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    Thai Restaurants in tourist areas feeding farangs poo

    Tourists warned of bacteria contamination at food shops



    Coliform bacteria have contaminated utensils at many food shops around tourist attractions, according to the Health Department.
    "The contamination can cause diarrhoea and food poisoning," the department's academic Anocha Charoenpornkijwattana said Sunday.
    According to her, the information came from the Health Department's study on hygienic standards at 12 attractions across the country. As more than half of food shops in these attractions have participated in the department's Clean Food Good Taste project, the study focused on the non-participating food shops only.
    "We have detected coliform-bacteria contamination on their plates, ice tongs, cooks' hands and waiters' hands," Anocha said.
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    How do they know that.?

    They didn't check the shops that were doing the project, no sign that they are any cleaner that any others..

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    Gotta agree with bg here, the other ones just haven't been tested.

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    Is this in Bang Lam Poo?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
    Anocha Charoenpornkijwattana
    that could equal the worlds longest surname. 21 characters according to this website:

    Longest last name in the world was? Longest surname..

    yeah, im bored tonight

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    Can't say I'm surprised at the news but I can't see anywhere in the OP or The Nation where it says these shops were only selling to farangs, hard as it may be for some people to realise many tourists in Thailand are not westerners or even foreigners. Whole article is a waste of space as it says nothing about where the restaurants are or what they're called. BTW, the clean food, good taste project randomly tests participants and has been overseen and tested by the World Health Organisation. I would guess that the fact that the others were part of clean food, good taste meant that they HAD been tested sometime in the last year or so and that there was no requirement to test them again at that time.

    "Until now, 5,377 restaurants (of 11,731 who applied) and 3,045 vendors (of 6,843 who applied) have passed the criteria and been awarded the Clean Food Good Taste logo to be displayed at their businesses. The success of the Clean Food Good Taste Project is due to four great strategies used: partnerships and co-ownership, quality assurance, sustainability, and public awareness and involvement."

    FAO/WHO Global Forum of Food Safety Regulators
    Marrakech, Morocco, 28 - 30 January 2002
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    But I don't think that sign means much either, I have yet to ever see anyone, patron or employee or employer ever wash their hands, I mean wash with soap and water, not just get em damn and dry them on a dirty rag.
    even after petting and playing with a cat or dog, pick something up from the floor, or ever wash a dish in clean water with soap, just slosh them or the utensils around in a bucket of dirty water and thats it, and the water is most likely where a lot of the coliforms are coming from, cesspools all over the place, a well sunk 4 meters in the ground right next to the cesspool and that water used for sanitary water for the joint and the dishes.
    Damn and people wonder why I never eat away from home over 3 times a year,,, Damn..

    We have one of those wells too, we haven't pumped out of it in years, we use harvested roof water for all household uses, and drink and cook with bottle water.
    There is an electric tankless water heater right next to the sink and the dishes are washed in hot rain water, thats about as good as we can get it.

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    Some of the younger folks here have an immune system, you know. I rarely get the squits, and I eat most things here.

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    makes no fokin dif to me, eat what ever you want.
    Myself, I am a little choosy when it comes to eating shit. I was raised by clean people that were civilized and was taught to wash my hands, respect others food and keep it clean, now if you were raised to eat with the hogs and sleep under the fukin house, then thats your business, I wasn't.

    When I have had to work out in the brush and eat with the locals that was a little diff, but I do not have to do it because it makes me feel good and brings back childhood memories.

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    I am glad you benefitted from your German upbringing, pity you didn't manage to pass the values on to the next generation.
    Now, in old age you otta be careful with the nurse you employ, as you don't have the same tastebuds, 48 years on the booze take their toll, you know. You might just get some shite spoonfed to you, like that makrut you mistook for a lemon before without noticing any difference in taste.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackgang
    I was raised by clean people that were civilized
    And none of those good traits rubbed off on you

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    How in the fuck do you know,, Have you ever met me or spent any time in my company??

    Just like to run your fucking mouth tho..

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    If you live in asia for a while you develop an asian belly, and you don't get poisoned too often. I've only had gastro once in the year i've been living here- and that was last week!
    Thailand ain't switzerland, but it's a whole lot safer than indonesia food wise. And I reckon that 'clean food, good taste' initiative has been helpful in improving standards.

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    I'm thankful that activated charcoal tablets are available in Thailand.

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    What a load of scaremongering bollox !

    Coliform bacteria are found everywhere ...we are covered with them, so saying that they are found on utensils means nothing ... you wouldnt expect anything else.

    Its only when you find E. Coli which itself is an indicator of faecal contamination somewhere down the line that there can be problems.

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