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Fast food toilets cleaner than ice machinesPosted Feb 15th 2006 8:42PM by Nick VagnoniFiled under: Water, Restaurants, Science, Southern States, America, SodaA seventh grader from Tampa recently won her school science fair with an experiment that compared levels of bacteria
in the toilets and ice machines of five different fast food restaurants. According to 12-year-old Jasmine Roberts, the
toilets contained less bacteria 70 percent of the time. For the toilet samples, Roberts flushed each toilet and then
scooped up some water with a sterile beaker. For the ice, she took samples from machines inside the restaurants as well
as from ice ordered at each drive-through window. The samples were tested at Tampa's Moffitt Cancer Center where Roberts
volunteers. The video that accompanies the story has footage of a graph comparing the bacteria in toilets versus ice.
Some of the differences are vast. Unfortunately, Roberts doesn't disclose the names of the restaurants.
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