Wash your bags!

People who use reusable bags at grocery stores are so proud of themselves for not using plastic bags. Vince Carroll writes in the June 17 Denver Post, though, that two independent labs recently did a microbiological study which revealed that the reusable bags contained "high levels of bacterial, yeast, mold, and coliform counts, raising worries of food poisoning, skin infections and allergic reactions." Wash your bags people!