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Starbucks, Costa and Caffe Nero are serving drinks with traces of POO

The results of tests will stun coffee fans splashing out on their favourite cooling iced drinks

Traces of faecal bacteria have been found in Britain’s biggest coffee houses.

According to experts, Caffe Nero, Costa and Starbucks are serving up cups laced with grim matter, an investigation has revealed.

The Mirror reports lab tests in a probe by BBC One show Watchdog found levels were “off the scale”.

The results of tests will stun coffee fans splashing out on their favourite cooling iced drinks which are popular during the summer.

Ice collected from the high street brands found poor levels of hygiene with seven out of ten samples from Costa drinks contaminated with bacteria found in faeces.

Three out of ten samples tested from both Starbucks and Caffe Nero were also found to contain coliform bacteria which is a huge concern as the bugs can cause illness.

Unwashed hands are the most likely cause of dirty ice and Tony Lewis head of policy and education at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health said of the show’s findings: “The level of contamination of faecal bacteria concerns me a great deal.”

He told Watchdog: “The bacteria found are opportunistic pathogens – the source of human disease. These should not be present at any level – never mind the significant numbers found.”