Article: To eat or not to eat: seniors prove "five-second rule" more like 30
Goettsche added that they designed their procedure to test the rule in an everyday environment. Previous research on the rule, she said, was conducted by a University of Illinois researcher in 2003 and involved dropping food items onto e-coli contaminated tiles.
"That is not representative of what actually happens," she said.
Instead, Goettsche and Moin took their food samples - apple slices (wet) and Skittles candies (dry) - to the main Connecticut College dining hall, Harris Refectory, and to the snack bar in the student center. They dropped the foods onto the floors in both locations for five, 10, 30 and 60 second intervals, and also tested them after allowing five minutes to elapse. They then swabbed the foods and placed them onto agar plates designed to cultivate any bacteria that might have attached to the foods.
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Mythbusters did that one in one of their episodes.
They determined it was NOT the time (3 vs 5 seconds) but they type of food. Dry foods did very well, moist foods did not.
Now, I will have to ask the ATW health department what their rule is? Hahahaha, I will do that AFTER their inspection not before!
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