Nursing’s Shanina Knighton highlights health risks of self-serve coffee stations
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HuffPost: Shanina Knighton, research associate professor at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, warned that self-serve coffee stations can harbor bacteria. She advised avoiding contaminated touchpoints, watching for moisture and residue—not just cleanliness—and remembering that poor maintenance, not bacteria alone, poses the greatest risk.
