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Old Jan 28, 2005 | 08:58 AM
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LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Workers eat at their desks, but few clean
them, say University of Arizona researchers who found a typical toilet seat 400
times cleaner than a desk.
A study of 7,000 office desks nationwide found bacteria levels at something
like 25,000 microbes per square inch. The desks of workers harboring a cold or
the flu had even more germs.
An infection control nurse at University of Kentucky Hospital told the
Lexington Herald-Leader most people don't go six months without sanitizing
their toilet, but how many cubicle dwellers sanitize their desktop?
Crumbs left over from meals eaten on the desk feed bacteria.
An infection control expert advises workers who eat at their desks often to use
antiseptic wipes to clean the surface every couple of days.
"To me, it's sort of like washing your hands before you eat," Lexington-Fayette
County Health Department Deputy Commissioner Lois Davis told the newspaper.
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Old Jan 28, 2005 | 09:06 AM
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What does not kill you makes you stronger.
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Old Jan 28, 2005 | 09:24 AM
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I don't think I can eat from a toilet top
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Old Jan 28, 2005 | 09:24 AM
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Perchloroethylene, that chemical you smell on your clothes when you pick them up at the dry cleaner, is a wonderfully effective solvent. It gets out grease and every other unwanted stain from your clothes. It is also a known carcinogen. It is an aromatic hydrocarbon volatile organic compound that volatilizes and migrates laterally and vertically in the vapor phase through the subsurface soil vapor, the void space between the particulates, until it finds groundwater, possibly a source of drinking water supply.
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Old Jan 28, 2005 | 10:04 AM
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Grandma used to say you eat a pound of dire before you die!...
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Old Jan 28, 2005 | 10:06 AM
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What's dire?
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Old Jan 28, 2005 | 10:08 AM
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weird
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Old Jan 28, 2005 | 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by PeaceLove&S2K' date='Jan 28 2005, 01:06 PM
What does not kill you makes you stronger.



That's why I eat so much bacon...
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Old Jan 29, 2005 | 04:42 AM
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Isn't their food on a plate?

I clean my desk every three days with a wet towel If I get around all the papers that is
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Old Jan 29, 2005 | 06:12 AM
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still nasty
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