what's the different between them? or they are interchangeable?
Sanitation? hygiene?
No, they are not interchangeable. To quote dictionary.com...
"Sanitary refers more especially to conditions affecting health or measures for guarding against infection or disease: 'to insure sanitary conditions in preparing food'. Hygienic is applied to whatever concerns the care of the body and the promotion of health: 'to live in hygienic surroundings with plenty of fresh air'."
"Sanitary refers more especially to conditions affecting health or measures for guarding against infection or disease: 'to insure sanitary conditions in preparing food'. Hygienic is applied to whatever concerns the care of the body and the promotion of health: 'to live in hygienic surroundings with plenty of fresh air'."
I think a basic rule of thumb is that "hygiene" typically refers to one's practices to keep oneself clean, and "sanitation" typically refers to one's practices to keep everything else clean. The two can overlap... if you don't wash your hands, it's both unhygienic and unsanitary, the former because you're keeping yourself dirty and the latter because you can pass germs to others as a result.
- Kef
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