Fecal bacteria found on 72 percent of shopping carts

[Bloodshot Scott]

A University of Arizona researcher says you may want to grab one of those disinfectant wipes right before you grab a grocery cart. Professor Charles Gerba, the lead researcher, swabbed the handles of 85 carts in four states for bacterial contamination.

Gerba says 72% of the carts had a positive marker for fecal bacteria. When they examined some of the samples, they found Escherichia coli, also known as E. coli, on half of them.

Researchers say they actually found more fecal bacteria on grocery cart handles than you would typically find in a bathroom, mainly because bathrooms are disinfected more often than shopping carts

Full story: Carts one of dirtiest places in grocery store, study says



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[Galactic]

Total bullshit. HAH! See what I did there.........eh, never mind.......

 

[Skankfunk]

that's why i always bring sanitizer

 

[anomaly]

It's not the grocery store that's dirty. It's the nasty people who don't wash their hands after #2!

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

It's not the grocery store that's dirty. It's the nasty people who don't wash their hands after #2!

Pretty sure it's babies with their shitty ass diapers sitting in the carts. Still pretty nasty. At my local chains they have wipes for your cart handle available, which is nice.

 

[Facetious]

Really, 72%? That's outrageous! Most of it has to be bird shit. :surprise:

Just remember, if you don't have anything to sanitize with, do not get your hands near any mucous membrane(s) until after you get home and scrub a dub dub.

A thorough cleaning of my steering wheel, shifter, door handles etc might not be such a bad idea now that I think of it.

Next thing you know I'll be the next Howard Hughes.:eek:

 

[luis1972]

:ban::ban::ban::ban:

 

[Frank Fire]

I have to say i used to work in a retail and the carts are always dirty from people that do not wash there hands and some people even put a dirty diapers in a shopong cart

 

[Hot Mega]

Pretty soon the most sanitary place in the world will be a toilet bowl. WASH YOUR FUCKING HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But but...if you're using enough toilet paper to wipe, HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU GETTING SHIT ON YOUR MITTS ANYWAY??? Maybe hands aren't the only thing people are failing to wash enough.:eeew:

 

[Frank Fire]

Pretty soon the most sanitary place in the world will be a toilet bowl. WASH YOUR FUCKING HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They said that the toilet bowl is more sanitary then the shopping carts

 

[Hot Mega]

They said that the toilet bowl is more sanitary then the shopping carts

Toilet bowl or bathroom? Though a toilet bowl is discovered to be more sanitary than a shopping cart handle, I doubt it's already the most sanitary place in the world.

(Is anal fisting really this popular??):1orglaugh

 

[Frank Fire]

Toilet bowl or bathroom? Though a toilet bowl is discovered to be more sanitary than a shopping cart handle, I doubt it's already the most sanitary place in the world.

(Is anal fisting really this popular??):1orglaugh

they said on a special last nite that the whole bathroom is more sanitary then the shoppong carts

 

[TheOrangeCat]

It has always amused me that dogs are banned from supermarkets, bars etc and children are welcome, because dirtiest, most unsanitary thing on the planet is a child. They are grubby, sticky, leaky, drooling germ and dirt-attracting machines.

I'll bet most of that trolley shit came from the filthy extremities of rug rats.

 

[Member442]

:eeew: that's gross but not really surprising. How often are you in abathroom and watch someone leave and not wash their hands? The worst is when you then see that person in the veggie and fruit section picking up and down a pepper or something looking for the best one.:throwup:

 

[izabelplayer]

i can believe its true. so many people touch the carts everyday. who knows where their hands came from. i like to not think about it and wash my hands afterwards. if i think about i will probably never go shopping and just order my groceries online.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Really, 72%? That's outrageous! Most of it has to be bird shit. :surprise:

Just remember, if you don't have anything to sanitize with, do not get your hands near any mucous membrane(s) until after you get home and scrub a dub dub.

A thorough cleaning of my steering wheel, shifter, door handles etc might not be such a bad idea now that I think of it.

Next thing you know I'll be the next Howard Hughes.:eek:

Yeah every time I hop in the ride I always think about how dirty my steering wheel is. No doubt the first thing I always do when entering the rez is wash my hands. If I just go to a couple golf stores and handle clubs for a little while you can literally see the dirt after a quick wash.

It has always amused me that dogs are banned from supermarkets, bars etc .

Tell that to a muzlum cabbie :drool2:

 

[vodkazvictim]

It's kids shitting on the seats, or birds shitting on the trolleys.

 

[bahodeme]

:eeew: that's gross but not really surprising. How often are you in abathroom and watch someone leave and not wash their hands? The worst is when you then see that person in the veggie and fruit section picking up and down a pepper or something looking for the best one.:throwup:

So I guess those people we see at the supermarket picking the grapes & berries and then eating them are getting more than they bargain for. :eeew:

 

[Bearded_Menace]

Yeah, this is one of those things that you know exist out there that is hard to forget about once it has been implanted into you brain. If you think this is bad, try looking up the statistic that says that there is more urine on a toothpick in a restaurant than there is in the urinal. Lets not forget the one that says that there is a one in nine chance that you are gonna shake hands with someone who just masturbated and didn't wash there hands today. My personal favorite is the one that says that you inhale over a cubic liter of ass gas every day.:eeew:

People I implore you, wash your goddamn hands. Thirty seconds isn't gonna kill you. On the contrary, you could live longer.

 

[Ulysses31]

Yeah, this is one of those things that you know exist out there that is hard to forget about once it has been implanted into you brain. If you think this is bad, try looking up the statistic that says that there is more urine on a toothpick in a restaurant than there is in the urinal. Lets not forget the one that says that there is a one in nine chance that you are gonna shake hands with someone who just masturbated and didn't wash there hands today. My personal favorite is the one that says that you inhale over a cubic liter of ass gas every day.

People I implore you, wash your goddamn hands. Thirty seconds isn't gonna kill you. On the contrary, you could live longer.

Shut Up!!!!!!!