Forensic Dryer Group is the consulting practice behind a three-year forensic investigation into hand dryer contamination, performance failures, and the academic and corporate certification fraud that conceals it.
The record is built to survive scrutiny: 3 years, 226 restrooms across five states, 169 dryers, 462 controlled drying trials, 1,076 culture dishes, and roughly 50,000 bacterial and fungal colonies counted by hand — documented across eleven peer-reviewed preprints, 7 hours of completed documentary video, a filed federal civil complaint, and a 2.2TB complete evidentiary chain-of-custody archive.
Every claim the industry makes was tested against that record. Every claim failed.
Ron Blouch built this case the way he has built everything else: by noticing something others had missed, then going directly at the hard part and refusing to stop until it was finished. He is a career entrepreneur — founder or partner in eleven companies, eight of them successful — with the operator's understanding of how businesses are structured, how players play, and where accountability is meant to live.
That commercial experience forged an unusual businessman's understanding of legal planning and execution. After winning two legal cases pro se against represented parties, he drafted and negotiated business and commercial agreements alongside highly skilled attorneys — learning, in the room and at their level, how sophisticated legal instruments are constructed and where they hold or fail. It is that experience that allowed him to build a federal complaint capable of withstanding professional opposition.
What began as a single contamination test became a three-year forensic undertaking, executed to an elevated evidentiary standard. Ron conducted the fieldwork personally — the sampling, the culturing, the hand-counting of some fifty thousand colonies — and paired it with an exhaustive review of the manufacturers' claims, the certifying bodies' standards, the federal agencies' oversight, and the prior scientific literature. Writing and directing seven hours of documentary video forged the material into a narrative and demanded relentless evaluation of every claim before it was admitted into the stories. The result is a primary-source record, deposited with DOIs at Zenodo (CERN) and the Harvard Dataverse, designed from the outset to be cited, challenged, and relied upon in court — with a comprehensible structure that can be understood by anyone, especially juries.
The investigation's central finding is not merely that hand dryers fail their claims, but that the manufacturers and their certifiers — UL Solutions, NSF, SGS, and SmartEPD — have had the means, and were required, to know for decades. The federal civil suit is engineered to prove exactly that, aimed with precision at the corporate entities and the individuals responsible — and is the roadmap for any other litigants moving against this industry.
Before filing, Ron gave the responsible parties every opportunity to act. He approached Starbucks and Home Depot directly; both declined to engage, even after he traveled to Seattle for a week to break through the corporate firewalls at Starbucks headquarters. He then retained a well-known New York City class-action firm — and, recognizing within two months that the firm intended to take the case while sidelining the person who built it, he fired them and assembled the federal complaint himself.
He was equipped to do so. In addition to his exposure to commercial legal work, he has represented himself against opposing counsel and prevailed decisively twice. The lesson he carried forward was not that representation is unnecessary, but that bad representation is destructive — and that he is fully capable of meeting trained adversaries on their own ground, and of knowing when the professionals are managing him rather than the matter.
This work was done by one investigator unconstrained by authority, free to go where the material led. That independence is not a footnote — it is the source of the work's force. The findings answer to the evidence and nothing else, which is precisely what makes them difficult to dismiss and dangerous to oppose.
A career entrepreneur who has founded or partnered in eleven businesses and helped draft sophisticated commercial agreements alongside excellent counsel — fluent in how companies, contracts, and liability actually work.
Three years and a primary-source evidentiary archive: 226 restrooms, 50,000 hand-counted colonies, eleven preprints with DOIs, 2.2TB of public chain-of-custody data — assembled to be cited, challenged, and relied upon.
Ron works a problem until it is finished. In the damages-and-restitution phase of the dryer problem now underway, he brings that same rigor, a truly unique body of knowledge, and a decisive will to win to every client he serves.
Forensic Dryer Group exists to correct a serious and deliberate harm, and to help the parties injured by it secure the redress they are owed. The dryers must be removed from use. For the legal teams and individuals positioned to make that happen, the complete evidentiary record — and the person who built it — are here to help you win.
contact@forensicdryergroup.comThe findings cited here are documented across eleven journal preprints with DOIs deposited at Zenodo (CERN) and the Harvard Dataverse. 2.2TB of publicly available chain-of-custody data is hosted at Backblaze and Cloudflare. Full data and sources at www.handdryerstudy.com; the complaints at handdryerlegal.com.