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Trial Number 3

Client Number 321

Project Number 1

Trial Purpose:

To evaluate supplied aerosol products for manual all purpose cleaning

Date Run:

06/02/2009

Experiment Procedure:

Preweighed ceramic, painted steel and plastic coupons were coated with Hucker's Soil Formulation (Jif Creamy Peanut Butter 9.2%, Salted Butter 9.2%, Arrowhead Mills stone ground wheat flour 9.2%, Egg Yolk 9.2%, Evaporated milk 13.8%, Distilled water 45.8%, Printer's ink with boiled linseed oil 0.9%, Shaws saline solution 2.7%) using a hand held swab and allowed to dry for 24 hours at room temperature. The contaminated coupons were weighed again to determine the amount of soil added.

Three coupons were placed into a Gardner Straight Line Washability unit. A Kimberly Clark Reinforced paper towel was attached to the cleaning sled and soaked with 5-7 sprays of cleaning solutions. Each coupon was sprayed 7-10 times with the same cleaning solution. The solution was allowed to penetrate for 30 seconds followed by cleaning in the SLW unit for 20 cycles (~33 seconds). At the end of the cleaning, coupons were wiped once with a dry paper towel. Final weights were recorded and efficiencies were calculated and recorded.

Trial Results:

Each of the supplied products and industry product were effective in removing the Hucker's Soil with a manual wiping action. The table lists the amount of soil initially added and the amount remaining after cleaning and the product efficiency for each coupon cleaned.

Cleaner Initial wt Final wt % Removed
A00166 Ceramic 0.1952 0.0026 98.67
  0.0928 0.0000 100.00
  0.2240 0.0172 92.32
A00166 Painted Steel 0.0943 0.0142 84.94
  0.0963 0.0325 66.25
  0.1284 0.0308 76.01
A00166 Steel 0.1064 0.0103 90.32
  0.0620 0.0053 91.45
  0.0753 0.0047 93.76
SD-20 Ceramic 0.0897 -0.0010 101.11
  0.0558 0.0014 97.49
  0.0831 0.0064 92.30
SD-20 Painted Steel 0.1034 0.0033 96.81
  0.1160 0.0047 95.95
  0.1167 0.0146 87.49
SD-20 Steel 0.0455 0.0020 95.60
  0.1178 0.0036 96.94
  0.1113 0.0124 88.86
Mr. Jinx Ceramic 0.1126 0.0026 97.69
  0.1425 -0.0013 100.91
  0.0762 0.0050 93.44
Mr. Jinx Painted Steel 0.0576 0.0063 89.06
  0.0968 0.0076 92.15
  0.1271 0.0060 95.28
Mr. Jinx Steel 0.1187 0.0033 97.22
  0.0962 0.0034 96.47
  0.0341 0.0012 96.48
Formula 409 Ceramic 0.1167 -0.0073 106.26
  0.1321 -0.0006 100.45
  0.1817 0.0048 97.36

Success Rating:

A follow up test, usually based on company input.

Conclusion:

Five products removed over 85% of the Hucker’s soil from the three surfaces using manual wiping. The Amrep Aspire product removed just under 90% and was the fourth best cleaner, outperforming the Amrep Misty product.

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