E-Coli in Commercial Ice Water

Articles in Hindustan Times and Times of India clearly mentioned that E-Coli was present in 92% of the ice samples ( 870 out of 948). E-Coli can lead to can lead to severe gastroenteritis, diarrhoea, vomiting, food poisoning and other illnesses.

The article states the following:

” The samples were tested in all 24 BMC wards from ice sellers, hotels, restaurants, bars, juice stalls, dairies, sweetmeat shops, ice-gola vendors, fast food outlets, lassi sellers, etc.

The development comes barely a week after bread — used widely in homes and by Mumbaikars in the form of sandwiches, ‘vada-pavs’, ‘pav-bhaji’ and other quick meals — was found to contain certain potentially carcinogenic substances.

Of the tests outcome, more than a quarter — 26 per cent — of water and food samples collected and tested from street food and drinks vendors were found to contain the bacteria, the BMC said.”