Desks Harbor 400 Times More Bacteria Than Toilet Seats

Bacteria

If you eat off your desk, what does that say about your toi­let seat?

… For the study, Gerba and his team sep­a­rated office work­ers into two groups. One group used dis­in­fect­ing wipes to clean their desks, phones and com­put­ers; the other did not. Within two days, the wipes users were found to have a 99.9 per­cent reduc­tion in bac­te­ria levels.

The study team eval­u­ated a vari­ety of office loca­tions, envi­ron­ments and sur­faces. Study sites included pri­vate offices, cubi­cles and com­mon work areas in offices located in New York, San Fran­cisco, Tuc­son and Tampa. A total of 7,000 sam­ples were col­lected nation­wide and ana­lyzed at the Uni­ver­sity of Ari­zona laboratories. …

Aver­age Desk Har­bors 400 Times More Bac­te­ria Than Aver­age Toi­let Seat — lifehack.org

3 Responses to “Desks Harbor 400 Times More Bacteria Than Toilet Seats”


  • Gladys Charnock

    Good Grief! Now that’s an eye-opener! I think I am going to be ill.

  • hello
    i am plan­nin to study the bac­te­r­ial dis­trib­u­tuon in com­puter key boards , mouse, mouse pad and other. hence could u hehp me by pro­vid­ing the orig­i­nal arti­cle about which u have talked about above.pls send it to biotechnepal@yahoo.com.
    Regards

  • [quote comment=“10971”]hello
    i am plan­nin to study the bac­te­r­ial dis­trib­u­tuon in com­puter key boards , mouse, mouse pad and other. hence could u hehp me by pro­vid­ing the orig­i­nal arti­cle about which u have talked about above.pls send it to biotechnepal@yahoo.com.
    Regards[/quote]

    See the link at the bot­tom of the article.

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