http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/03/1362005/-Republican-senator-says-restaurants-should-be-able-to-opt-out-of-mandatory-handwashing?detail=email
North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis is not so sure we need laws requiring food service employees to wash their hands:
Tillis made the declaration at to the Bipartisan Policy Center, at the end of a question and answer with the audience. He was relaying a 2010 anecdote about his “bias when it comes to regulatory reform.”
“I was having a discussion with someone, and we were at a Starbucks in my district, and we were talking about certain regulations where I felt like ‘maybe you should allow businesses to opt out,’” he said, “as long as they indicate through proper disclosure, through advertising, through employment literature, or whatever else.”
Restaurants can just opt-out and let the free market take care of business after word spreads of unsanitary conditions. Never mind that a lack of hand washing by food service employees accounts for the vast majority of food contamination:
The spread of germs from the hands of food workers to food is an important cause of foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurants. It accounts for 89% of outbreaks in which food was contaminated by food workers. Proper handwashing can reduce germs on workers’ hands and the spread of germs from hands to food and from food to other people.
now if they can just close down those pesky regulatory agencies that keep us safe from things like this you too will be free to eat whatever was crawling around in the underwear of your friendly most likely germ infested server, gee republicans are really looking out for you there's an 11% chance you won't be involved in a outbreak from unclean hands handling your food, it's true republicans keep us safe, well at least 11% of the time.
