Five Second Rule for Food on Floor Is Untrue
You may think your floors are so clean you can eat off them, but a new study debunking the so-called five-second rule would suggest otherwise.
Professor Donald W. Schaffner, a food microbiologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, said a two-year study he led concluded that no matter how fast you pick up food that falls on the floor, you will pick up bacteria with it.
The findings in the report — “Is the five-second rule real?” — appeared online this month in the American Society for Microbiology’s journal,Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Excerpted from nytimes.com
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