Handbags- Worth Reading!!

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This was sent to me in an email but I think it’s worth sharing. I was absolutely disgusted when I read this, and it makes me think about how I always drop my purse on my kitchen countertop when I get home. Not anymore!

Have you ever noticed girls who set their handbags on public toilet floors,
then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the table?
Happens a lot! It’s not always the ‘restaurant food’ that causes stomach
distress. Sometimes ‘what you don’t know will hurt you!’

Read on………….
Mom got so upset when guests came in the door and plopped their handbags
down on the counter where she was cooking or setting up food. She always
said that handbags are really dirty, because of where they have been.
It’s something just about every woman carries with them. While we may know
what’s inside our handbags, do you have any idea what’s on the outside?

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 goes 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.’
‘I put my handbag in grocery shopping carts and on the floor of the toilet,’
says another woman ‘and of course in my home which should be clean.’
We decided to find out if handbags harbor a lot of bacteria. We learned how
to test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake , and then we set out to
test the average woman’s handbag.
Most women told us they didn’t stop to think about what was on the bottom of
their handbag. Most said at home they usually set their handbags on top of
kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared.
Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn’t be surprised if their
handbags were at least a little bit dirty.
It turns out handbags are so surprisingly dirty, even the microbiologist who
tested them was shocked.

Microbiologist 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. Pseudomonas 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 out of five handbags tested positive for salmonella,
and that’s not the worst of it. ‘There is fecal contamination on the
handbags’ says Amy. 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 Amy.

So the moral of this story is that 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.
Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way you would a pair
of shoes. ‘If you think about putting a pair of shoes on your counter tops,
that’s the same thing you’re doing when you put your handbag on the counter
tops.’

Your handbag has gone where individuals before you have walked, sat,
sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated, emptied bowels, etc!
Do you really want to bring that home with you?
The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a handbag will help. Wash
cloth handbags and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom of leather
handbags.
THIS IS WORTH SHARING!!! PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO YOUR GRANDMOTHERS, MOMS,
DAUGHTERS, GRANDDAUGHTERS AND GIRLFRIENDS !! !!