Clean cash from a sterilized ATM, cleanliness leads to removing germs from currency in Japan

"Are there ways to make cash cleaner? One approach: ATMs that sterilize your money. Some years back, just such a machine was marketed in Japan, where cleanliness can be something of a cultural obsession. These "clean ATMs" were manufactured by a Hitachi subsidiary, Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions."




Source:Can You Catch Swine Flu From Money?,
Consumer Action by AnnaMaria Andriotis and Aleksandra Todorova , Published April 30, 2009
http://www.smartmoney.com/Spending/Travel/Can-You-Catch-Swine-Flu-from-Money/




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