{"id":2950,"date":"2007-07-03T09:26:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T09:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2007-07-03T09:26:05","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T09:26:05","slug":"the_shopping_ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2950","title":{"rendered":"The Shopping Carts Have Cooties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/health.msn.com\/print.aspx?cp-documentid=100165289&#038;page=0\">Sally Wadyka<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>According to studies done on shopping carts, more than 60 percent of them are harboring coliform bacteria (the sort more often associated with public toilet seats). \u201cThese bacteria may be coming from raw foods or from children who sit in the carts,\u201d says Chuck Gerba, Ph.D., a microbiologist at University of Arizona. \u201cJust think about the fact that a few minutes ago, some kid\u2019s bottom was where you are now putting your broccoli.\u201d According to studies done by Gerba and his colleagues at University of Arizona, shopping carts had more bacteria than other surfaces they tested\u2014even more than escalators, public phones and public bathrooms. To avoid picking up nasty bacteria, Gerba recommends using sanitizing wipes to clean off cart handles and seats, and to wash your hands after you finish shopping. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sally Wadyka: According to studies done on shopping carts, more than 60 percent of them are harboring coliform bacteria (the sort more often associated with public toilet seats). \u201cThese bacteria may be coming from raw foods or from children who sit in the carts,\u201d says Chuck Gerba, Ph.D., a microbiologist at University of Arizona. \u201cJust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}