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Some newly discovered germy places:
* The metal aeration screen at the end of your kitchen faucet
* Crevices in and around the slimy rubber stopper in the garbage disposal
* The door mat (don't put grocery bags on them)
* The vacum cleaner = a study found that 13 percent of all vacuum cleaner brushes tested positive for E. coli
* Your car's dashboard
* Soap dispensers = one recent study found that about 25 percent of liquid soap dispensers in public restrooms were contaminated by fecal bacteria.
* Restaurant ketchup bottle = don't use a napkin to hold it — they're porous, so microorganisms can walk right through
* The refrigerator seal = a survey of 160 homes found that the seal around the fridge tested positive 83 percent of the time for common molds.
read about the other hot spots and cleaning tips:
* The metal aeration screen at the end of your kitchen faucet
* Crevices in and around the slimy rubber stopper in the garbage disposal
* The door mat (don't put grocery bags on them)
* The vacum cleaner = a study found that 13 percent of all vacuum cleaner brushes tested positive for E. coli
* Your car's dashboard
* Soap dispensers = one recent study found that about 25 percent of liquid soap dispensers in public restrooms were contaminated by fecal bacteria.
* Restaurant ketchup bottle = don't use a napkin to hold it — they're porous, so microorganisms can walk right through
* The refrigerator seal = a survey of 160 homes found that the seal around the fridge tested positive 83 percent of the time for common molds.
read about the other hot spots and cleaning tips:
