According to new reports, your handbag could be housing up to 10,000 different types of bacteria.
Research from Germany has found that most handbags contain as many as 10,000 bacteria in just a few square centimetres – even filthier than the average toilet seat.
And the irony is, we probably clean our toilets more often than we clean out our handbags!
On a serious note, many of us use our handbags as a dumping ground for bits of food, rubbish and old makeup meaning that bacteria can build up in the lining and not be removed for years.
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As a typical human being has ~100 trillion bacteria in their gut, I would not worry too much about bacterial risks from typical handbags. In my opinion, there are too many scare articles of this nature. Would sterilisation of all handbags significantly improve public health?