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Restaurant restrooms put to the hot water test
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
The biggest burger chains on the planet fail to consistently provide local customers and employees with the water temperatures needed to facilitate sanitary hand washing - despite state and federal requirements that they do so.
People who go to the bathroom, and then use cool water afterwards to wash their hands, are more likely to promote the transmission of germs than those who use hot water, experts say.
Experts went into the restrooms of 14 area restaurants operated by McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's to check restroom water temperature compliance.
Of the 14 restaurants, nine were not in compliance with the law, which requires a minimum temperature of 110 degrees. Four of the restaurants had top temperatures below 100 degrees, and one Wendy's, in Brunswick, was a chilly 63 degrees.
"That's not very warm," says Dr. Stephen Sears, Maine's state epidemiologist.
The owner of the Wendy's franchise in Brunswick said that the cool temperature was the result of a plumbing problem, which he repaired after he was made aware of it.
It can be difficult for small, family-operated restaurants to pay for the sometimes-expensive fixes to health problems such as low temperatures at bathroom sinks.
So, you may just want to consider keeping that hand sanitizer "handy"!
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Pamela,
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Host of Pamela's Place,
Host of Weekend Outlook,
WDNG Radio Inc.
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