>From a newspaper--Maybe they should put CS in the icemaker.
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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