By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
It must be germ week here at RealTechNews. This is a tad off topic, but a 7th grade girl did a little experiment that may have you re-thinking that next restaurant Coke or root beer. She took a bacteria culture of ice from a fast food restaurant soda machine, and another cultuure of the water from that same restaurant’s toilet and guess what? You’d be better off having a long sip from the bowl than from your 24 oz. soft drink.
Benito Middle School student Jasmine Roberts examined the amount of bacteria in ice served at fast food restaurants. The 12-year-old compared the ice used in the drinks with the water from toilet bowls in the same restaurants. Jasmine said she found the results startling. “I thought there might be a little bacteria in the ice, but I never expected it to be this much,” she said. “And I never thought the toilet water would be cleaner.” Her discovery: Seventy percent of the time, the ice had more bacteria than the toilet water. Source: TBO.com via diggdot.us
We Say: Before you get all up in arms, keep in mind that she is not a trained scientist and there are a lot of factors and also a lot of things in water that just are part of water – including bacteria. But keeping ice machines clean is something health inspectors test for, and this place may have fallen way behind. But, it’s still scary to have to re-think frozen water.
well i guess dogs aren’t so dumb after all.
We need to treat ice as food and obtain it from a clean environment like bottled spring water, this is the answer http:\\www.islandice.com.au Spring water ice you just pop from the hermetically sealed packet and consume.
Is 1985 old for a hotel ice machine? The one i stayed at was built in 1985 according to the sticker and it sometimes makes a gurgling noise as if the filter was not running well…