The results show that although the cleaners do kill a lot of bacteria, it does not kill all bacteria. Based on the results I would say that on the staphylococcus aureus table showed that the Lysol treatment was one of the least effective along with the Pinesol. The most effective would be a tie between Spic-n-Span and Ethanol. Soap falls somewhere in the middle between effective and ineffective. The results for enterobacter aerogenes table also had a wide variety of results. The two products that did the worst was Spic-n-Span, and Soap. The two products that did the best were Ethanol and Pinesol. Lysol fell in between the two but generally speaking Lysol was also ineffective.
Although this is what I find was effective or ineffective, I would…show more content… This could be useful information to hospitals or any other public institution where it is imperative to keep bacteria from growing and spreading. Each group consisted of two people and there were eleven groups so I think in that sense this was a good experiment because there were a lot of replications of the same experiment. However, we did not get the same results every time so there must have been a lot of variability. Which leads me to believe that once again not everyone who conducted the experiment was diligent enough for us to have consistent results. This could be due to where they dropped each of the solutions, they may have not had it far enough away from the other solutions. They also may have forgotten to press down on the paper disk to the agar, so the disk might have moved while it was being incubated. Also there could have been inconsistent amounts of solution on each paper disk. Some might have had more solution compared with others which may have caused a difference in the amount of bacteria colonies that grew. I would suggest for this study to sanitize the tongs and the hole puncher prior to the experiment. I would also recommend a better seal for the tops of the different containers of solutions, instead of the tin foil, because it could have been
