The studies tested three different floor surfaces.
Bacterial on floor.
It travels in vegetables raw meat beef contaminated water and even handshakes.
Combine this with the fact that it can take just 10 of some strains of salmonella bacteria to cause infection and it becomes clear that grounded food.
Bacteria like the moist area and grow on it.
People with weak immune systems are.
So when left on the floor for just five seconds both foods picked up between 150 and 8 000 bacteria.
Time is a significant factor in the transfer of bacteria from a floor surface to a piece of food bacteria was least likely to transfer from carpeted surfaces and most likely to transfer from laminate or tiled surfaces.
The aston study used the bacteria escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus while the clemson study used.
June 25 2007 your home may be germier than you think new research shows.
830 bacteria square inch vs.
It s dropped on the floor stuffed between the sofa cushions coughed on and sneezed at.
Why there is so much bacteria on the floor.
In fact there s twice as much bacteria on the kitchen floor.
E coli is a common bacteria and there is a strain of it that is dangerous to humans.
The food was allowed to remain on the floor from three to 30 seconds.
Tile laminate or wood and carpet.
Anytime an object falls onto the ground or gets placed on the floor and is picked up the bacteria is then picked up onto that object onto the surface that object then touches.
Everyone in the house handles it.
The study also shows that those bacteria can cause many different types.
But if they were left for a full minute the rate was magnified 10 times source.
Micrococcus staphylococcus bacillus and pseudomonas.
You may wonder how the bacteria on the floor really matters though as long as it stays there and doesn t make its way into an individual s mouth eyes nose or ears.
Out of 32 places in the home the top spots for bacteria are the toilet bowl kitchen drain kitchen sponge or counter.
A university of arizona study found that bacteria from our shoes transfer to our floors up to 90 of the time.