none of them will hurt you. 5 soconds or 5 minutes, many of them will fly there wethere the food is on the floor or not. there is too much germ phobia in this world. most bacteria and microbes are not harmful. some day people will pay lots of money to a small vial of bacteria jsut so they can live. the bacteria serve very important functions throughout nature and mans obsessivness in eradicating them is completely irrational and based on false premises Read a book called We want to live by aajonus vonderplanetz and you will have a whole new view on life on this planet and our microbes brothers.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=We+want+to+live http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/bass/aajonus.html Take care, V > The restraurants around here have what they call the "5 second rule". > That is, anything dropped on the floor is ok to put back on the plate if > it is on the floor for less than 5 seconds. Last night Myth Busters > tested that and found this to be total hogwash, there was no difference > in the huge amount of bacteria and molds picked up when food is dropped > on the floor between 2 seconds and 6 seconds. > Marshall > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> --
