Hygienic Coatings www.pra-world.com/hygienic-coatings

Welcome to the PRA web pages for the Hygienic Coatings Special Interest Group

Pages on this site were last updated on 30 June 2007.

What's New

• A number of items have been added to the News section.

• The proceedings from the Third International Conference on Hygienic Coatings & Surfaces, Paris, March, 2005 are now available to purchase.

• The revised research proposal on Hygienic Surface Functionality and Testing is now available in pdf format. Click to view.

• There is now a link to the section on the PRA website - Technology/ Paint Performance Testing/ Hygienic Coatings. Click to view.

• The Hygienic Coatings Message Board is active again following our move to a new server. Please use this board to post any feedback relating to this Hygienic Coatings Group which you are willing to share with other members. section.
• A message has been posted on the Discussion Board which requires feedback from members (click link to view).
• The minutes and presentations from the meeting of the Hygienic Coatings Special Interest Group (8 June 2004) are now available on the website.
• Proceedings from the Second Hygienic Coatings Conference (Florida, January 2004) are now available. Please click link.
• The minutes of the Hygienic Coatings Special Interest Group held on 26 January, 2004 in Orlando, Florida are now available on the website.

• A article by Ken Johns entitled 'From Fish Farm to Fork' is now available for download in pdf format.
• A paper by Ken Johns entitled 'The Rot Sets In' is available for download in pdf fomat.
• A number of PRA publications are relevant to the Hygienic Coatings Special Coatings Interest Group. For more information and to order, click the appropriate link.
• 1. PRA Select: Photocatalysis, volumes 1 and 2 - selected abstracts from PRA's World Surface Coatings Abstracts (WSCA) and other sources, with expert commentary.
  2. WSCA Microbial Alert- 12 monthly issues of recent relevant abstracts from PRA's WSCA database.
• To order proceedings from the First Hygienic Coatings Conference (Brussels, July 2002), please click link.
• For further details on the Hygienic Coatings Special Interest Group click here.
• The following three papers by Ken Johns are now available for download in pdf format:
  1. "Hygienic Coatings: From Farm to Fork to Fluoro Finishes" (~76kb) was presented at the Fluorine in Coatings V Conference, Florida, in January 2003.
  2. "The Severe Climate for Hygienic Coatings" (~203kb) was presented at the 7th Nuremberg Conference in April 2003.
  3. "Hygienic Coatings: The Next Generation" (~144kb). This paper is reproduced by kind permission of Surface Coatings sectionInternational, and was presented at the First Global Conference on Hygienic Coatings, Brussels, in July 2002.
• A report, including some of the presentations from the AGM of the Special Interest Group, is available on the website.

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