Friday, January 13, 2012

Another Los Angeles Lesson: GERM ALERT! Beware of Shopping Carts!



















Next time you go to the supermarket, you may want to wear some gloves and place protective gear on your kids. At the very least, bring some wipes to clean the shopping cart handles. Turns out that those shopping carts are full of feces, germs, and bacteria. Some researchers swabbed shopping cart handles in numerous stores. Out of the 100 carts examined, 72 of them had fecal matter. A closer look at those samples containing fecal matter also revealed that 50 percent of them were contaminated with E. coli. What is wrong with people?!?!?! Don't they wash their hands?!














They found more bacteria in these shopping carts than what they find in the restroom of the supermarket. At least we know that the restrooms are cleaned properly, but don't bother with those carts! UGH!!!














Don't be surprised if some high-end market like Gelson's, opens up an area where you can push a cart through a wash prior to your use of it. Hey, that's not a bad concept.








Until the next lesson, Stay Down!




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