The average mobile phone carries 18 times more potentially harmful germs than a flush handle in a men’s toilet, tests have revealed.
One of the phones in the test had such high levels of bacteria that it could have given its owner a serious stomach upset.
One of the phones in the test had such high levels of bacteria that it could have given its owner a serious stomach upset.
The findings from a sample of dozens of phones by which? Magazine suggests 14.7 million of the 63 million mobiles in use in Britain today could be potential health hazards, reports the Daily Mail.
Hygiene expert Jim Francis, who carried out the tests, said: “The levels of potentially harmful bacteria on one mobile were off the scale. That phone needs sterilising.”






