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Bags for life could give you food poisoning, warn experts

That must explain why Brits have been dying in their thousands since the introduction of the 5p charge for carriers. Oh, hang on nobody has died for that reason. We survived fine before carrier bags, as we had string bags for veg and we were sensible about how we packed our message bags. - Elizabeth Summerfield Rubbish! We’ve used same colour reusable bags for donkey’s years without any problems whatsoever. - Gjermund Austvik Why don’t people just spray and wipe them with dettol? - Bridget Barrett How did our grandparents survive? - Raafje Springer OMG this is such a nanny state, do this, don’t do that. They decided on plastic 5p bags now we need half a dozen to go to the store. Can’t they just leave us alone to die of whatever unknown illness will get us? - Helenor Hamilton These people are not experts. If they can’t do anything better than to invent risks and then scaremonger about them, then they are surplus to requirements and should be made redundant. - Alastair Browne