The problem is set forth in the following text. ***********************
HANDBAGS GO WHERE?
Have you ever noticed gals
who set their handbags on
public toilet 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 handbags down
on the counter where she was cooking or setting up food. She always said that handbags
are really dirty, because of where they have been. Smart Mom!!!
It's something just about every woman carries with them. While we may know
what's inside our handbags, do you have any idea what's on the outside?
Shauna Lake put handbags to the test - for bacteria - with
surprising results. You may think twice about where you put your handbag.
Women carry handbags everywhere; from the office to public toilets to the floor
of the car. Most women won't be caught without their handbags, but did you ever
stop to think about where your handbag goes during the day?
"I drive a school bus, so my handbag has been on the floor of the bus a
lot," says one woman. "On the floor of my car, and in toilets."
"I put my handbag in grocery shopping carts, on the floor of the toilet
while changing a nappy," says another woman "and of course in my home
which should be clean."
We decided to find out if handbags harbor a lot of bacteria. We learned how to
test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake , and then we set out to test the average woman's
handbag.
Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was on the bottom of
their handbag. Most said at home they usually set their handbags on top of
kitchen ta bles and counters where food is prepared.
Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn't be surprised if their
handbags were at least a little bit dirty. It turns out handbags are so
surprisingly dirty, even the microbiologist who tested them was shocked.
Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs says nearly all of the handbags 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 handbags could make
people very sick.
In one sampling, four of five handbags tested positive for salmonella, and
that's not the worst of it. "There is fecal contamination on the
handbags,"
says Amy. Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be cleaner than cloth handbags,
and lifestyle seem ed to play a role. People with kids tended to have dirtier
handbags than those without, with one exception. The handbag of one sin gle
woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst
contaminations of all. "Some type of feces, or possibly vomit" says
Amy.
So the moral of this story - your handbag 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 handbag at home and in toilets, and don't put it on your
desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen countertop. Experts say you should
think of your handbag 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 handbag on the countertops"
- your handbag has gone where individuals before you have sneezed, coughed,
spat, urinated, emptied bowels, etc! Do you really want to bring that home with
you? Th e microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a handbag will help.
Wash cloth handbags and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom of
leather handbags.
THIS IS WORTH SHARING!!!
AND MEN PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO YOUR WIFE, GIRLFRIENDS OR DAUGHTERS!
And how about just good female
friends ???? ************* end of problem statement************
This is an opportunity for all the Good Engineers on CR4 to come up with some solutions to the several locations where handbags need to be kept off the floor and out of the dirt and grime.
e.g. Mountain climbing "Biners" could be used to hang up bags in a toilet stall to keep them off the floor.
What innovative solution can YOU come up with?
HANDBAGS -- What To Do With Them ???
Re: HANDBAGS -- What To Do With Them ???
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