Professor of Microbiology from the University of Arizona. Chuck Gerba announced that the kitchen sponges and cloths are the most dirty places in the house. According to a study, the most in the kitchen germ It is not the surfaces that are as clean as it seems.
He returns only in one hour
BBC’s health program Trust Me I A Doctor’s experiment, the kitchen counters cleaned with antibacterial glands were reconciled with bacteria in just one hour and 12 hours later bacterium And he revealed that mushrooms were increasing rapidly. These results show that antibacterial products are not very effective in protecting germs.
Even more dirty than the toilet
In the research of NSF International, a public health institution, it was found that kitchen sponges were 200,000 times more dirty than the toilet. In the study with examples taken from 22 families, 75 percent of kitchen sponges carry coliform bacteria.
200 thousand times more bacteria!
Coliform bacteria are quite dangerous as it can be an indication of stool contamination. Dr. Gerba stressed that there are 200 thousand times more bacteria in a dishwashing sponge than the toilet toilet.
