Trial for MRSA cleaning agent refused

A NEW hygiene product being used by the British NHS to fight MRSA and C difficile will not go on trial here due to a lack of scientific evidence, Health Minister Mary Harney has said.

The cleaning agent, developed by a British company after five years of trials and studies, is being piloted by the NHS following a successful study conducted at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 2006 which saw MRSA reduced by 50% through the treatment of just 5% of a ward’s high-contact surfaces.

Labour spokesperson on Europe and Human Rights Joe Costello said the response he had received as to whether or not the product would be used, was “very limp”.