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Recycling Shopping Bags May Spread Bacteria

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Consumers often use reusable shopping bags for a variety of purposes which can result in cross contamination of common items. Chuck Gerba, microbiologist at University of Arizona has found bacteria originated from raw meat on shopping bags, 8% of which contained the troublesome E.coli.