The Five Second Rule?
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Have you ever heard of something called the five-second rule? Well, investigations seem to confirm what every 12-year-old knows: If you drop food on the ground, you have five seconds until it becomes infected. Biology undergraduates at Aston University in Birmingham, England, experimented with the time-honored five-second rule and declare to have discovered some fact to it. Operating under the control of microbiology educator Anthony Hilton, the scholars left toast, pasta, cookies, and sticky candy on the floor for three to thirty seconds, according to knowledge published on the university's website March tenth. The bacteria, they resolved, do a rather lousy job at moving from floor to food, particularly if the food isn't given enough time to be a target. The variety of covering mattered too since bacteria were least probable to transfer from carpet and most expected to transfer from laminate or tile, the investigation uncovered. The study contradicts findings of earlier research at Clemson University, where scientists tested how fast Salmonella Typhimurium bacteria made their way from flooring surfaces to bologna and bread and it happened instantly, the researchers found. LeJeune, a professor and head of the Food Animal Health Research Program at the center, said eating food off the floor violates pretty much every recommended method for preventing food-borne illnesses. And scientists know from previous research that our floors are littered with nasty organisms that can make us sick, even in homes where the occupants have been educated about proper cleaning, he said. Well, that is it for this article and I hope you enjoyed it.
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