Re: [ ::: ♥Keep_Mailing♥ ::: ]™ Anybody for eating out today?

VERY NICE

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Hitesh Shah <confusdesi@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's The Most Germ-Laden Item In A Restaurant?
> It's something you touch every time you go in a restaurant. And you handle
> it first, so it's sort of like a germ-laden appetizer. It's a bacteria
> magnet that's apt to have far more microbes on it than a toilet seat!
>
> Give up?
>
> It's the menu.
>
> If you were planning to make a germ-transfer device, you couldn't do better
> than a restaurant menu. Everyone touches it, and it's almost never cleaned.
>
> Dr. Chuck Gerba, a researcher from the University of Arizona, went
> undercover in three different states taking swab samples from frequently
> touched restaurant areas and items such as salt and pepper shakers, chairs,
> lemon slices and menus. And menus won the first prize, with a typical
> bacteria count of 185,000. To put that in perspective, Dr. Gerba said that's
> "about 100 times more bacteria" than is found on a typical toilet seat.
>
> Other testing done by the New York University Microbiology Department found
> germy menus as well, but other results may surprise you. Ketchup bottles
> were relatively clean. But half the salt and pepper shakers tested were
> contaminated. And the bathroom faucets and door knobs turned out to be the
> cleanest surface of all the places tested.
>
> But the award goes to the lemon wedge. Believe it or not, half of the ones
> examined were contaminated with fecal matter. That might make iced tea the
> most dangerous thing on the menu!
>
> Experts advise the same thing before EVERY SINGLE meal. "Go wash your hands
> before you eat!" and I would add -- and after you read the menu!
>
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