James Silverton wrote:
>
> Goomba wrote on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:25:54 -0400:
>
> >> Yes they shouldn't of handled the muffins, but Tesco seems to
> >> be alittle heavy handed, as most of the comments of the story
> >> stated. With the amount of waste most food stores have, they could of
> >> just put the two muffins in the garbage and left it at that. It was
> >> mentioned that Tesco targets younger persons,
> >> I'm sure they wouldn't get away with pulling this crap
> >> on someone older.
>
> There are two views on the subject of exposure to natural contaminants.
> It has been shown that kids who grow up in less than pristine
> circumstances with pets and messing around in gardens have less
> allergies than those kept clinically clean. On the other hand, there was
> a dumb call from some professor in England to close petting zoos to
> avoid the poor dears being exposed to horrible things.

Four petting farms in the UK have been closed
because of an outbreak of E. coli O157 among
children.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/se...s-children-ban

This isn't dumb advice.