... instinctively smarter than his master!
This study was conducted in the U.K. ... but includes several well-established U.S. fast food restaurants ... and raises interesting questions concerning sanitation worldwide.
Posted on 06/05/2013 4:50:29 AM PDT by Zakeet
The ice served in six out of ten of Britain’s most popular high street restaurants contains more bacteria than the water found in their toilets, an investigation by The Mail on Sunday has found.
Scientific tests have shown that ice from branches of McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, Starbucks, Cafe Rouge and Nando’s all had higher levels of bacteria than samples of water taken from their lavatory bowls. Experts say it could be due to them being cleaned more often than the ice machines.
None of the samples found presented an immediate health danger, but four contained such high levels of microbes the restaurants should be considered a ‘hygiene risk’, according to a Government-accredited laboratory.
The samples from McDonald’s, KFC, Burger King and Nando’s all suggested ‘poor hygiene’ over their ice, the laboratory said.
In the cases of Nando’s and Burger King, the levels of bacteria in ice were more than double than that which the scientists said they expect to see in drinking water.
For the tests, staff were asked to provide a sample of ice in a sterile bag. A sample of water in the restaurant toilet was also taken by an accredited environmental health practitioner.
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This study was conducted in the U.K. ... but includes several well-established U.S. fast food restaurants ... and raises interesting questions concerning sanitation worldwide.
The illegals, al Qaeda and Democrats
just DO NOT CARE.
This is another reason the traitors in the
US Congress deliberately left the borders open.
A vast majority of people refuse to wash their hands after a bathroom visit.
Don't mention the WAteR!
Switch to Brawndo, “the Thirst Mutilator” — it’s got what plants crave, and has electrolytes!
Houston has known about slime in the ice machine for years thanks to MARVIN ZINDLER - EYEWITNESS NEWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUqlbjxznZA
YUCK.
This is totally meaningless... There’s more bacteria, but it’s not necessarily HARMFUL bacteria like you’ll find in fecal matter. Hell, for every cell in your body you are carrying thousands of foreign bacteria around... This is just alarmist garbage news.
Part of the idiotic newfound fascination with the British tabloid press on FR.
Much of it is articles designed to appeal to stupid people, such as this one.
It is designed to appeal to those who will get government to do something.
I had a surgeon tell me that is you ran a cotton swap over the walls if the average hospital room it would be covered with all sorts of pathogenic bacteria.
In related news, IIRC, cheese, yoghurt and various other foods are loaded with “bacteria”.
Our county health department told me that all of the springs and shallow wells and some deep wells being used by homeowners in the county had some “bacteria” but were not a health threat.
A local restaurant where my sister held her wedding rehearsal dinner was recently on one of those “fix my restaurant” cable shows. The bacteria in their ice maker was about a 14 on a 1-10 scale. Have not ordered anything anywhere containing ice since I saw that.
A girl performed this experiment several years ago and concluded the same thing. Toilet water has fewer bacteria than ice machine ice.
I quit eating at fast-food joints, a few months ago. The taco-shell licker sealed it for me the other day, and now, this. Yuk.
Marvin Zindler. Eye Witness News.
I would rather clean ice machines than toilets.
Another Check out periodical article.
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