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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday April 01 2017, @08:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-I-lick-it,-it-belongs-to-me dept.

Food that has been dropped on the floor is usually safe to eat under the so-called "five-second rule", a scientist has said.

Germ expert Professor Anthony Hilton, from Aston University, said that although retrieving these morsels can never be completely without risk, there is little to be concerned about if the food is only there momentarily.

Professor Hilton will be demonstrating how the five-second rule works at The Big Bang Fair – a celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) for young people – which opens on Wednesday at the NEC in Birmingham.

He said: "Eating food that has spent a few moments on the floor can never be entirely risk-free. Obviously, food covered in visible dirt shouldn't be eaten, but as long as it's not obviously contaminated, the science shows that food is unlikely to have picked up harmful bacteria from a few seconds spent on an indoor floor."


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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Lagg on Saturday April 01 2017, @10:22PM (7 children)

    by Lagg (105) on Saturday April 01 2017, @10:22PM (#487737) Homepage Journal

    Oh sorry I forgot discussion is frowned upon here. Just got back to SN. You see I just deleted my twitter account because I got tired of easily offended cynical nerds freaking out whenever the discussion wasn't parroting or debunking within an overly narrow topic.

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  • (Score: 2) by IndigoFreak on Sunday April 02 2017, @12:35AM (6 children)

    by IndigoFreak (3415) on Sunday April 02 2017, @12:35AM (#487762)

    Oh. You're just a troll masquerading as a person wanting a discussion. You're easy to spot since you reply with nothing to say. And then come back again with off topic attacks.

    If you want a discussion then actually discuss the topic at hand. Don't blame everyone else because you make no argument and attack straw men. Your comment about the immune system does not show up in the original article nor in the one I linked. If your take away from either news story was about immune systems fighting off bacteria found on the ground then I would recommend you take some reading comprehension classes. Your comment was so left field it didn't need to be a reply to mine, nor anyone else's.

    • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Lagg on Sunday April 02 2017, @12:53AM (5 children)

      by Lagg (105) on Sunday April 02 2017, @12:53AM (#487770) Homepage Journal

      It's like what happens when aforementioned nerds from twitter jump off the spectrum and into an uncapped post length.

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      • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday April 02 2017, @02:00AM (4 children)

        by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Sunday April 02 2017, @02:00AM (#487783) Journal

        I agree that the other commenter here could have been a little nicer, but I don't get your animosity. It is a bit unclear why you replied to the first post in this thread; it might have made more sense to just begin a new thread. The OP then replies to say he didn't understand how your post connected to his, but you just release the vitriol for no apparent reason.

        What is it you wanted to discuss? Why are you acting like a jerk rather than just discussing what you wanted to say? I think conversation on the immune system stuff would be an interesting side thread, but apparently you're more interested in complaining about how you're not actually discussing stuff.

        • (Score: 1, Troll) by Lagg on Sunday April 02 2017, @02:14AM (3 children)

          by Lagg (105) on Sunday April 02 2017, @02:14AM (#487787) Homepage Journal

          Well, to be quite honest and with sincere and great apology to those that must read this shit. It's a catharsis for me to react to pointless viciousness and hostility with passiveness in return. And yes i do believe I was being passive from moment 1 since it started as a legit question to drive discussion.

          It's true, it would have been an interesting discussion. But I immediately lost any satisfaction from that in favor of the satisfaction gained form replying to the raging jackass above that seems to have a problem with original thought I guess. Honestly, part of my reaction might be because I really don't know what I did wrong. Could understand if it wasn't topical. But is it not? Either way, it was a derailment that was quite unnecessary.

          For what it's worth though I still love the site and nerds therein. I fully deserve the tender mercies of the moderators. But I do hope no one judges me in the future if seeing me again because really as you can see in my post history I'm not that bad :D

          P.S. I did make a new thread, and since I have a thing about not posting raging misinformation I was attempting to gain strong evidence against my own thoughts based on the article. Had a reply actually provided evidence against my reckoning instead of something that grep could tell me I would have replied to my own post with that clarification. As I've done in the past.

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          • (Score: 2) by IndigoFreak on Sunday April 02 2017, @03:23AM (2 children)

            by IndigoFreak (3415) on Sunday April 02 2017, @03:23AM (#487807)

            I'm sorry. I didn't realize your intent was to pick a post at random and make the person you replied to explain why the immune system was not referenced in the articles and has no bearing on what the poster's article and the OP was about. And to be quite frank, if asking what your point is and why you are replying is being rude enough to set you off, you will have a hard time on the internet. But you know that after being chased off twitter.

            • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Lagg on Sunday April 02 2017, @03:53AM (1 child)

              by Lagg (105) on Sunday April 02 2017, @03:53AM (#487813) Homepage Journal

              and there's where you go off and turn the ADHD knob to 11 again in not understanding how to correlate topics. I would challenge you to explain how resistance would not be related to bacterial contamination. And honestly I'd challenge you to back your original nonsense about debunking in the first place when the researcher never claimed grabbing it under 5 seconds meant it was bacteria-free. He said something I figured was pretty much agreed upon: something dropped on the floor only gets more contaminated over time. If it has obvious contamination like dirt or vomit. It'll probably be bad for you.

              "Eating food that has spent a few moments on the floor can never be entirely risk-free."

              “That is not to say that germs can't transfer from the floor to the food.

              “Our research has shown that the nature of the floor surface, the type of food dropped on the floor and the length of time it spends on the floor can all have an impact on the number that can transfer.”

              Am I missing something? Is this a debunked myth like rubbing grinded up rhino powder on your nuts? This is legitimately all the guy was saying from what I can tell. Please don't make me explain why I assumed they were related to contamination level versus resistance. Or did you just read the first hook sentence that claimed he said it was "safe to eat"? Like this is a tiny article.

              Oh and it was less being chased off twitter and more that I really don't need twitter right now. Surely it can be assumed why without opening cans of worms that one shouldn't when dealing with science.

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              • (Score: 3, Touché) by IndigoFreak on Sunday April 02 2017, @03:57AM

                by IndigoFreak (3415) on Sunday April 02 2017, @03:57AM (#487814)

                See my second reply to your first reply for the answers to your questions.