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Originally Posted by llmcdaniel
As of Jan. 1, 2020, Oregon banned all plastic bags from grocery stores. This sounds environmentally friendly, but there is a huge health hazard, too. The University of Arizona and Loma Linda University have both discovered unacceptable amounts of ecoli and salmonella bacteria in cloth and canvas bags used for bagging groceries. Meat juices tend to leak onto the material and can contaminate everything in your bag. Their suggestions are that you put the canvas and cloth bags thru your washing machine on hot water after every use. If you use the insulated bags to keep meat and ice cream cold until you get home, wipe the interior down with anti-bacterial wipes after every use. Please don’t be careless about this, as it appears plastic bags are on the way out nationwide.😉
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You can also buy heavy-duty plastic bags, that can be used for all the "wet" foods in your cloth bag. Insulated bags are also washable. I use an insulated bag, plus the heavy duty ones you can get at Aldi's for something like 25 cents, plus a couple of cloth bags. The cloth bags never have anything leaking in it as a result, and I don't have to wash them after each use.