Yes, Virginia, your soap and dispenser are not actually clean #shocking #microBEnet
A new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology is not surprisingly getting a bunch of press “Bacterial Hand Contamination and Transfer after Use of Contaminated Bulk-Soap-Refillable Dispensers” by Zapka et al. I note the article is freely available online. Some of the news stories about this include: Bacteria-Laden Soap Not So Clean : Discovery …