Next time you are feeling thirsty, you might want to reach for something other than fast food soda. A recent study found that a whooping 48% of soda fountains at fast food restaurants contain a bacteria that grows in feces - coliform bacteria.
The Hollins University study, published in the International Journal of Food Microbiology, also found that 11% of soda fountains contain the E.Coli bacteria as well. The team tested 90 beverages from 30 different fountains in the USA and also found:
“Other opportunistic pathogenic microorganisms isolated from the beverages included species of Klebsiella, Staphylococcus, Stenotrophomonas, Candida, and Serratia. Most of the identified bacteria showed resistance to one or more of the 11 antibiotics tested.”
Read the full report here.
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