towers, used to regulate heating, ventilation, and air conditioning in apartment and office buildings, hospitals, and other large facilities, are especially prone to microbial growth. If unchecked and untreated, these microbe-infested waters can disperse into the air we breathe causing sickness. Bacteria can also cause slime buildup within the systems resulting in malfunctions. This is why cooling water systems are typically treated with antimicrobials to help kill dangerous bacteria that could make us sick and cause costly damage.
