02.14.06
Ain’t That a Pisser?
Twelve-year-old Florida seventh-grader Jasmine Roberts took the top prize at her school’s science fair for proving that fast food restaurant toilet water is less contaminated than their ice.
Ms. Roberts took samples from five (unnamed) fast food joints within a 10-mile radius of the University of South Florida. She gathered samples of their toilet water (flushing first and using sterile gloves and sterile beakers), and also obtained cups of ice from their drive-up windows. The samples were then tested at the Moffit Cancer Center, where she volunteers with a USF professor.
Ms. Roberts reported her tests showed that “70-percent of the time, the ice from the fast food restaurants contain more bacteria than the fast food restaurant’s toilet water.”
Neither she nor her honors science teacher were surprised.
