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Not Your Usual Holiday-Danger Warning: Don't Eat the Grill Brush

July 4, 2012 By Maryn Leave a Comment

See the wires dangling from the tuft of bristles at the lower-right corner of the image? Don’t eat them.

It’s kind of a tradition, on Independence Day, for health journalists to relay warnings from public-health authorities. Wear sunscreen, watch the alcohol, don’t leave kids alone in pools, don’t stick sparklers in your eye — that kind of thing. They are important to say, because they might actually prevent someone getting injured, but they are dully familiar, because we’ve heard them all before.

Here’s one I suspect no one has heard before: Don’t swallow your grill brush, it will puncture your intestine.

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Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: food, food policy, Grill, Science Blogs

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