Avoid Drinking Fresh Sugar Cane Juice at dirty hawker stall
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This email was sent by a friend whose father is working with the
Ministry of the Environment in S'pore.
Health News - About Sugar Cane Drinks
A friend whose father works for the government health inspection
passed on his info. Their job is to inspect all hawkers, their
cooked food, their store hygiene, etc. They found sugar cane juice
has the highest content of bacteria among all food. In fact, it has
exceeded the set limit.
Hence, these guys had to find out why. They went round all sugar
cane stores and watched the way the hawkers handled their sugar
cane, wash their glasses, their entire procedure. But they couldn't
find the problem.
One day, they stayed till closing time and discovered some shocking
facts! Whenever, the hawkers closed their stores, they would wash
the floor with detergent.. As we know, the remaining sugar canes
will be placed at the back of the store, vertically standing and as
sugar canes are very porous, they tend to absorb whatever liquid
around them. Besides the soapy water, the dirt on hawkers' boots,
cats' urine, etc, will all be absorbed?? Now, whenever I eat at a
hawker centre, I would warn all my friends about this and of course
I stopped drinking my favorite sugar cane juice.
A friend, who loved sugar cane juice, was pregnant. She was always
drinking sugar cane juice. Anyway, one day she miscarried and the
fetus was already like 6 or 7 months old, I think. When the doctors
did an autopsy to find out why all of a sudden the fetus had died
inside her, they found traces of some chemical substance, which was
found in cat urine. Large traces of it.
While it would not be able to harm adults, it was extremely toxic to
babies, what more a fetus? So they tried to determine how this cat
urine thing could have ended up in the fetus. This meant that it had
to be digested by the mother, right? And the only logical conclusion
they could come up with was that since these sugar cane juice stall
holders just leave the canes lying around on the wet and dirty
floor, it would not be impossible to think that stray cats could
have peed on those sugar canes or near those sugar canes. So think
carefully the next time you order that favorite sugar cane juice!
Please pass this on to everyone you know in S'pore & M'sia. Let's
take action to make this world a better & safer place for all of us
& the generations to come...
