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Saturday, February 09, 2013

Here’s Why It Never Hurts To Give Your Soda Can A Rinse

If you’re the type to drink from a soda can straight out of a store cooler or right from a vending machine, you might want to consider giving it a rinse or a wipe down with a wet napkin first.
The folks at CBS 11 in Fort Worth decided to have a lab take swabs of the tops of cans purchased at various stores and machines in the area. And to anyone who has studied basic microbiology, it’s probably not a surprise that there was a bunch of unpleasant stuff hanging around.

Among several other fun things, the lab found stenotrophomonas maltophilia, pseudomonas luteola, enterobacter cloacae, yeast, and staphylococcus on the can tops.

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2013 at 11:13 PM

    Free vaccination is what I call it! Swab any surface we touch each day before picking that nose and, well, ...

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2013 at 9:39 AM

    A quick rinse will not get rid of those things.

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