Fast-food toilet-water has less bacteria than their drinks-ice

Started by Mike, Feb 14 06 06:42

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[h3]         Fast-food toilet-water has less bacteria than their drinks-ice        [/h3]A seventh-grade student in New Tampa, FL, compared the water in fastfood restaurants' toilets to the water used in their drinks-ice andconcluded that the ice was higher in bacteria than the toilets.12-year-old Jasmine Roberts won her school science fair for herresearch and hopes to win the county prize this week.[blockquote]"I found that 70-percent of the time, the ice from thefast food restaurant's contain more bacteria than the fast foodrestaurant's toilet water."Roberts' graph shows the toilet water, shown in red, had lessbacteria in most cases than the ice inside shown in blue, and the icefrom drive-through windows shown in green. Roberts' teacher says hewasn't surprised either.[/p][a href="http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=25442"]Link[/a][/p][/blockquote]