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Posted on 10/19/2012 7:56:07 PM PDT by Daffynition
A Florida student found that the ice at fast food restaurants is actually dirtier than the toilet water at the same establishment.
The student, 12-year-old Jasmine Roberts, hypothesized that the ice at fast food joints was probably dirtier than the toilets.
So she went to five fast food restaurants and collected samples.
She ordered cups of ice and put them in sterile beakers. She also went into bathrooms, flushed the toilet once, and collected a sample.
The findings were pretty disturbing.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
It probably is, but then a lot of restaurants and grocery stores are not inspected on a regular basis, only yearly if even that often unless there have been complaints or incidents of food borne illness. You would think health department inspections are frequent but they are not in most cases.
When I worked in convenience stores and grocery stores way back when in the ‘80’s, health department inspections were random. When I worked as a convenience store manager we had a deli, hand dipped ice cream, a self serve soda fountain and a hot dog machine. On the few occasions I even saw an inspector, some were very thorough and some were not but most would find at least one thing to tick you for, something like a wet mop not properly hung by the sanitary sink. I did one time get a 100% clean inspection. My supervisor said that in all her years, mine was a first : )
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not MINE, thank you very much! I'm not THAT stupid to use my OWN toothbrush when I'm cleaning the toilets. No sirreee sir!
Congrats ...you’re a 100%er!
Back some time ago, we owned a small gourmet food market, that featured quality meats and cheeses and assorted homemade [excuse me, now you have to call it *homestyle*] deli items. The inspector came, about yearly, and if he couldn’t find something to site, he’d nit-pick...to find something to prove the reason for his existence.
Third or fourth year in to his inspections, he decided the maple butcher wooden cutting block, we used to cut the meat on was *unsanitary* b/c the wood surface could not *ever* [his words] be truly clean [even though it was bleached daily, to within an inch of its life]. We replaced it with a code compliant synthetic plastic board [nylon? I can’t recall exactly] , at no small expense ....and a year later, it was deemed to harbor more germs than wood.* A *sweetspot* developed on the plastic...and with the naked eye you could see it was beginning to deteriorate. I’m sure tiny fibers were being released. After the inspector was confronted with the news that the plastic board was worse than the wood, he declared that we could have a wood board again. Luckily, we never threw out the old board. The plastic board was murder on the blades of the knives. Heh.
*Researchers were surprised, however, to find that when they applied large quantities of disease-causing bacteria (those commonly found in raw meat and seafood) to both wood and plastic cutting boards, in the end the wood boards were actually more sanitary than the plastic boards. One study reported that more than 99 percent of the bacteria applied to the wood cutting board died within three minutes, while the bacteria on the plastic cutting board actually multiplied.
It isn’t clear exactly why this is the case. Even after hand washing both the wood and plastic cutting boards with hot soapy water, the plastic boards still had more bacteria present, compared to the wood boards. One problem with plastic cutting boards may lie in the nicks and gouges commonly caused by a knife striking the surface of the cutting board. When high levels of bacteria lodged in these crevices, they were not removed from the plastic board by general hand-washing methods. Hand washing effectively removed the bacteria from the surface of the wood cutting board. Wood also appears to have natural germ-killing properties which are not present in plastic.
[http://www.newhampshirebowlandboard.com/article_butcherplastic.php]
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry accidentally drops GF's toothbrush into the toilet and then doesn't tell her, Jerry cannot bring himself to kiss his girlfriend, Jenna.
Every ice machine has cleaning instructions printed in plain view.
The reason I call BS on this story is because if you look you will
always find bacteria. Even on all garden veggies unless they are washed
properly. Rarely are they washed properly and nearly impossible to wash
right each and every time.
It's hype to sell a story. ""They Say"" is over hyped and over rated.
We're all gonna die from Ice contamination OMG!
I got inspections much more frequently in the military than in the civilian world.
/johnny
The plaque between your teeth harbors a huge culture of pathogens, which is a good reason to only use sodium bicarbonate to brush your teeth.
Tommy? Is that you?
Tom: You can tell who's running the country by how much clothes people wear, see?
Dick: Do you mean that some people can afford more clothes on, and some people have... less on? Is that what you mean?
Tom: That's right.
Dick: I don't understand.
Tom: See, the ordinary people, you'd say that the ordinary people are the less-ons.
Dick: So who's running the country?
Tom: The morons.
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