Beware!
Daniel Koh
Have something for you that is not related to studies. Typically
crucial for every singaporean, atleast in this small red dot!
I extracted this article from an email forwarded to me. I doubt the
story of the miscarriage to be true. Perhaps it is a make-up story.
Nevertheless, it is undeniably true that sugar cane usually are not
kept in clean and hygenic envoirment. Do take note!
Subject: Health News - About Sugar Cane Drinks
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:33:18 +0800
Dear all,
Be cautious,...
Subject: Drinking Fresh Sugar Cane Juice...........
Please take 2 mins to read this.
This email was sent by a colleague whose father is working with the
Ministry of the Environment in S'pore.
A friend whose father works for the government health inspection
passed on his info. Their job is to inspect all hawkers, their cooked
food, their store hygiene, etc. They found sugar cane juice has the
highest content of bacteria among all food. In fact, it has exceeded
the set limit.
Hence, these guys had to find out why. They went round all sugar cane
stores and watched the way the hawkers handled their sugar cane, wash
their glasses, their entire procedure. But they couldn't find the
problem.
One day, they stayed till closing time and discovered some shocking
facts!
Whenever, the hawkers closed their stores, they would wash the floor
with detergent. As we know, the remaining sugar canes will be
placed at the back of the store, vertically standing and as sugar
canes are very porous, they tend to absorb whatever liquid around
them. Besides the soapy water, the dirt on hawkers' boots, cats'
urine, etc, will all be absorbed??
Now, whenever I eat at a hawker centre, I would warn all my friends
about this and of course I stopped drinking my favourite sugar cane
juice.
A friend, who loved sugar cane juice, was pregnant. She was always
drinking sugar cane juice. Anyway, one day she miscarried and the
fetus was already like 6 or 7 months old, I think. When the doctors
did an autopsy to find out why all of a sudden the fetus had died
inside her, they found traces of some chemical substance, which was
found in cat urine. Large traces of it. While it would not be able to
harm adults, it
was extremely toxic to babies, what more a fetus? So they tried to
determine how this cat urine thing could have ended up in the fetus.
This meant that it had to be digested by the mother, right?
And the only logical conclusion they could come up with was that since
these sugar cane juice stall holders just leave the canes
lying around on the wet and dirty floor, it would not be impossible to
think that stray cats could have peed on those sugar canes or near
those sugar canes. So think carefully the next time you order that
favourite sugar
cane juice!
Please pass this on to everyone you know in S'pore & M'sia.
Let's take action to make this world a better & safer place for ALL of
us & the generations to come.