The five-second rule: Is it really safe to eat food off the ground?

November 13, 2006

If the floor has bacteria on it, even one to two seconds is enough to contaminate the food.



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{ 3 comments }

1 db November 13, 2006 at 1:22 pm

i once saw a pathology tech eat something off the floor that was routinely covered in body parts and fluids.

enough to make me cringe

2 Anonymous November 13, 2006 at 5:01 pm

Kev,

There was already an episode on MythBusters about this already.

3 beajerry November 15, 2006 at 9:16 am

It’s 10 seconds.

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