Five second Rule

Quick! Pick it up and blow! Haven’t we all dropped that tasty little morsel of food and couldn’t quite throw it in the trash? After all, if you pick it up within 5 seconds, isn’t it safe that no germs have settled on it yet? Well, think again! There is a new study that we all should heed.

Prof. Donald Schaffner and researchers of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, have reported their findings in the American Society for Microbiology’s journal, Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that around 1 in 6 people in the …read more