7 Everyday Items You Should Avoid Sharing
By The HealthCentral Editorial Team

Shopping carts

Shopping carts

You've probably seen the "cleaning stations" stocked with wipes and hand sanitizer cropping up in the past few years next to the carts at many grocery stores. This is due to recent studies that have discovered such contagions as Salmonella, MRSA, and E. coli on shopping carts. In fact, in one study scientists found E.coli on 80 percent of the shopping carts in some parts of the country!

Maybe those wipes and sanitizers aren't such a crazy idea after all?

By The HealthCentral Editorial Team— Last Modified: 03/28/2012, First Published: 09/13/2011