Is There Really A Five-Second Rule About Food On The Floor?
Are your employees being break-room conscious about food safety? The article below gives more insight on the "five-second" rule and how it may effect your employees safety.
Original Post from CNN.com on June 15, 2016
When you drop a piece of food on the floor, is it really OK to eat if you pick up within five seconds? This urban food myth contends that if food spends just a few seconds on the floor, dirt and germs won't have much of a chance to contaminate it. Research in my lab has focused on how food and food contact surfaces become contaminated, and we've done some work on this particular piece of wisdom.
Where did the five-second rule come from?
Five seconds is all it takes
Should you eat food that's fallen on the floor?
Paul Dawson is professor of food science at Clemson University. This article was originally published onThe Conversation, a nonprofit news site publishing research from academia for the public.
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Source:
Dawson, P. (2016, June 15). Is there really a five-second rule about food on the floor? [Web log post]. Retrieved from https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/10/health/five-second-rule-food-on-floor/index.html