2nd danger of reusable grocery sacks

The second danger of reusable grocery sacks is bacterial contamination.  If the food you purchase and place in your reusable grocery bag has germs on it (and it quite likely does), you carry those germs into your house.  The first time the germ level probably isn’t bad.  If you put your reusable grocery bag back into your car (ready for the next trip to the store which we have been doing), those germs will multiply in a hot car, possibly to a level of 300 times the safe level .  What germs/organisms did the researchers find during the testing of reuseable grocery bags? Intestinal germs called coliforms which may include E. Coli, plus yeast and molds.

If you want to read more information on this topic, research from Environment and Plastics Industry Council can be found at http://www.plastics.ca/_files/file.php?fileid=0&filename=file_A_Microbiological_Study_of_Reusable_Grocery_Bags May20_09.pdf