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HYGENICOMP’ Ss JASON Janetti cleans a computer keyboard during routine general maintenance.
~ Cleaning also prevents the computer from becoming clogged with dirt, which can lead to the
transfer of germs from one person to another.

“COMPUTER USERS experiencing .

~. headaches, fatigue, sore throats and
“dry eyes may be able to target the
culprit, — :

“By Jan Noble
News Reporter:

Their dirty computers.
_ North Vancouver resident Doug
- Taylor. is. president : of .Vancouver-
-based Hygenicomp, a company that:

.,. Specializes in . cleaning « electronic -

work environments.

Taylor ‘said’ people eating and
drinking at their computers, finger
‘oils, makeup and the dreaded elec-
tronic static. discharge, a grey soot-
like discharge emitted from comput-

"er monitors, ‘all contribute to dirty

“equipment and an unhealthy, work-"
ing environment. |.

“We have found: dust balls. the
‘size of tennis balls inside the central .
‘processing unit and everything from
” paper clips to bran muffins :in the
: keyboards,” said Hygenicomp tech-
~ nical supervisor Mike Waugh:

- Taylor added indoor air quality is

very poor.

The average person breaths in 35
“pounds of air each day and five mil-
lion dust particles.

~ “Someone who works on’a com-
puter will breathe in 10 times that
,, Amount,” said Taylor. ‘

‘Bacteria, biological” pollutants,

‘and ‘the common ‘cold : circulate

around the office on the dust and

through shared pieces of equipment
like: keyboards, telephones fax
machines.

But a simple cleaning won't do.
Water and electronics. don’t mix,
said Taylor.

“Common cleaners can’ be very
volatile around computers and can
create a more serious problem — a

computer that does not work,” he
said.

Hygenicomp uses an ethanol-
based solution that is environimnen-
tally friendly and been developed —
especially for the electronics indus-.
try, said Taylor.

A complete cleaning ofa com- .

puter runs around $45, and an air-

. filtering system costs about $35.

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