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    Quote Originally Posted by Radical:
    I'm not really technically qualified to make this statement, but I think that our bodies were meant to handle a certain amount of germs, and in my experience, if you change any way that the body is meant to function, there will be negative consequences, i.e. immune system deficiency in this case. Ironically, the substances our bodies were not meant to deal with, namely certain man-made chemicals and carcinogens, are not eliminated by these hand sanitizers (at least I don't think they are).
    I'm with you 100% on this.

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    Agree that it's generally safe. The only place I've had food poisoning here was McDonald's. (a cheeseburger, quite cold, four days of stomach cramps followed)

    I do wonder though when I see people washing vegetables in back alleys, amongst the rubbish bins with God-knows-what dripping down and warnings about rat poison plastered everywhere. If they dropped some choi sum on the ground, would they just sling it back in? Of course they would.


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    Never had any problem with food poisoning here. If I can survive some of the very dubious things in my fridge I have decided to risk, I can probably survive anything.

    I think the food safety standards here are pretty good in spite of the grubby back alleys and the large rat/cockroach population.

    The only thing I do wonder about sometimes is the proximity of wash-rooms to eating areas in some of HK's small eateries.


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    Quote Originally Posted by shilo507:

    The only thing I do wonder about sometimes is the proximity of wash-rooms to eating areas in some of HK's small eateries.
    Or the fact that the washing up seems to be done in them too....?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MovingIn07:
    Or the fact that the washing up seems to be done in them too....?
    Never actually seen that in a restaurant but I did have a serviced apartment a few years back where the only sink was in the bathroom so I had to wash-up in there! Luckily, me cooking was a rare thing and I ate out (cheaply) most nights.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Radical:

    I'm not really technically qualified to make this statement, but I think that our bodies were meant to handle a certain amount of germs, and in my experience, if you change any way that the body is meant to function, there will be negative consequences, i.e. immune system deficiency in this case.
    Well, we can just take that one all the way to how some countries (Say, mine for instance) have become so enamored with protecting people from themselves that they've corrupted natural selection.

    Stupid people are supposed to die; it's how the species evolves. Increases in immune deficiency are bad, but decreasing intellect is more likely to send us to extinction.


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