Avoid Drinking Fresh Sugar Cane Juice

I know this from a colleague whose father is working with the Ministry of the Environment in S'pore.
Health News - About Sugar Cane Drinks
A friend whose father works for the government health inspection
passed on his info. Their job is to inspect all hawkers, their
cooked food, their store hygiene, etc. They found sugar cane juice has
the highest content of bacteria among all food. In fact, it has
exceeded the set limit. Hence, these guys had to find out why.
They went round all sugar cane stores and watched the way the hawkers handled their
sugar cane, wash their glasses, their entire procedure. But they
couldn't find the problem.

One day, they stayed till closing time and discovered some
shocking facts! Whenever, the hawkers closed their stores, they
would wash the floor with detergent. As we know, the remaining sugar
canes will be placed at the back of the store, vertically standing and
as sugar canes are very porous, they tend to absorb whatever liquid
around them. Besides the soapy water, the dirt on hawkers' boots,
cats' urine,etc, will all be absorbed??

Now, whenever I eat at a hawker centre, I would warn all my
friends about this and of course I stopped drinking my favourite
sugar cane juice.

A friend, who loved sugar cane juice, was pregnant. She was
always drinking sugar cane juice. Anyway, one day she miscarried
and the fetus was already like 6 or 7 months old, I think. When the
doctors did an autopsy to find out why all of a sudden the fetus had died
inside her, they found traces of some chemical substance, which was
found in cat urine. Large traces of it.
While it would not be able to harm adults, it was extremely toxic
to babies,what more a fetus? So they tried to determine how this
cat urine thing could have ended up in the fetus. This meant that it
had to be digested by the mother, right?

And the only logical conclusion they could come up with was that
since these sugar cane juice stall holders just leave the canes
lying around on the wet and dirty floor, it would not be impossible
to think that stray cats could have peed on those sugar canes or near
those sugar canes. So think carefully the next time you order that
favourite sugar cane juice!