Friday, August 27, 2010

Check the top of your canned sodas and foods

Always carefully rinse off the tops of canned sodas or foods


   A stock clerk was sent to clean up a store room. When he got back, he was complaining that the store room was really filthy and that he had noticed dried mouse or rat droppings in some areas.
     A couple of days later, he started to feel like he was coming down with a stomach flu, complained of sore joints and headaches, and began to vomit. He went to bed and never really got up again. Within two days he was severely ill and weak. His blood sugar count was down to 66, and his face and eyeballs were yellow. He was rushed to the emergency , where he was diagnosed to be suffering from massive organ failure. He died shortly before midnight. No one would have made the connection between his job and his death, had it not been for a doctor who specifically asked if he had been in a warehouse or exposed to dried rat or mouse droppings at any time.
     They said there is a virus ( much like the Hanta virus) that lives in dried rat and mouse droppings. Once dried, these droppings are like dust and can easily be breathed in or ingested if a person does not wear protective gear or fails to wash face and hands thoroughly.
     An autopsy was performed on the clerk to verify the doctor's suspicions.
  
     This is why it is extremely important to ALWAYS carefully rinse off the tops of canned sodas or foods, and to wipe off pasta packaging, cereal boxes, and so on. Almost everthing we buy in a supermarket was stored in a warehouse at one time or another, and stores themselves often  have rodents. Most of us remember to wash vegetables and fruits but never think of boxes and cans. The ugly truth is, even the most modern, upper-class super store has rats and mice. And their warehouse most assuredly does !
     Whenever you buy any canned soft drink, please make sure that you wash the top with running water and soap or, if that is not available, drink with a straw. The investigation of soda cans by the Centre of Disease Control  discovered that the tops of soda cans can be encrusted with dried rat's urine, which is so toxic it can be lethal. Canned drinks and other foodstuffs are stored in warehouses and containers that are usually infected with Rodents, and then they get transported to retail outlets without being properly cleaned.

6 comments:

  1. This is a serious warning never to forget!

    Normally we never remember that the selling location of a super store is not the "real" environment where most of the goods are stored!

    Thanks for sharing.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Yeah your right Kitty . . actually am very much aware of this things and am so glad you brought this up in your blog. You know my siblings laugh at me when i wash even soft drinks bottles before opening it. Aside from rats urine or droppings , you can never tell the health condition of the people who handled this products. . so am so paranoid about this things. . you will never know what hits you if you don't wanna be careful. .

    ReplyDelete
  3. You are sooo right. Excellent advice Kitty

    ReplyDelete
  4. hi kitty im new in blogging..and honestly this is the first story that i've read...... and i have learnd a lot from you thank you so much! wish to read more stories of yours..its really helpful....actually im aware of it but just a few info's......but now i cant say its not just a few!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Oh thats great ! thank you so much for your kind words ! It really encourages me to post more good informative things.
    thank you so much for visit n leaving a comment ! :)
    keep visiting !

    ReplyDelete
  6. @ Tony, Leon Gore, C : Thank you so much for visit n comments ! keep visiting ! :)

    ReplyDelete