I came across this interesting article in the Star last Saturday…

First, ladies,pls see this photo if you have done it before:

Have you ever sit your handbags on public toilet floors then go directly to the dining tables and set it on the table? I beg most of you do..

It’s not always the restaurant food that causes stomach distress. Sometimes, what you don’t know will hurt you.

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 “sits” 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,’’ says another. “I put my handbag in grocery shopping carts and on the floor of the toilet,’’ says yet another woman, “And of course, in my home, which should be clean.’’

The scientists decided to find out if handbags harbour a lot of bacteria. The test was carried out at the Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake in the United States. It turns out handbags are so surprisingly dirty, even the microbiologist who tested them was shocked.

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. Psudomonas 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 Karen. Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be cleaner than cloth handbags and lifestyle seemed to play a role. People with kids tended to have dirtier handbags than those without, with one exception. The handbag of one single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst contaminations of all. “Some type of feces, or possibly vomit,’’ says Karen.

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 counter top.

Attached is a photo of the well known Salmonella bacteria:

Heard of Salmonella lately? Yes, it is the bacteria that caused Peanut Corp of America, which was founded in 1977,  out of business in 2009 after being directly linked to the 2008-2009 salmonella outbreak in the U.S. after its products found contaminated with this bacteria. All the 3 plants in US were investigated and confirmed having salmonella in the processing. With this closure on its plants, the company has no way to con’t running the businesses thus forcing it to apply for Chapter 7.

How to detect Salmonella?

You can’t really do it by yourself; salmonella does not have obvious indicators like taste, color or smell. You’d basically need to send it out to a lab to have them test it. Of course, the painful way to detect it is after ingesting: stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, fever and chills, all of which can be cured with antibiotics if caught in time. If not, you could die — so get to a hospital if you think you’ve got it, and play it safe by throwing away or fully cooking risky foods, which kills it.

How to kill Salmonella?

Thorough cooking can kill salmonella. But when health officials warn people not to eat potentially contaminated food, or when a food is recalled because of salmonella risk, that means don’t eat that food, cooked or not, rinsed or not. The stakes are too high.

So, if you have had many times leave your LV or Coach on the toilet floor or pub table, make sure you cook it to get rid of the harmful germs. Stupid to do this right? Ok, you can hand it to me, i will take care for you (in cleaning it) at a reasonable price! you may contact me at my email.