Reusable Shopping Bags and Bugs
June 17, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Exposed!, Green Health, How To
Warnnig: Reusable Shopping Bags Could Be Making You Sick
That’s the word from a recent study commissioned and funded by the Environment and Plastics Industry Council(EPIC) in Canada. Randomly testing of reusable bags used by consumers in Toronto turned up an interesting result. It appears that the bags were not only carrying groceries. They are also carrying around high levels of mold, bacteria, and yeast.
Full results indicated that…
* Sixty four percent of the tested reusable bags were contaminated with some level of bacteria
* Nearly 30 percent had bacterial counts higher than what is considered safe for drinking water.
* Forty percent of …read more
