Yikes! Now I know I have to sanitized my purse every so often!
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[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]Have you ever noticed women who sit their purses on public restroom floors - then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the table? Happens a lot! Maybe you do it yourself. [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"]
[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]It's not always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress. Sometimes "what you don't know 'will' hurt you".
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[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]Mother got so upset when guests came in the door and plopped their purses down on the counter where she was cooking or setting up food. She always said that purses are really dirty, b ecause of where they have been. Smart Momma!!! [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]
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[SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"]It's something just about every woman carries with them. While we may know what's inside our purses, do you have any idea what's on the outside?
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[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]Shauna[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "] Lake[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "] put purses to the test - for bacteria - with surprising results.
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[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]You may think twice about where you put your purse. Women carry purses everywhere; from the office to public restrooms to the floor of the car. Most women won't be caught without their purses, but did you ever stop to think about where your purse goes during the day? [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]
[SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"]"I drive a school bus, so my purse has been on the floor of the bus a lot," says one woman. "On the floor of my car, and in restrooms."
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[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]"I put my purse in grocery shopping carts, on the floor of bathroom stalls while changing a diaper," says another woman "and of course in my home which should be clean."
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[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]We decided to find out if purses harbour a lot of bacteria. We learned how to test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake, Utah, then we set out to test the average woman's purse.
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[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was on the bottom of their purse. Most said that at home they usually set their purses on top of kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared. Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn't be surprised if their purses were at least a little bit dirty.
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[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]It turns out purses are so surprisingly dirty; even the microbiologist who tested them was shocked. [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"]
[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]Microbiologist Amy Karren of Nelson Labs says nearly all of the purses tested were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria.
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[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]Pseudomonas can cause eye infections, staphylococcus aurous can cause serious skin infections, and salmonella and e-coli found on the purses could make people very sick. In one sampling, four of five purses tested positive for salmonella, and that's not the worst of it. "There is fecal contamination on the purses," says Amy.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "] [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]
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[SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"]Leather or vinyl purses tended to be cleaner than cloth purses, and lifestyle seemed to play a role. People with kids tended to have dirtier purses than those without, with one exception.
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[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]The purse of one single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst contaminations of all. "Some type of feces, or possibly vomit" says Amy.
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[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]So the moral of this story - your purse won't kill you, but it does has the potential to make you very sick if you keep it on places where you eat. Use hooks to hang your purse at home and in restrooms, and don't put it on your desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen countertop.
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[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]Experts say you should think of your purse the same way you would a pair of shoes. "If you think about putting a pair of shoes on your countertops, that's the same thing you're doing when you put your purse on the countertops" - your purse has gone where individuals before you have sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated, defecated, etc! Do you really want to bring that home with you?
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[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; 10pt: "]The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a purse will help. Wash cloth purses and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom of leather purses. [/SPAN][/FONT]
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