１日１題リスニング： glove wearing in the kitchen

03/16/202403/19/2024

Overall costs for small restaurants increase.
Food preparation takes more time.
Employees wash their hands less often.
Dangerous bacteria spread more quickly.

Using gloves is no cleaner than using bare hands.
Food handlers prefer washing their hands to using gloves.
Many fast-food employees no longer use gloves.
Employees are now more concerned about cleanliness.

DICTATION

( ) into almost any fast-food joint and ( ) are the employees will be wearing clean-looking gloves. Your burger and fries are in safe, clean hands, right? Maybe not.

Dean Cliver, a food safety expert, says that the main purpose of gloves is to give the appearance of cleanliness to customers and health inspectors. Unfortunately, though, glove wearing tends to ( ) an attitude that washing hands is not important. ( ) worse is that dirty hands quickly contaminate gloves when the wearer puts them on.

In fact, a study of ( ) restaurants in the American Midwest found something that might cause you to lose your appetite. There was no statistical difference ( ) the amount of bacteria ( ) on food handled with gloves compared with bare hands.

Cliver and other health experts emphasize that the key ( ) safe food handling is simple: wash your hands.

内容真偽問題としてやってみて

Who’s Handling Your Food?

Walk into almost any fast-food joint and chances are the employees will be wearing clean-looking gloves. Your burger and fries are in safe, clean hands, right? Maybe not.

Dean Cliver, a food safety expert, says that the main purpose of gloves is to give the appearance of cleanliness to customers and health inspectors. Unfortunately, though, glove wearing tends to foster an attitude that washing hands is not important. What’s worse is that dirty hands quickly contaminate gloves when the wearer puts them on.

In fact, a study of 140 restaurants in the American Midwest found something that might cause you to lose your appetite. There was no statistical difference in the amount of bacteria found on food handled with gloves compared with bare hands.

Cliver and other health experts emphasize that the key to safe food handling is simple: wash your hands.

Questions No.1: What effect does glove wearing in the restaurant industry have?

Overall costs for small restaurants increase.
Food preparation takes more time.
Employees wash their hands less often.
Dangerous bacteria spread more quickly.

Questions No.2: What did the study in the American Midwest reveal about food preparation?

Using gloves is no cleaner than using bare hands.
Food handlers prefer washing their hands to using gloves.
Many fast-food employees no longer use gloves.
Employees are now more concerned about cleanliness.

語彙チェック

a fast-food joint：「ファストフード店」

chances are that S+V は、「〜の可能性が高い」

health inspectors：「衛星検査官」

cleanliness：「清潔さ・清潔さを保つこと」cleanの名詞形

foster an attitude：「態度や考え方を育てる」

foster an attitude that washing hands is not important.

attitudeが同格のthatをとっている

glove wearing：普通ならwearing gloves というところ

contaminate：「汚染する、汚す」

wearer：「着用者、携帯者」

statistical：「統計上の」

There was no difference in～：「～という点で違いはない」

解説：「なぜ間違えたのか？」

Q1.What effect does glove wearing in the restaurant industry have?

本文にglove wearing tends to foster an attitude that washing hands is not important.とあるので

正解は…3. Employees wash their hands less often.従業員が手を洗わなくなるとなります。

Q2.What did the study in the American Midwest reveal about food preparation?これは難問です。

There was no statistical difference in the amount of bacteria found on food handled with gloves compared with bare hands.「手袋をしててもしてなくてもバクテリアの量は変わらない」とあるので、

正解は…1. Using gloves is no cleaner than using bare hands.

「手袋を使用しても素手を使用するのと同じぐらい清潔ではありません。」

No 比較級+thanはas 反対の意味の形容詞as と考えるのが一般的です。

参考：

He is no taller than I am.= He is as short as I am.

He is not taller than I am. = He is shorter than I am.

全訳

ほとんどのファーストフード店に入ると、従業員は清潔な手袋を着用していることがあります。あなたのバーガーやフライは安全で清潔な手で扱われている、というわけですね。でも、実はそうでもないかもしれません。

食品安全の専門家であるディーン・クリバーによれば、手袋の主な目的は、顧客や衛生検査官に清潔さの印象を与えることです。しかし、残念ながら、手袋を着用することで手を洗うことが重要でないという考えが生まれてしまいます。さらに悪いことに、手袋を装着するとすぐに手が汚れてしまい、手袋自体が汚染されてしまうのです。

実際、アメリカ中西部の140軒のレストランを対象とした調査では、食品を手袋で取り扱った場合と素手で取り扱った場合とで、見つかった細菌の量に統計的な違いはありませんでした。

クリバー氏や他の健康専門家は、安全な食品取り扱いの鍵はシンプルであると強調しています。それは、手を洗うことです。