In 2011, the The New York Times ran a story debunking the rule. “The 5-second rule probably should become the zero-second rule,” Dr. Roy M. Gulick, chief of the division of infectious diseases at Weill Cornell Medical College, told the Times. “Eating dropped food poses a risk for ingestion of bacteria and subsequent gastrointestinal disease, and the time the food sits on the floor does not change the risk.”
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 18:56:07 +0000
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