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Student finds toilet water cleaner than ice at fast food restaurants

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Student finds toilet water cleaner than ice at fast food restaurants

By: Dave Balut

New Tampa, Florida - 12-year-old Jasmine Roberts is a seventh-grade student at Benito Middle School in New Tampa.

When it came time for her to choose a science project, she wondered about the ice in fast food restaurants.

Jasmine Roberts, 7th-grade student:
"My hypothesis was that the fast food restaurants’ ice would contain more bacteria that the fast food restaurants’ toilet water."

So Roberts set out to test her hypothesis, selecting five fast food restaurants, within a ten-mile radius of the University of South Florida.

Roberts says at each restaurant she flushed the toilet once, the used sterile gloves to gather samples.

Jasmine Roberts:
"Using the sterile beaker I scooped up some water and closed the lid."

Roberts also collected ice from soda fountains inside the five fast food restaurants. She also asked for cups of ice at the same restaurant's drive thru windows.

She tested the samples at a lab at the Moffitt Cancer Center where she volunteers with a USF professor. Roberts says the results did not surprise her.

Jasmine Roberts:
"I found that 70-percent of the time, the ice from the fast food restaurant's contain more bacteria than the fast food restaurant's toilet water."

Roberts' graph shows the toilet water, shown in red, had less bacteria in most cases than the ice inside shown in blue, and the ice from drive-through windows shown in green. Roberts' teacher says he wasn't surprised either.

Mark Danish, Honors Science Teacher:
"It does concern me and I think with any restaurant you have to think twice about what you may get there."

Roberts says she'll think twice before getting ice at fast food restaurants again.

Her project won the science fair at Benito Middle School, and she hopes to win the top prize at the Hillsborough County Regional Science and Engineering Fair, which starts Tuesday at the USF Sun Dome.


Dave Balut, Tampa Bay's 10 News
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bearonu said:
Thank you very much. I have always had a habit of eating the ice out of the cup after finishing off a fast food drink. I think I'll try to break that habit now. :sick1:
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Because just drinking out of the cup filled with bacteria ice wouldn't give you any germs?
 
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It doesn't say she got the ice with sterile gloves. Maybe she touched the ice and she is bacteria-ridden. I'm calling junk science on this one. (and that is just because I'm drinking a fountain drink from McDs)
 
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I would have liked to have seen her take a test subject, like tap water from her home. For all we know, the ice could still be less-bacterial than tap water.

Fucking twelve year-olds. Trying to be all smart and shit.
 
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