Federal Supervision Agency for Customer Protection and Human Welfare told about danger of kitchen sponges

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Photo: Depositphotos the Kitchen sponge for washing of ware may contain more than 350 species of the bacteria causing various dangerous infectious diseases. As they say in an instruction Federal Supervision Agency for Customer Protection and Human Welfare, excerpts from which is given by information agency "ITAR-TASS", the sponge can be dirtier in 200 thousand times, than a toilet bowl seat. Thus in 77% of the studied sponges koliformny bacteria which can lead to sharp enteric infections were revealed. Another 86% contained yeast and a mold, and 18% — staphylococcal bacteria. It is noted that often sinks, table-tops, chopping boards become a source of distribution of an infection...