The handle of a car is dirty with bacteria more than nine times as much as the toilet seat of a public toilet

A terrible survey result was announced that 9 times more bacteria are attached to the handle of the public toilet seat than toilet seat.

If you are driving a car, there may be people who remember having drunk coffee, baked gum, or even ate snacks while driving, but if you have such a practice , It seems that the interior of the car is supposed to become a hotbed of bacteria.

Survey results on the space inside the car that is unexpectedly dirty are as follows.How clean is your car: Steering wheels have nine times more germs than public toilet seat | Mail Online

Home center brand development centering on the UK b>B & amp; QAccording to a survey conducted by the company, it turned out that 9 times the bacteria on the car's handle are attached to the toilet seat of the public toilet.

There are 80 bacteria living in the toilet 1 square inch (6.4516 square centimeters), but on the other hand, there seems to be 700 bacteria lurking inside the car interior, much more than it.

And when we took a questionnaire to the driver, 42% answered "I am eating while driving". Moreover, only one-third of all respondents answered "I am cleaning the space inside the car", and 10% of them responded that they vacuumed the inside of the car and cleaned the inside of the car I answered that it was never more than once.


Ron Cutler, professor of biomedicine at Queen Mary University, said, "Although it is unlikely to cause health hazards for most bacteria, harmful species of bacteria have also been discovered from some of the vehicles examined this time There are few people who clean the inside of the car just like cleaning the house and they are not aware that they are going around the trash can. "

In addition, we warned people who are in the habit of eating in the cars that they should be especially careful, "Especially if you are eating or leaving the garbage, the car is the best space to breed bacteria We will probably hurt our health by bacteria, so we recommend cleaning the interior of the car on a regular basis. "

By the way, the dirtiest in the car is trunk that there are as many as 1000 bacteria in about 1.27 square centimeters. It may also cause food poisoning, it is also detected from rice, pasta, potatoes, etc.Bacillus cereus, It seems that bacteria of the genus Arthrobacter which is attached mainly to the soil and human epidermis have been detected.

In this survey we are also asked about car inspections etc, but it seems that 66% of those who depart without inspecting whether there is enough oil and cooling water in front of a long drive will go up. In addition, the contents of a questionnaire such as "66% of people do not know how to replace tires", "33% of drivers who can not judge the timing of tire change by themselves" are cited.

Looking at these answers, it seems that it is a result that supports the fact that there are unexpectedly many people who do not customize cars, including cleaning in the car. I think that there are a lot of people who have not had time to clean the entire interior of the car quite often, but it may be good to start with cleaning around the steering wheel or driver's seat.