If you need another reason to ditch the soda…..this might be it.
Soda Fountains Squirt Fecal Bacteria, Study Finds
|
Experts Say Infections Could Spread If Fountains Are Not Cleaned Properly
|
Those soda fountain machines found in restaurants and fast food joints may be squirting out liquids contaminated with fecal bacteria, a small study found.
|
“The EPA regulates our drinking supply, and there can be some bacteria, but one of the things that is not allowed is coliform bacteria,” said Renee D. Godard, professor of biology at Hollins University and a co-author of the paper published in the January print issue of the International Journal of Food Microbiology.
|
“We can’t have that in our drinking supply. But they’re coming out of these soda fountain machines,” she said.
|
From all her testing, Godard still isn’t sure where the bacteria came from. Few people observed in the restaurants touched the nozzles of the soda fountain machines and restaurant managers Godard interviewed reported cleaning the nozzles daily.
Read more at abcnews.go.com |
Just like the Ragu spaghetti commercial except this is with water — codine? Its in there. Oxycotin — it’s in there. Epi? It’s in there.
Imagine what has been put into our bodies via our “Commercial Water Plants” U.S. expands efforts to regulate meds in water |
EPA lists 13 pharmaceuticals as candidates for regulation |
Federal regulators under President Barack Obama have sharply shifted course on long-standing policy toward pharmaceutical residues in the nation’s drinking water, taking a critical first step toward regulating some of the contaminants while acknowledging they could threaten human health. |
A burst of significant announcements in recent weeks reflects an expanded government effort to deal with pharmaceuticals as environmental pollutants: |
| For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency has listed some pharmaceuticals as candidates for regulation in drinking water. The agency also has launched a survey to check for scores of drugs at water treatment plants across the nation. |
| The Food and Drug Administration has updated its list of waste drugs that should be flushed down the toilet, but the agency has also declared a goal of working toward the return of all unused medicines.Read more at www.msnbc.msn.com |
Kamen is an incredible genius and we need more people like him and those on his team. If the Government wants to get the economy going stop putting money into the dumbass automakers and banks. Put lots of money into Kamen and people/companies like them who are solving incredibly challenging problems that will offer many benefits to mankind. Dean Kamen’s Robotic “Luke” Arm |
| Segway inventor Dean Kamen is looking to re-invent the prosthetic arm. IEEE Spectrum caught up with Kamen and one of his “test pilots,” to see the robotic arm (named after Luke Skywalker’s articfic… Read more at www.youtube.com |
Wow. This is the first I have heard about this. Amazing the media flocks on Tiger Woods and other Celebs, but stuff like this never makes the headlines. Bayer Admits GMO Contamination is Out of Control |
EXTRACT: Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite ‘the best practices [to stop contamination]‘(1). It shows that all outdoors field trials or commercial growing of GE crops must be stopped before our crops are irreversibly contaminated.
—
—
$2 million US dollar verdict against Bayer confirms company’s liability for an uncontrollable technology |
Greenpeace welcomes the United States federal jury ruling on 4 December 2009 that Bayer CropScience LP must pay $2 million US dollars to two Missouri farmers after their rice crop was contaminated with an experimental variety of rice that the company was testing in 2006. |
This verdict confirms that the responsibility for the consequences of GE (genetic engineering) contamination rests with the company that releases GE crops. Read more at www.organicconsumers.org |
|
Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades
|
A GROWING NEED FOR A PROGRAM ONCE SCORNED Greg Dawson and his wife, Sheila, of Martinsville, Ohio, help feed their family of seven with a $300 monthly food stamp benefit. Center and right, the food pantry in Lebanon, Ohio, where residents can also enroll in what is formally called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
More Photos >
|
MARTINSVILLE, Ohio — With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. |
It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread and cheese, swiping them at counters in blighted cities and in suburbs pocked with foreclosure signs. Read more at www.nytimes.com |
At least 2 of my 4 kids (the 2 who hate bath time) will be happy to learn about this research. Scientists give grubby children a clean bill of health |
For parents too stretched to make sure their offspring are perfectly turned out at all times, it may just be the scientific cover they’ve been waiting for. |
They will now be able to answer the disapproving tuts of their more fastidious friends by pointing to research which gives biological backing to the old adage that the more germs a child is exposed to during early childhood, the better their immune system in later life |
Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California found that being too clean could impair the skin’s ability to heal. The San Diego-based team discovered that normal bacteria that live on the skin trigger a pathway that helps prevent inflammation when we get hurt. |
These bugs dampen down overactive immune responses which can cause cuts and grazes to swell, or lead to rashes, according to research published in the online edition of Nature Medicine. Read more at www.guardian.co.uk |
I wonder if they give them a box of Beano for gas as well. Moldovan soldiers given onions to fight swine flu |
CHISINAU, Moldova — Moldova’s army is feeding its soldiers onions and garlic to help them ward off swine flu. |
Defense Ministry chief doctor Col. Sergiu Vasislita says about 0.9 ounces (25 grams) of onions and 0.5 ounces (15 grams) of garlic will be added to each soldier’s daily diet. That roughly corresponds to a small onion and a couple of garlic cloves. |
Onion and garlic are traditional remedies in Moldova where they are widely believed to boost the immune system. |
Vasislita said Thursday that the measure was taken after 24 soldiers fell sick with swine flu in the past two weeks. More than 1,000 Moldovans have swine flu with 90 new cases reported daily. |
About 6,500 troops serve in the army of Moldova, a small former Soviet republic bordering Romania and Ukraine. Read more at www.google.com |
Plague or Plan? Ukraine’s mystery disease ‘burns out lungs’ |
It does make more sense, especially the communications portion. Medical School: Anatomy’s Out, Systems Biology’s In |
 Sending students to the anatomy lab to dissect a cadaver in their first week of medical school may be a fading ritual. At Georgetown, students spend a few months in courses called “Physician-Patient Communication” and “Social and Cultural Issues in Health Care” before they start with the cutting — and when they do get to dissection, it’s in a unit on limbs, not in an old-school anatomy class.
|
That’s one example of the way med schools are shuffling their curricula to try to catch up with the changing demands — both scientific and cultural — doctors face, the Washington Post reports. |
In a new case-based teaching method at Johns Hopkins, students might have a unit on heart disease where they look at sample heart attack cases to understand the genetics of heart disease, the physiology of the heart, medication options, costs and benefits of various treatments and how environment can affect heart disease risks, the Post says. Read more at blogs.wsj.com |
No paid sick leave hampers US swine flu battle |
WASHINGTON — Along with scarce vaccine and shrinking stocks of antivirals, the United States faces another enemy in the fight against swine flu: workers who go to work when they’re ill because they don’t get paid sick leave. |
The A(H1N1) virus “is causing an emergency for workers and families across the country,” Democratic Senator Chris Dodd told a Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday on paid sick leave in a time of pandemic flu. |
The United States is one of only five countries in the world without a national policy on paid sick leave, Dodd said. |
“We’re in the company — and I say this respectfully of these countries — of Lesotho, Liberia, Papua-New Guinea and Swaziland. Those countries and the United States are the five that don’t have paid sick leave,” Dodd said. Read more at www.google.com |
|
Soda Fountains Squirt Fecal Bacteria, Study Finds
