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Antibacterial stainless steel can prevent the spread of superbugs

What a great idea for a kitchen cutting board! Where can I buy one!

If you're cutting directly on steel you're going to spend a lot of time sharpening your knives.

If the antibacterial action is limited to the surface layers, a scratch could go below those layers, and give bugs a safe refuge. And if, as I'd expect, users got too confident about their "safe" working surface, such scratches may go uncleaned for extended periods.

Safer, I'd think, to include these properties in the bulk steel itself.

Yet another product or treatment that could increase the creation of superbugs! Silver has long been known and used to increase hygiene. Silver particles are now found in all kinds of plastic polymers and paint treatments, to do this very thing. But, silver does not kill every type. So, as with the over-use of antibiotics, every time a method of killing bacteria/micro-organisms becomes widespread, it fails to kill some. Those survivors then have a clean field in which to multiply and prosper. Wow! Now we have even tougher superbugs! Do we ever learn?

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I thought I would mention that I have just invented a new Stainless Steel alloy being highly cost competitive and even higher efficiency in killing certain bacteria than silver based products and it is not a copper based alloy eigther, but truly stainless steel 100% through and through. This is a new alloy and not a coating or a laminated material. It can be cast, forged or rolled to sheet very comparible to a 304SS workability and performance. Our first application will probably be faucets and extrusions.