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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."
(Score: 2) by IndigoFreak on Sunday April 02 2017, @03:23AM (2 children)
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)
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
See my second reply to your first reply for the answers to your questions.