[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: OT - How clean is your purse??
- From: "Judy Mendelsohn" <judsohngsd@xxxxxxx>
- To: <stormygsd@xxxxxxx>, "ShowGSD-l" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:44:09 -0700
Worse than that.......last thursday, my daughter and & I went to dinner at
Texas Roadhouse...the table next to us had two young women and a baby (about
8 months old). About half way through dinner, the mother put her baby on
the table to sit, so she could see everything.......the baby was wearing
diapers.....Several waitresses went past the table, and never said a word to
either woman......I am going to have to think really hard, about going back
to that restaurant........They will miss my business.
Judy
Judsohn German Shepherds
judsohngsd.@xxxxxxx
Visit our website judsohngsd.com
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From: "Susan Madlung" <stormygsd@xxxxxxx>
To: "ShowGSD-l" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:21 AM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] OT - How clean is your purse??
I never gave it a thought. Who'd a thunk?
Have you ever noticed gals who sit their purses on public restroom floors -
then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the table? Happens a
lot!
It's not always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress.
Sometimes "what you don't know 'will' hurt you"! Read on...
Mom 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, because of where they have been. Smart
Momma!!!
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?
Shauna Lake put purses to the test - for bacteria - with surprising results.
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?
"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."
"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."
We decided to find out if purses harbor a lot of bacteria. We learned how to
test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake, then we set out to test the
average woman's purse.
Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was on the bottom of
their purse. Most said 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.
It turns out purses are so surprisingly dirty, even the microbiologist who
tested them was shocked. 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.
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.
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. The purse of one single woman
who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst contamination's of all. "Some
type of feces, or possibly vomit" says Amy.
So the moral of this story - your purse won't kill you, but it does have 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.
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 onto 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, emptied bowels, etc! Do you really want
to bring that home with you?
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.
THIS IS WORTH SHARING!!!
Sue Madlung - Shadowacre Reg'd German Shepherds
http://www.shadowacre.com
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