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From Yoghurt Pot To Kitchen Table

PROBIOTICS ARE TO get a life outside of the gut after a North East firm combined with TV’s Aggie MacKenzie to launch a new range of ‘revolutionary’ cleaning products.

The Stockton-based environmental biotechnology company CBio has developed cleaning products that are 132,000 times more effective that traditional harsh cleaning solutions, with the product hitting the shelves of Tesco last month.

Managing director of Cbio, Ben Hoskyns, said: “We’ve all been brought up for decades to believe that the only way to clean is to try and eliminate all bacteria.

“This is impossible, bacteria are everywhere but only a minority of them are harmful. This is about people learning to say ’I accept there are bacteria around – but I only want the good ones.”

Aggie’s Probiotics features a multi-surface cleaner, washing up liquid, toilet cleaner and bathroom cleaner, with good bacteria used to combat the bad instead of destroying all the surface bacteria, and can protect a surface for up to 8 days.

“Antibacterial cleaners kill all bacteria – good as well as bad – which allows bad bacteria to jump back in for up to 24 hours.” Said Aggie MacKenzie.

“Bacteria develop resistance to things designed to kill them, such as antibiotics.Good bacteria provide us with better natural defences.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .