Posted on Jun 14, 2016
Is there really a five-second rule about food on the floor?
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When you drop a piece of food on the floor, is it really OK to eat if you pick up within five seconds? This urban food myth contends that if food spends just a few seconds on the floor, dirt and germs won't have much of a chance to contaminate it.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/10/health/five-second-rule-food-on-floor/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/10/health/five-second-rule-food-on-floor/index.html
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My wife thinks so and then there's the eat a pound of dirt before you die as well...!!!
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski I have my own rule - I pick it up, brush it off or rinse it off and keeping eating, cooking, or whatever part of the process I'm in. Look at some the chow we've eaten in the field with bugs, nats, and other kinds of crap flying around (protein baby)!
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5 seconds is a very arbitrary standard SP5 Mark Kuzinski :-)
A split second on the floor of a meat slaughterhouse or un-cleaned military latrine or prison latrine floor would be too much time for those with 'sensitive" digestive systems.
I drop cardio or pain medicine on the floor and it rolls under the bed with the dust groupings. I generally take a little while to find the pill, then dust it off and take it.
As far as food dropping in restaurants and kitchens and dining areas, if it is dry food it is okay to pick it up and eat it within less than a minute [is that a New York minute :-)]
Wet food generally is not good to eat off the floor unless you are a dog :-)
A split second on the floor of a meat slaughterhouse or un-cleaned military latrine or prison latrine floor would be too much time for those with 'sensitive" digestive systems.
I drop cardio or pain medicine on the floor and it rolls under the bed with the dust groupings. I generally take a little while to find the pill, then dust it off and take it.
As far as food dropping in restaurants and kitchens and dining areas, if it is dry food it is okay to pick it up and eat it within less than a minute [is that a New York minute :-)]
Wet food generally is not good to eat off the floor unless you are a dog :-)
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It is true, and my 8 grade science class testes this out in 2003, they dropped food on the floor and picked it up at five seconds and culture the food, nothings grew. We did discovered that max time is 8 seconds.
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Depends on what's dropped and the "floor" it's dropped on, could also involve hand to paw combat with my dog.
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