Poop in Your Pop?

With links to obesity and diabetes, sodas have been taking a beating lately. Now comes news that almost half of the soda fountains in fast food restaurants contain bacteria, possibly from...well let's just say it's pretty gross.

From SlashFood...

A group of microbiologists at Virginia's Hollins University found alarming levels of bacteria, possibly from feces, in fast-food soda fountains.

A scary 48 percent of machine beverages tested contained coliform bacteria – which can originate in fecal matter, the International Journal of Food Microbiology study showed. Even more worrying: Most of the bacteria identified were resistant to antibiotics.

I'm still trying to figure out how it gets there.