Dirty Pine-Sol: I had read that a batch of Pine-Sol was infected with bacteria. I just received an email from Sam's Club telling be that I could bring it in for a refund. I guess...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I had read that a batch of Pine-Sol was infected with bacteria. I just received an email from Sam's Club telling be that I could bring it in for a refund. I guess better safe than sorry. Getting sick from a disinfectant is a perfect example of irony.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Yes, that seems weird to me that a product that is supposed to kill bacteria can get infected with bacteria. Maybe the product isn’t what it is advertised to be.

Stan

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

StanMac wrote:

Yes, that seems weird to me that a product that is supposed to kill bacteria can get infected with bacteria. Maybe the product isn’t what it is advertised to be.

Stan

Yeah, you gotta wonder.

I always wonder when they say a product kills 99.99% of bacteria. What about that 0.01% that thrives in that poison. That must be some tough bacteria.

FreddB Loc: PA - Delaware County

Killing virtually ALL bacteria means it's not just killing harmful bacteria. It's killing the beneficial bacteria, too.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

FreddB wrote:

Killing virtually ALL bacteria means it's not just killing harmful bacteria. It's killing the beneficial bacteria, too.

Maybe they're the ones swimming around happily in Clorox.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Jerry, in a somewhat related situation, bacteria thrive in the spigots that dispense draft beer where the residue provides a perfect breeding ground for nutrition. Bacteria, as well as many of the bad things dispersed by flies, thrive in the ketchup pump dispenser nozzles in restaurants. There have also been reported cases of maggots growing in them. Yummy...!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

sippyjug104 wrote:

Jerry, in a somewhat related situation, bacteria thrive in the spigots that dispense draft beer where the residue provides a perfect breeding ground for nutrition. Bacteria, as well as many of the bad things dispersed by flies, thrive in the ketchup pump dispenser nozzles in restaurants. There have also been reported cases of maggots growing in them. Yummy...!

We are surrounded by filth!

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

sippyjug104 wrote:

Jerry, in a somewhat related situation, bacteria thrive in the spigots that dispense draft beer where the residue provides a perfect breeding ground for nutrition. Bacteria, as well as many of the bad things dispersed by flies, thrive in the ketchup pump dispenser nozzles in restaurants. There have also been reported cases of maggots growing in them. Yummy...!

Sippy, I'm also from Missouri, St Joseph, and we have health inspections of our restuarants and other eating establishments such as school lunch rooms. The results are reported in our paper, The Daily Disappointment. Places get dinged every now and then for having dirty nozzles on their pop dispensers. I can't recall a tavern being written up for having a dirty beer dispensing nozzle. Maybe they need to start inspecting them as well. Or perhaps we should review how many people are actually harmed from "beer nozzle fungus" and just continue to allow folks to quaff at their own happy risk.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

RodeoMan wrote:

Sippy, I'm also from Missouri, St Joseph, and we h... (show quote)

Old Boy Scout Mantra:

What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger!

Bret P Loc: California

LOL, waiting for my rebate, my Lemon Pinesol was the bad batch, half-gone, wonder what is growing on my floor now. (Switched to Lysol.)

I wondered about that, too ... It is only the Original Pine-scent Pinesol with pineoil that is anti-bacterial (kills 99.9% of germs). The Lemon and others are not anti-bacterial and those are the recall.

They say: Our scented Pine-Sol® multi-surface cleaners, including Lemon Fresh®, Lavender Clean® and Sparkling Wave®, are powerful cleaners and deodorizers that cut through tough grease, grime and dirt, but don't disinfect.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Bret P wrote:

LOL, waiting for my rebate, my Lemon Pinesol was t... (show quote)

Aha!