Dirty bag!
No, I’m not being rude.
I read this week that these ‘bags for life’ that we’ve all been exhorted to buy instead of using plastic carrier bags could be dangerous for our health.
Scientists from the University of Arizona did tests on shoppers’ bags which revealed half contained traces of E.coli, a lethal toxin which killed 26 people in Scotland in 1996 in one of the world’s worst food poisoning outbreaks. Plus they found many were contaminated with salmonella…
Oh, yuk!
I’ve written about this before.
OK, so I lie.
I published a fantastic article written by someone else about this and you need to read it right now.
Meanwhile I’m off to douse my jute ‘bag for life’ in bleach…
