Health Alert - Stop drinking those Fresh Sugar Cane Drinks !

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!

Let's take action to make this world a better & safer place for ALL of
us & the generations to come.