{"id":144,"date":"2012-05-14T20:12:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T00:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletinbag.mivamerchant.net\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:59:43","slug":"reusable-bags-do-not-cause-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bulletinbag.com\/blog\/reusable-bags-do-not-cause-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Reusable Bags Do Not Cause Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/paper_plastic_neither_bag.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-137\" alt=\"paper_plastic_neither_bag\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/paper_plastic_neither_bag-205x300.jpg\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bulletinbag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/paper_plastic_neither_bag-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.bulletinbag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/paper_plastic_neither_bag.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>If you\u2019re like us, you\u2019re getting tired of \u201cstudies\u201d that make reusable grocery bags out to be nasty breeding grounds for every gross germ in the universe and the reason why plastic is better. The thing that really makes you sick? Not using common sense!<\/p>\n<p class=\"jce_caption\">You may have read that last week, some Oregon researchers investigated a recent outbreak of norovirus amongst members of a girls&#8217; soccer team. We won\u2019t gross you out with the details, but suffice it to say that a girl got sick, and seven other players and chaperones fell ill even though nobody had come in direct contact with the original patient after she first displayed symptoms. The common link? **Insert scary music** A reusable grocery bag of snacks that had been stored in the bathroom.Yep, all of the sick people ate cookies that were stored in that reusable bag. How did the nasty bug get to the cookies? You can read the dirty details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/05\/09\/reusable-shopping-bags-stomach-flu_n_1503011.html?ref=email_share\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jce_caption\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"jce_caption\">The real takeaway from this \u201cshocking\u201d study is that reusable bags do NOT cause illness. Lack of common sense does. Don\u2019t store food in a bathroom (gross!),\u00a0 thoroughly clean an environment in which a sick person was taking care of, ahem, business, and for the love of Pete&#8211;JUST WASH YOUR REUSABLE BAGS. Case closed. Don\u2019t believe us? Read more about this recent news story and one person\u2019s quest to be plastic free: http:\/\/myplasticfreelife.com\/2012\/05\/dont-be-fooled-by-reusable-bag-norovirus-scare\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"jce_caption\">And if you don\u2019t know the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletinbag.com\/faqs\/washing-reusable-bags.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">best way to wash a particular reusable bag<\/a>, we wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletinbag.com\/faqs\/washing-reusable-bags.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">this handy-dandy blog<\/a> a while back. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re like us, you\u2019re getting tired of \u201cstudies\u201d that make reusable grocery bags out to be nasty breeding grounds for every gross germ in the universe and the reason why plastic is better. The thing that really makes you sick? Not using common sense! 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