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Nature Chemical Biology 1, 349 (1 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/nchembio1205-349

Coming clean

Antibiotics are now commonly found in many consumer cleansing products, including hand soap, body wash and dishwashing soap. In the United States in 2000, a survey showed that 45% of all consumer soaps, and more than 75% of liquid soaps, contained an antibiotic (Am.