[attrition] Girl's Science Project May Make You Rethink That Drink Order

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Girl's Science Project May Make You Rethink That Drink Order

By MICHELE SAGER , The Tampa Tribune
Tampa Bay Online

TAMPA - Those ice-cold drinks from favorite fast food restaurants may not 
seem as refreshing after a seventh-grader's science project reveals what 
may lurk inside the cup.

Benito Middle School student Jasmine Roberts examined the amount of 
bacteria in ice served at fast food restaurants.

Her project won the science fair at the New Tampa school, and she hopes to 
win a top prize at the Hillsborough County Regional Science and 
Engineering Fair, which starts Tuesday.

The 12-year-old compared the ice used in the drinks with the water from 
toilet bowls in the same restaurants. Jasmine said she found the results 
startling.

"I thought there might be a little bacteria in the ice, but I never 
expected it to be this much," she said. "And I never thought the toilet 
water would be cleaner."

Her discovery: Seventy percent of the time, the ice had more bacteria than 
the toilet water.

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URL: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11318353/