Well not really a question but one shouldn't wash their hands that often because then the germs tend time grow and adapt to the ingredient used to kill them. Kinda like when u get a flu shot, you get it because viruses change and learn to adapt to the older "anti-flu shot". So washing your hands one to many times is also a bad thing
Mandated by meaning is to, quote "issue an authoritative command". In this case, the authoritative command is the "law". The law is mandated and enforces the conservation of energy.