Is Eating Off The Floor Bad

By rob dunn on january 29 2012.

Is eating off the floor bad.

New york sep 11 ians food once dropped on the floor is not safe to eat however quickly you pick it up warns a new study that debunks the widely accepted notion that it is all right to scoop up food and eat it within a safe five second window. In some instances the transfer begins in less than one second. Moisture type of surface and contact time all contribute to cross contamination. Occasionally eating food that was briefly on the floor is not likely to make you sick.

I imagined a cover with a kid licking cookies off of the floor beside a neat freak father holding. There s a big difference between picking up a cracker from a just cleaned dry kitchen floor probably safe versus the floor near the cat litter box not. Wondering if food is still ok to eat after it s been dropped on the floor or anywhere else is a pretty common experience. Wondering if food is still ok to eat after it s been dropped on the floor or anywhere else is a pretty common experience.

How clean living is bad for you. And it s probably not a new one either. These are definite eating off the floor no nos. Eating off the floor.

Also unhealthy and unsuitable for consumption five second rule or not are objects picked up from the ground outdoors where less benign germs those from dog poop for instance make their unwholesome home. So even while the possibility of getting sick is still slim if you have a compromised immune system don t take any chances by eating food that s been on the floor dawson says. But it depends on what you drop and where. And it s probably not a new one either.

Eating food off the floor may be ok scientist says a microbiologist experiments with dropping food on various surfaces to see how much bacteria they pick up.