Originally Posted by
SPN Lifer
However statistically unlikely this may be, a little extra protein is good for the skin. Most of us do not ingest soap or shampoo.
Abandoning hotel toiletries seems an extreme overreaction.
Far more productive to focus on grocery store purchases of food and medicine, which have caused actual deaths.
Happy Boxing Day to you, too.
It will be very difficult to isolate a case of contaminated hotel toiletry dispensers to a specific hotel/specific room. The traveler uses dispensers in airports etc. for soap all day then gets to the hotel. Maybe if something funny happens with the shampoo then it could be traced back to the hotel but if the traveler stayed in multiple hotels on consecutive single night stays, forget it, it will not be proven.
I still am very much against these dispensers and do think this is a risk/concern but proving damages from it would not be easy. Hence few documented cases of it happening.