Posted on 11/28/2018 4:02:40 PM PST by Rebelbase
A report said that fecal matter was discovered on every McDonald’s self-service touchscreen swabbed during an investigation in the United Kingdom.
Samples were taken at six McDonald’s locations in London and two in Birmingham. The samples all revealed a contamination of coliforms, which are found in human fecal matter.
“We were all surprised how much gut and fecal bacteria there was on the touchscreen machines. These cause the kind of infections that people pick up in hospitals,” said London Metropolitan University Dr. Paul Matawele, according to The Metro.
“For instance Enterococcus faecalis is part of the flora of gastrointestinal tracts of healthy humans and other mammals. It is notorious in hospitals for causing hospital-acquired infections,” he stated.
Customers first choose their food on the screens before heading to the front to pick up their meals. Often times, they don’t wash their hands or wipe them down with hand sanitizer, the report suggested.
At one branch, a screen was found to have Staphylococcus, or staph. According to the U.S. Food Safety website, some strains can “cause food poisoning when a food handler contaminates food and then the food is not properly refrigerated. Other sources of food contamination include the equipment and surfaces on which food is prepared.”
Matawele told the paper: “Seeing Staphylococcus on these machines is worrying because it is so contagious. It starts around people’s noses, if they touch their nose with their fingers and then transfer it to the touchscreen someone else will get it, and if they have an open cut which it gets into, then it can be dangerous.”
He noted that there are fears about Staphylococcus becoming more resistant to antibiotics.
“However, it is still really dangerous in places like Africa where it can cause toxic shock,” he said.
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I don’t do images. Picture it. McD arches turned 90 degrees counterclockwise. Then another 90 degrees counterclockwise.
Couldn’t have anything to do with muslims not believing in using toilet paper, could it?
They all had fecal matter?
No shirt.
I mean, yes, shirt.
This is what happens when you call cookies biscuits.
Imagine knowing that the tomatoes that you ‘feel’ to see if they are ripe, at the store, have already been ‘felt’ by dozens if not hundreds of other people.
Fecal matter is everywhere stop using all this hand sanitizer and get some natual immunity
is it human fecal matter?
If you knew what they find in hotel beds and linens you would never stay at one again.
You would think that since ‘voice technology’ is so prevalent on cell phones and things like SIRI that they would get rid of this touch screen tech and go with voice.
I’m 64. I am quite sure that germs were everywhere when I was growing up and throughout my life. We never had hand sanitizer or wore mouth masks or gloves. We even coughed into our hands (”Cover your mouth when you cough!”). We had unprotected sex constantly! (Male <-—> Female)
I live and thrive to this day!!
Isn’t is possible that every touchable surface in public places is somehow contaminated by something? If McFecalhands or McStrephands is contaminating the touchscreen, isn’t he also leaving a foul trail wherever he goes?
Hand washing only lasts for 20 minutes. Try again.
Do they like stand on a table and go on the touchscreen?
Those wacky Londoners.
Why I seldom eat out
Reminds me of an old joke.
Two men on bathroom. Black guy uses urinal then starts to walk out passing the sinks.
White guy says, “When I was young, my mother taught me to wash my hands after pissing”.
Black guy says, “When I was young, my mother taught me not to piss on my hands”.
Doorknobs/handles and vending machine keypads, pushbuttons, pull knobs, credit card/atm keypads, soda dispenser buttons, bulk food levers...
I wonder if they noticed any kind of decrease in these diseases when cell phones came along and they removed all or most of the public phone booths? Those things must’ve been crawling.
Whenever you are near enough to someone else that you smell them fart, that means that microscopic bits of fecal matter have gone up into your nose.
Boy, Sheryl Crow gets around.
Good point. I’m going to start wearing rubber gloves whenever I go out!
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