TIDBITS for the day

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"Computer keyboards contained five times as many bugs as a lavatory on average."

"Meanwhile tests on shoppers’ bags, by the University of Arizona, revealed half contained traces of E.coli, the food poisoning bug that killed over 20 people in Europe over the last month."




50% of all plastic shopping bags tested had POO residue on them. WTF

Something to remember next time you check out

[JohnnyD]

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"Meanwhile tests on shoppers’ bags, by the University of Arizona, revealed half contained traces of E.coli, the food poisoning bug that killed over 20 people in Europe over the last month."

Different strain of E. coli as the European version. Just more sensationalist garbage to get people to read more nonsense and sell more hand sanitizer. Just about everything has E. coli on it, but because we are continually exposed to it throughout our lives, we develop a resistance to most strains.

On the other hand, with everyone disinfecting everything that kids come into contact with and continually using antibacterial soap, we'll soon be faced with bacteria that makes MRSA look like a walk in the park... and they'll be no antibiotic to stop it.

[flyvice11787]

Just make sure you wash your hands well before eating. A good 20 seconds before you start rinsing.

One of the things that's an easy food safety tip that's stressed over and over in food safety class......a very long 8 hours today .

[Raven]

use alcohol to disinfect the keyboards

washing hands without using a bristle brush doesn't get the bacteria lying between the dermal ridges....that show up as a finger print.... you gotta scrub hard

[FishermanTim]

Heck, you could scrub and scrub and scrub until you bled and still never get rid of all the bacteria on your body!

We hear of staph infections in hospitals, but what we fail to recognize is that our bodies CARRY the staph infection bacteria evertwhere we go. It's only a real problem when it gets introduced into the bloodstream.

As for antibacterial overuse and complete sterilization of our environment, I'm fine with that. Keep in mind that as long as your own natural defenses havn't been ruined by this practice, you should be able to handle a lot more than these walking petri dishes!

Listen to these bacteria-alarmist and you will spot a trend....."My little Johnny caught a cold at a friends house, so I make sure they wash their hands all the time, and then he got the flu from "somewhere" and he was home sick for a week. Then his sister got the same thing."

Overuse of these "sterilization" practices has made people put "the cart befoere the horse" and think that they are fighting an epidemic when in reality they are probably starting one!