I thought by now that those dou­bles ven­dor who still sell their very tasty del­i­ca­cy to mem­bers of the pub­lic and to our vis­it­ing friends and fam­i­lies would have come to re­alise that much more peo­ple are be­com­ing health con­scious and as such the ven­dors need to change the man­ner in which dou­bles are sold.

I am re­fer­ring to those peo­ple who take out the dou­bles from the con­tain­ers with their bare hands. Now I know it will be said that there is an­oth­er per­son who deals with the han­dling of mon­ey on­ly, but such prac­tice is still not san­i­tary. As a hu­man be­ing, one will al­ways find some­thing to do with his/her hands.

I have al­so ob­served that what some of those ven­dors wipe their hands on a near­by damp piece of cloth. This is al­so not san­i­tary be­cause what is be­ing done is the trans­fer­ring of germs from the cloth to the hands and on­to the dou­bles, which is then con­sumed.

I am there­fore re­quest­ing thatthose dou­bles ven­dors put a stop im­me­di­ate­ly to this prac­tice and do like so many oth­er ven­dors by us­ing a spat­u­la or tongs and not­their bare hands to take out the dou­bles from the con­tain­ers. I am al­so ask­ing the Min­is­ter of Health and oth­er rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties to deal with this mat­ter ur­gent­ly. If laws have to be en­act­ed for this healthy prac­tice to be fol­lowed, then let it be done soon.

Lind­say Wheel­er

Ari­ma