Health News - About Sugar Cane Drinks

A friend whose father works for the government healthinspection passed on his info. Their job is to inspect allhawkers, their cooked food, their store hygiene, etc. Theyfound sugar cane juice has the highest content of bacteriaamong all food. In fact, it has exceeded the set limit.Hence, these guys had to find out why. They went round allsugar cane stores and watched the way the hawkers handledtheir sugar cane, wash their glasses, their entireprocedure. But they couldn't find the problem.One day, they stayed till closing time and discovered someshocking facts! Whenever, the hawkers closed their stores,they would wash the floor with detergent.. As we know, theremaining sugar canes will be placed at the back of thestore, vertically standing and as sugar canes are veryporous, they tend to absorb whatever liquid around them.Besides the soapy water, the dirt on hawkers' boots,cats' urine, etc, will all be absorbed?? Now, whenever Ieat at a hawker centre, I would warn all my friends aboutthis and of course I stopped drinking my favorite sugar canejuice.A friend, who loved sugar cane juice, was pregnant. She wasalways drinking sugar cane juice. Anyway, one day shemiscarried and the fetus was already like 6 or 7 months old,I think. When the doctors did an autopsy to find out why allof a sudden the fetus had died inside her, they found tracesof some chemical substance, which was found in cat urine...Large traces of it.While it would not be able to harm adults, it was extremelytoxic to babies, what more a fetus? So they tried todetermine how this cat urine thing could have ended up inthe fetus. This meant that it had to be digested by themother, right? And the only logical conclusion they couldcome up with was that since these sugar cane juice stallholders just leave the canes lying around on the wet anddirty floor, it would not be impossible to think that straycats could have peed on those sugar canes or near thosesugar canes. So think carefully the next time you order thatfavorite sugar cane juice!