{"id":2081,"date":"2025-02-14T07:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T07:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/gloves-more-contaminated-than-a-toilet-seat\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T07:59:39","slug":"gloves-more-contaminated-than-a-toilet-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/gloves-more-contaminated-than-a-toilet-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloves more contaminated than a toilet seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-02-14 07:59:39<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Gloves carry more germs than a toilet seat.<BR><br \/>\nInitial Washroom Hygiene, a cleaning and toilet facilities firm, got a team to swab the inside and outside of different types of the piece of clothing, including woollen, leather mittens and cycling gloves, and the results found more than half carry dangerous bacteria.<BR><br \/>\nThe latter was the type that carried the most germs, followed by woollen, then suede.<BR><br \/>\nOver half of the items that were tested contained more than 500 units and some over 4,000 units of biological matter.<BR><br \/>\nAccording to a 2012 study, an average toilet seat has roughly 220 units, which is the normal range of contamination.<BR><br \/>\nJamie Woodhall, technical and innovations manager at Initial Washroom Hygiene, urged people to wash their gloves fully before wearing them.<BR><br \/>\nHe is quoted by MailOnline as saying: &#8220;&#8216;It is worth remembering that gloves can encounter many potential contamination points \u2014 from holding handles on public transport and opening doors, to using a phone or carrying bags of shopping.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The inside of gloves can also be contaminated if they are put on with unwashed hands.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-02-14 07:59:39 Gloves carry more germs than a toilet seat. Initial Washroom Hygiene, a cleaning and toilet facilities firm, got a team to swab the inside and outside of different&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}