Perhaps you’ve been told it’s perfectly ok if you’re quick and pick it up within five seconds – before e-coli settles in. But a couple of years ago, two biology students at Connecticut College tested the five second rule with a series of ingenious series of experiments: they dropped apple slices and candies on the ground and measured how long it took for dangerous bacteria to cluster == their verdict: you have 30 seconds to pick up wet food and more than a minute to pick up dry foods.
Now SFoodie, SFWeekly’s food blog, have complexified the eat or not to eat dilemma with this flow chart.
