William Atkins
Thursday, 13 November 2008 05:33
Science -
Health
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According to the ABC News article, twenty supermarkets around the United States have taken a new and innovative way to counter these germs.
They have installed
“… sanitizing devices for shopping carts. The machines look like mini car washes for carts and spray a misty peroxide solution over the entire cart after every use that is guaranteed to kill 99 percent of germs, including E. coli and salmonella.”
Check out a picture of one of these shopping cart purification devices, called the “
Pure Cart System.”
Its website states that one million germs are on the handle of food shopping carts.
The Pure Cart System disinfects carts by spraying them with a fine mist of a peroxide solution.
Further information on these dirty grocery carts appears in
The Wall Street Journal article “
Taking the Gross Out of the Grocery Cart.”
Some reports conducted by television stations include:
KOCO-TV: (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma): "
Millions Of Bacteria Found On Metro Shopping Carts"
KRON-TV (San Francisco, California): "
Shopping Cart Shocker"