http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/312855.php

It is likely that most of us have faced this dilemma: a tasty morsel of food has fallen on the floor, but rather than discard it, the thought of picking it up quickly and eating it crosses the mind. The so-called 5-second rule suggests that eating food from the floor is safe, so long as it is picked up within 5 seconds. A new study, however, says otherwise.

Can the 5-second rule save this food? Research suggests leaving it on the floor is the wisest choice.
Researchers led by Prof. Donald Schaffner, of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, report their findings in the American Society for Microbiology’s journal, Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 1 in 6 people in the United States get sick each year due to foodborne illness, which is around 48 million people. Of these, around 128,000 people are hospitalized and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases.

dv said:

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 1 in 6 people in the United States get sick each year due to foodborne illness, which is around 48 million people. Of these, around 128,000 people are hospitalized and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases.

How’d they die? Dropped some food on the floor…

5 second rule doesn’t work when you have a 3 second dog…

stumpy_seahorse said:

5 second rule doesn’t work when you have a 3 second dog…

LOL

stumpy_seahorse said:

5 second rule doesn’t work when you have a 3 second dog…

Try it with 2 dogs.

We’re in training.

“ Interestingly, compared with tile and stainless steel, carpet had a lower transfer rate. The transfer rate from wood was variable.

The researchers conclude their study by noting that, although longer contact times result in more bacterial transfer, “other factors including the nature of the food and the surface are of equal or greater importance.” They say their findings disprove the 5-second rule. “

longer contact times result in more bacterial transfer.. so the ‘x seconds rule’ is still valid to a point. (depending on the food and amount of moisture. I don’t think the incidences of foodborne diseases are from picking up food off the floor before five seconds, probably more to the fact that, generally, Americans eat out a lot more and food prep surfaces aren’t individually controllable.

>Research suggests leaving it on the floor is the wisest choice.

For someone to step on and go sliding.

>5 second rule doesn’t work when you have a 3 second dog…

that’s funny

i’m like a dog I bury mine for a few days then dig’t up and eat it to calibrate my immune system, so as to stave off allergies etc.

I’m sure the Mythbusters did this one.

All this reminds me of the joke about the bloke who had 5 wives die from eating poisonous mushrooms, in all he had outlived a further 5 wives, when asked how the other 5 died he said the rest had died of a fractured skull they wouldn’t eat their mushrooms.

What about Cephalexin capsules? I dropped a coupe on the floor trying to get them out of the blister pack. ‘Spose it wouldn’t apply to them so much?