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Fast Food Ice Dirtier Than Toilet Water!
Out of the mouths of babes comes this news. Budding scientist, 12-year-old Jasmine Roberts from Benito Middle School in Tampa, Fla., has created a science fair project that has lots of grown-ups sitting up and taking notice. Her conclusion: Ice at fast food restaurants is laced with bacteria. Lots of it.
Tampa Bay Online reports that Roberts examined the amount of bacteria in the ice served at fast food restaurants and the amount of bacteria in the toilet bowl water in those same restaurants. The toilet bowl water was cleaner 70 percent of the time.
Even Roberts found the results to be startling. She told Tampa Bay Online reporter Michele Sager, “I thought there might be a little bacteria in the ice, but I never expected it to be this much. And I never thought the toilet water would be cleaner.”
The study: Roberts collected ice samples from five fast food restaurants near the University of South Florida, including self-service dispensers inside the restaurants and in drinks served through the drive-through windows. Then she collected samples of water from the toilets in those same restaurants. All the samples were placed in sterile containers. She tested them in a lab at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, where she volunteers with a University of South Florida professor.
The results: In four of the five restaurants, the ice that came from the self-service machines had more bacteria than the toilet water, reports Tampa Bay Online. Three of the five cups of ice from the drive-through windows had more bacteria than the toilet water. The bacteria in the ice included fecal coliform or E. coli, which can only come from the feces of warm-blooded animals.
How did the bacteria get into the ice? Roberts suspects either the machine was not properly cleaned or an employee with soiled hands touched the ice.
Geoff Luebkemann, the Florida state official whose agency is responsible for regulating hotels and restaurants, told Tampa Bay Online, “Ice machines are part of the health inspections. There are a lot of factors that have to be considered, like how accurately did she gather and test her specimens. Plus, comparing the ice to toilet water can be misleading because there are acceptable levels of bacteria for water.”
Not so says Galina Tuninskaya, vice president of Applied Consumer Services, a private lab that tests drinking water. “No levels of fecal coliform or E. coli are acceptable,” she told Tampa Bay Online. “If you find that, you’ve got a problem.”
In case you wondered, Roberts won the science fair.
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That is just sick to think about, you normally expect safe food or ice in this case when you go out to places…
Something else that’s filthy is a pop machine (the kind that dispenses
into a paper cup)You see those machines at fast food places, restaurants, ice cream
stores, etc.The nozzles come off and have to be cleaned. The outside nozzle
is probably black, but the inner nozzle is white. Ask your local
food place to show you the inner nozzle. I bet it’s full of black crap
that will make you barf! (and will probably make you very sick too)Perhaps they don’t even know that the nozzles are removeable! That’s
when you should walk out the door.Great. Now we have something new to worry about in addition to employees who don’t wash their hands after using the facilities, ones who sneeze in the food prep areas, ones who drop food on the floor and still serve it, and the disturtbed ones who do even worse things to your food 😯
Remember the Seinfeld episode where Jerry goes to Poppie’s for dinner, and after telling him that he’s going to prepare Jerry’s dinner personally, Poppie goes to the bathroom without washing his hands. Then Jerry’s sitting in his chair watching Poppie kneading and kneading the dough… :haha:
Quote:Remember the Seinfeld episode where Jerry goes to Poppie’s for dinner, and after telling him that he’s going to prepare Jerry’s dinner personally, Poppie goes to the bathroom without washing his hands. Then Jerry’s sitting in his chair watching Poppie kneading and kneading the dough… :haha:Yeah 😯 That would be my last visit to that place 😯
Quote:Poppie goes to the bathroom without washing his hands.Employees aren’t the only ones to watch. The delivery drivers are too.
They touch the main door handle, the cooler handle, the light switch, etc.After they are finished in the bathroom they start touching everything again when they exit.
I think the cleanest place to eat would be McDonalds. They scrub
everything throughout the entire day.I’m not talking about their food. I mean that their buildings are
probably the cleanest when compared to others.By the way, McDonalds hires teens, and they are easier to teach to
comply with the health rules than an adult.I watched some owners of independent small restaurants clean
their food machines and I would NEVER eat at one of those places.
The one guy prepared his sanitizing solution the day before, which rendered it useless.
Not only that, but the solution was filthy.Bon Apetite!! icon_vomit1.gif
Her conclusion: Ice at fast food restaurants is laced with bacteria. Lots of it.
What doesn’t kill you make you stronger. drool.gif Drogar-Laugh(LBG).gif Drogar-Laugh(LBG).gif
Quote:Her conclusion: Ice at fast food restaurants is laced with bacteria. Lots of it.What doesn’t kill you make you stronger. drool.gif Drogar-Laugh(LBG).gif Drogar-Laugh(LBG).gif
I think I’d rather get my strength elsewhere 😯
It seems like nothing is safe to eat or drink these days.
I guess I’ll have to stick with a strict beer diet. icon_cheesygrin.gif
Restaurants don’t care how dirty their equipment is as long as they can sell their garbage. Simple things like ice should be checked, you can’t assume anything is clean. It is surprising more people don ‘t get ill.
Quote:Restaurants don’t care how dirty their equipment is as long as they can sell their garbage. Simple things like ice should be checked, you can’t assume anything is clean. It is surprising more people don ‘t get ill.There have been more cases in recent years of such things like Chrones Diseases and Ulcerated Collitis, caused most likely by contaminations in food
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