Photo caption: Top L-R: Ms. Georgia Crawford-Williams, Dr. Peter Nelson; Bottom: L-R: Ms. Shannon Dacosta

LifeSavers Wipes, a local product from the team of Dr. Georgia Crawford Williams, Dr. Peter Nelson (Dept. of Chemistry, UWI Mona) and Ms. Shannon Dacosta, has been nominated among the top-three global innovations of 2019-2021. The product is nominated for an International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) and if successful will see the locally developed product joining an exclusive group of past winners that have become game changers in the engineered fabrics industry, including Huggies pull ups, Purex three-in-one laundry sheets, Lysol disinfectant wipes and Procter & Gamble's Swiffers. The line of Lifesavers product, which includes personal hygiene wipes/toilet paper, was designed to indicate to users if they are unwell as it changes in colour in cases where health abnormalities are detected in the urine. The other two innovations nominated alongside LifeSavers wipes are Organic 2.0 — a biodegradable wipe which uses the Nobel Prize winning organocatalysed technology and MDP, a bladder leakage product for men.

University lecturer and radio presenter Georgia Crawford Williams, who acted as team lead of the product along with other local scientists said that she along with her team members were all very proud of the nominations, especially because the product for which she holds the patent was researched and developed right here on the island in labs at The University of the West Indies. “My team members Dr Peter Nelson and Shannon Dacosta are brilliant chemists and our launch product is only the beginning of what we can do together,” an ecstatic Crawford Williams stated.

To vote for LifeSavers Wipes:  https://www.nonwovens-industry.com/idea-reg-achievement-awards