Good news! The 5 second rule has now become the 30 second rule. According to an article in the Boston Globe, student researchers at Connecticut College (where my sister happened to attend college) say that you can now take up to 30 seconds to pick up food dropped on the floor and still safely eat it.
But now student researchers Molly Goettsche and Nicole Moin claim their study debunks the five-second rule by showing that bacteria needs more time to contaminate dropped food than previously believed.Working under the supervision of assistant professor Anne Bernhard, the two cell-and-molecular biology students experimented with samples of wet food (apple slices) and dry food (Skittles candy); food samples were left on the floor for various intervals, then analyzed for contamination, the college said.
According to Goettsche and Moin, the results of their research showed that people can wait as long as 30 seconds to pick up wet foods and even longer for dry foods.
And you thought the whole thing was made up.
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