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Lift buttons 'are 40 times dirtier than toilet seats'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1314717/Lift-buttons-40-times-dirtier-toilet-seats.html
By David Derbyshire
Last updated at 10:02 AM on 24th September 2010
Next time you use the lift, you might want to wash your hands.
A typical elevator button harbours nearly 40 times as many germs as a
public toilet seat, scientists have found.
elevator button
A typical elevator button harbours nearly 40 times as many germs as a
public toilet seat
A study carried out in hotels, restaurants, banks, offices and
airports found 313 'colony forming units' of bacteria on every square
centimetre of lift button.
The equivalent surface area of toilet seat had only eight units.
The bacteria on the lift buttons could include stomach bugs such as
E.coli, the researchers say.
Dr Nicholas Moon, from Microban Europe, which carried out the research
for the University of Arizona in the U.S., said: 'In a busy building,
a lift button can be touched by dozens of people who will have come
into contact with all kinds of bacteria every hour.
'Even if the buttons are cleaned regularly, the potential for the
build up of bacteria is high.'
Previous studies have shown that a typical office desk harbours 400
times more bacteria than a toilet seat and computer keyboards have
four times more germs than toilets.
But Professor Hugh Pennington, one of Britain's leading
microbiologists, said: 'Just because there are bacteria on a lift
button it doesn't mean they are harmful to your health.
'The best way to protect yourself is to wash your hands before you eat
or handle food.'
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