Dropped My Food On The Floor

You may feel differently.

Dropped my food on the floor.

This step is crucial to remove any physical contaminants from your kitchen floor. Thoroughly rinse the dropped items in cold water. Avoid the urge to apply soap or detergent to the poultry as you are cleaning it. Wondering if food is still ok to eat after it s been dropped on the floor or anywhere else is a pretty common experience.

The skin and meat will absorb the harmful chemicals from these cleaning solutions and they are not food safe. Wondering if food is still ok to eat after it s been dropped on the floor or anywhere else is a pretty common experience. And it s probably not a new one either. But was i right to eat it or had i unwittingly stuffed my mouth full of tiny harmful microbes.

You read that right. And it s probably not a new one either. If i drop food on the floor i still eat it. I do that because the harm i might get from the floor is not worth my concern compared with many many other things.

Any food picked up from the floor is perfectly fine to eat within five seconds of dropping it. According to the study out of aston university in birmingham england. And it s probably not a new one either. He said sandwiches crisps dry toast and biscuits i e.

He and his team dropped slices of bologna and bread onto floors contaminated with salmonella let them sit for varying amounts of time and recorded exactly how many bugs moved from floor to food.