Nigel, your confusion knows no bounds. Iains, please tell me where among all that verbiage there is any mention of antibiotics. None of the substances referred to are antibiotics. TCP is a "therapeutic biocide" but is not an antibiotic. There is a difference. Antibiotics are not used on carcases, therefore there is no opportunity for bacteria to develop resistance to them in that context. Developing resistance to antibiotics takes place in an environment in which antibiotics are present. In fact, mutations for resistance may already be present in bacterial populations, but the conditions required for their selection over non-resistance can take place only in an environment containing antibiotic. Feel free to cling on to this and feel free to continue posting your gleefully-brainless insults. But you really don't get this and you are making a fool of yourself. You both need to clarify the difference between antimicrobials (hot water, soap, hand gels, Dettol, Harpic, chlorine, Savlon, etc) and the far narrower category, antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance can't be brought about by non-antibiotic antimicrobials. Resistance to those non-antibiotic antimicrobials can, on the other hand. You are both resorting to an unhelpful conflation.