Toilet Water cleaner than Fast-Food Ice dispenser?
 

This should gross a couple people out:

-S

PS. I forgot to include the link - so here it is:

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=25442

What types of bacteria? Too generic, if the toilets have any addition of anti-septic when flushed, the results would not be surprising at all.

In India (and some places in Africa) people "bath" with [human or not] poo-soap, they rub it all over their body and face, including the nose and mouth. Some actually eat the poo, it's full of bacteria and they don't get sick or die, quite the contrary, they develop a stronger immunity. Anti-biotics? Anti-septics? No such thing in the most backwater isolated villages of India, and some people there are actually more healthy than you, maybe me, and the 12 year-old brat.

:oops: Well, you've just made sticking to my diet much, much easier this evening.

This might add some info to it - Follow up story:

-S

Follow up: Student finds toilet water cleaner than ice at fast food restaurants

By:Dave Balut

Tampa, Florida - Of all the projects at the Hillsborough County Regional Science Fair, one project in the microbiology category is getting international attention.

A seventh-grade student from Benito Middle School in Tampa checked five fast food restaurants near the University of South Florida and found there was more bacteria in the restaurants' ice, than there was in the same restaurants' toilet water.

Jasmine Roberts, 7th-Grade Student: "When I get ice, sometimes I order ice just to chew on it, and now I know I'm not going to do that anymore just because of the amount of bacteria I found."

Dr. Daniel Lim is a microbiology professor at USF and a mentor to Jasmine Roberts. Dr. Lim says as a scientist, he wasn't surprised the toilet water had less bacteria than the ice.

Dr. Daniel Lim, USF Microbiology Professor:
"And simply the act of flushing may cleanse the toilet of any residual bacteria, most residual bacteria."

But Dr. Lim says ice inside an ice machine could be there awhile.

Dr. Daniel Lim:
"If you don't clean the receptacle, the materials routinely, there may be a possibility of bio-film or residual material remaining in that receptacle."

Jim Griffith, the President of Suncoast Ice Machines, sells leases and services ice machines. He also wonders about the cleanliness of the ice dispensers the student sampled.

Jim Griffith, Suncoast Ice Machines: "How old was that ice and where had it been all the time. Was it manual-fill or was it dispensed out."

But Griffith says most restaurants keep ice machines clean because they don't want to deal with problems, if they don't.

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation checks ice machines during restaurant inspections twice a year.

A spokesperson says there's no way to tell how many ice machines do not pass inspection, but from talking with inspectors she says it does not appear to be a problem.



UPDATE:
New Tampa 7th grader Jasmine Roberts received first place in a regional science fair for her project. 12-year-old Jasmine compared ice, to toilet water at fast food restaurants, and in most cases, the toilet water was cleaner. Jasmine won $800 for her project.

Re: Toilet Water cleaner than Fast-Food Ice dispenser?
 

Thanks for the warning

:hmm:

yup I heard it on the glenn beck program www.glennbeck.com

My dog likes toilet water.

Toilet Water cleaner than Fast-Food Ice dispenser?
 

And you like your dog?
:D