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>>LISA ACKERLEY: We know that keping your family healthy is important to you
and creating an envronment where they can thrive depends not only on your daily choices in the home
but also those that affect the community at large.
That's why Dettol has launched "Mission for Health"
I don't know about you, but the kitchen is the hub of my home, and that means that everybody comes in here
and basically dumps all their belongings on my work surface
from bags of shopping, to handbags, coats, schoolbags.
So one of the first things I do, when I come in and if I'm going to be preparing food
is I actually clean the work surface
before I start getting the food out, and the other day I actually found a teenager lying all over the surface,
so anything could happen when you're not here!
The other thing to bear in mind is it's not just what people bring in on their hands, and their coats and their bags
into the kitchen that you need to be worried about.
There are also lots of foods that intrinsically have
potentially dangerous bacteria on them and so one little tip
which is really important and could save you so much trouble really,
is to, if you're defrosting raw meat or poultry put it in a deep dish
and put it in the bottom of the fridge
that means that you don't get the drip going all over the fridge,
it's all contained in the dish.
The other thing is always put raw meat, eggs and poultry on the bottom shelf
of the fridge and away from things such as the dairy products
which are going to be eaten as they are.
If you've got bacteria all over your hands
then you really do need to wash them.
So if you've been handling raw meat or poultry make sure you wash your hands really thoroughly because otherwise
your hands will spread those bacteria all over the home and anyone, any age, could pick the bacteria up and become ill.
So actually the kitchen is a really good place to start on your "Mission for Health".
>>LISA: You couldn't 'try' to poison someone any better!
Obviously, with E. Coli,
you shouldn't have any on a cloth.
If E. Coli O157 had been on that cloth,
then you only need 10
of those bacteria to make you ill.
And we've got 1.2million of these general E. Coli.
[Chuckles] I don't need to know what the result is I can guess!
>>ANITA: It says the total aerobic plate count is 14 billion. Is that bad?
>>LISA: That is high, yeah.
>>MATT: What does that mean; Aerobic plate count?
>>LISA: It's the amount of bacteria yeasts and everything that they picked up. That's per gram of the sponge.
So that's really high.
>>MATT: As high as what? >>LISA: Well you might find that sort of level in faeces; in poo!
>>ANITA: You see that? >>MATT: What is that? Is it chocolate?
>>LISA: Oh no. That looks suspiciously like rat poo. >>ANITA: Urgh.
>>MATT: Is that what it looks like? >>LISA: It does!
[Watchdog Theme Tune]
>>ANNE: Yes, hello and good evening and welcome to Watchdog; we're live from Television Centre.
Tonight
The Indesit Moon.
Should this machine come with a health warning?
OK with me, Professor Lisa Ackerley. There's nothing she doesn't know about bugs and bacteria.
>>ANNE: Would you have one of these machines in your home? >>LISA: No thank you!
>>ANNE: Really? What did you find in the sludge?
>>LISA: Well we found a biofilm cocktail
of all sorts of bacteria, moulds and yeasts, including E. Coli and Pseudomonas
and they probably are surviving the wash and then proliferating in the warm environment,
and probably feeding off things like dead skin, bio-oils
>>LISA: and even the rubber of the seals in the washing machine. >>ANNE: And how dangerous is it?
>>LISA: Well, some strains of E. Coli are actually dangerous, and
Pseudomonas can cause skin irritations, infections,
particularly in people who have an immune suppressant and people with diabetes
or cystic fibrosis. And also people with Asthma really don't want to be
inhaling mould as it could trigger an attack. But what I'm REALLY concerned about though
is that if someone in the family was actually ill with an infection and their dirty laundry
went into the washing machine and the bacteria survived then the next load
could become contaminated, and that could include things like kitchen cloths or the tea towel.
And then cross infect the rest of the family!
>>MATT: We've heard serious complaints from past guests about health and hygiene at the hotel,
so we've flown in top environmental health expert, Dr Lisa Ackerley.
She's going covert - to put the
hotel under her very clean microscope
>>LISA: Here I come with my laboratory!
[ATP Machine Beeps] So it's a pass, so that's really good. What that means is,
there is scale on there which would need descaler to get off,
which would need descaler to get off,
but it looks as if they've used some form of cleaner to get the other dirt off the taps.
The only way to deal with this really is to close down the hot water system
and investigate and thoroughly clean and sort out the problems.
This of course may mean closing the hotel.
>>MATT: 3 of the 9 food samples we took were infected with a variety of different
dangerous bacteria.
The salad tested positive for salmonella
and the fish contained Citrobacter. These are two dangerous pathogens which,
in rare cases, could even kill.
Citrobacter and Salmonella are not safe in ready to eat food at any level.
This food was unfit for human consumption.
>>LISA: This cocktail of bacteria in food is extremely dangerous potentially,
and I would want to remove all this food and bin it!
[Holiday Hit Squad Theme Tune] >>JOE: I think this is a hotel which really needs help
so I'm calling in the reinforcements.
Dr Lisa Ackerley has been a Health and Safety Inspector for over 20 years
>>JOE: Hey Lisa, how's it going? Good to see you >>LISA: Hi, good thanks!Good to see you too.
>>JOE: Welcome to Miami Beach, we've got quite a place
for you to look at, so shall we get started?
>>JOE: After you.
Aah ok, now this is very similar to the room which I stayed in last night,
so this is pretty typical.
>>JOE: Mine wasn't that clean >>LISA: You think this is cleaner? >>JOE: I'll be interested to see what you make of this.
>>JOE: It might not seem the most obvious place to start, but Lisa's expert eye has
spotted the TV remote control.
>>LISA: I'll just turn it over here, and then obviously I won't swab where I've touched.
>>JOE: A recent study found that these handheld gadgets carry more bacteria
than even the toilet bowl.
>>JOE: What sort of things might you pick up on a remote like this?
>>LISA: Um, well really anything that the previous users have had on their hands
so if they have been to the loo and haven't washed their hands,
and they are carrying some sort of pathogen, like
like E. Coli and Salmonella then those could be transferred onto the remote control.
>>JOE: The Cavalier rates it Crab Shack as the number one seafood restaurant
on South Beach.
Time to find out for ourselves. [Pink Panther tune]
I'm actually really fascinated to see
what Lisa uncovers in this kitchen.
My hunch is,
she's going to have a field day here.
>>LISA: This is an American cockroach trap [Scrapes trap along floor]
OOOH!! [Laughs] Oh my God!
There's a dead mouse in there!!
>>JOE: So, we've summoned Hotel Manager Ralph, to discuss our findings.
>>LISA: The female restroom,
one of the toilets is in a really bad state
>>LISA: and it has been all day. >>RALPH: Really?
>>LISA: It's blocked, and it's really not nice at all. >>RALPH: OK? Oh.
>>LISA: No one was checking that room,
because the same hairs were on the basin all day long,
from 10 o'clock, through to now.
>>LISA: We also did a test for dust mites on the mattress, using a hoover
and a special kit, and we actually found
a high level of dust-mites in the mattress.
>>LISA: Right, now moving onto the kitchen,
I'm afraid to say we did
find some cockroaches today and a dead mouse.
And I'm not surprised given the level of dirt that was underneath that area
that you've got an infestation there.