New law ensures schools are scrubbed with safer products

Summer custodial work has sometimes left harsher side effects than sore muscles for Don Dixon.

Dixon, who works summers doing custodial work in the Champaign school district, said one of the cleaning solutions he used one summer at Westview Elementary School produced blood blisters on his skin.

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