NEW YORK: Lather up: the hand-wringing over hand-washing - (New York Times)
February 25, 2008 – 8:10 pmhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/lather-up-the-hand-wringing-over-hand-washing/
Signs saying, Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning to Work, are required by the city health code in all bathrooms in restaurants and bars. Some signs are available in Spanish and Chinese, as well as English.
But apparently, the Health Departments oversight of restaurant hand-washing even extends outside the bathrooms. It issued a Hepatitis A warning on Thursday after discovering there was no soap behind the bar at Socialista, a code violation, when it found that a bartender who worked there was infected with Hepatitis A.
City Room called up the Soap and Detergent Association, a Washington-based industry trade association, to get their thoughts on the missing soap. (The groups Web site, Cleaning 101, is too cute.)
The association is indeed on Rue de Lobbyists, the fabled K Street, just two blocks from the White House.
Brian Sansoni, the associations vice president of communications, after he browsed Socialistas online menu, was quoted as saying, […]
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