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09
Make Sure You Do Your Part To Keep The Office Fridge Clean
It’s times like these that the people who go out for lunch look pretty smart. The fridge is a unique aspect to office life. People store food in it, often forgetting that anything is in there. Also, the office fridge isn’t anyone’s ‘responsibility’. Both of these concepts can lead to serious mess contaminating the office fridge. Just take this story for example
In San Jose, California an office had to be evacuated due to someone cleaning out a moldy, and dirty refrigerator. The fire department, and hazmat team had to enter the office to take care of the situation.
What happened is that an office worker decided to clean out the fridge, that had become really bad off. Apparently, the chemicals that were used to clean up the mess fused with the mold and created an odor that caused the office to be nauseas. A total of 28 people had to be treated for nausea, and 7 people went to the hospital.
Let this be a lesson to make fridge upkeep a team project. That way you hopefully won’t have to deal with vomit inducing mold in the future.
[via: Yahoo]
Pretty scary to hear that, I got sick once when I cleaned a moldy pan, had to go to the hospital as well.
-Jean
That’s a pretty scary story, for sure. Atleast once every week, a brief cleanliness check has to be carried out to ensure no food is being left for too long. However, I”m not sure how the food caught mold. Maybe the fridge was turned off for an extended period of time perhaps?
Previous tenent cleaned fridge but neglected to leave doors open. So found entire fridge and freezer to be covered in mold. What do I use to clean this well and easily? Wouldn’t mind staying away from commercial cleaners, FYI.Thanks.