Posted on 03/02/2011 8:10:47 PM PST by Innovative
Researchers from the University of Arizona swabbed shopping cart handles in four states looking for bacterial contamination. Of the 85 carts examined, 72 percent turned out to have a marker for fecal bacteria. The researchers took a closer look at the samples from 36 carts and discovered Escherichia coli, more commonly known as E. coli, on 50 percent of them - along with a host of other types of bacteria.
Shopping cart handles aren't the only thing you need to worry about when you go to the local supermarket, Gerba added. In other research, he's found that reusable shopping bags that aren't regularly washed turn into bacterial swamps. "It's like wearing the same underwear every day," Gerba said.
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The result: bags full of bacteria, or you need to wash them every time and how much does that contribute to energy usage and "global warming" (since they believe in it).
Once upon a time they promoted plastic bags, to save the trees... now they ban it "for environmental reasons", resulting in more harm to the environment and more dead trees, because you either have to keep washing them, or pay for using paper bags.
Note to self: Do not suck on reusable grocery bag.
I always make sure to use the other 50%!
I’m receiving a vision...string...macrame...oh! String bags, like what shoppers used decades ago. Washable and reusable.
Some entrepreneur will make a bundle with that idea.
**** shopping cart handles in four states looking for bacterial contamination. Of the 85 carts examined, 72 percent turned out to have a marker for fecal bacteria.***
Probably from babies or toddlers using the seat for more than just riding.
The idiot liberal city council of L.A. already banned the use of plastic bags starting May 2011. Paper bags deteriorate in the rain faster than plastic, and harder to break down over plastic.
Di-vers-it-tie is are strenf!
String bags
Not with the price of cotton going through the roof.
Oh, the horror, macrame sweat shops!
Bigger note to self, NEVER NEVER fold out that child carry tray to use as a grocery shelf.
those people that push the carts should also clean the part where your hands go, ahhh haha!!! OR better yet...
Someone could come up a mobile cart washing machine(like an automated car wash), once a month the carts get washed, this company is contracted to wash all the carts in front of anywhere that sells food etc.. grocery stores, Wal-marts, etc.. with anti-bacterial soap in a reusable contained eco-friendly unit of course. ;)
Actually, I was thinking more along the line of using all that hemp stringy-matter left over from Medical marijuana facilities.
E. Coli is everywhere. There are various strains most of which are harmless. Wash your hands. Wash any reusable bags. It is not as if people are dropping dead from shopping cart plague.
We’re all gonna DIE!!!
I like it! So creative!
and dryer lint found behind your local washiteria!
American ingenuity can’t be beat!
...or lick shopping cart handles.
My W-M has anti bacterial wipes at the entry to the store. I always wipe the cart handles and never use the basket part where poopy little babies ride.
Or set your purse in it.....then put your purse on your countertop or table when you get home.....
Spodefly’s Tips for Safe Grocery Shopping:
1.) Don’t put your food where a baby’s ass was 10 minutes ago.
2.) If possible, use the “semi” carts that don’t have child seats.
3.) Refuse to be PC. Forget the reusable cloth bags. At best they have moisture from condensation fermenting since your last grocery trip. At worst ... you don’t want to know. Use plastic bags. They are recyclable.
4.) Use the free Handi-wipes available at most grocery front doors.
5.) If you hear someone coughing and sniffling on the next aisle, skip that aisle for a few minutes and let Typhoid Mary clear the area.
6.) Wash your hands and face after you get home.
Darn, You would think of that!
I knew I liked those “little” carts that have no baby seat in them.
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