| abstract |
Floor covering products, such as carpets, carpet tiles, floor mats, and the like, which comprise very specific antimicrobial adhesive latex formulations therein are provided. Such formulations comprise, as the only antimicrobial active ingredients, certain inorganic antimicrobial compounds, such as, preferably, silver-containing ion-exchange, glass, and/or zeolite compounds. Such latexes exhibit excellent adhesive and antimicrobial qualities and, since they do not contain any added organic bactericides (and thus no bactericide VOCs), do not release any such organic bactericides upon exposure to high processing temperatures. |