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Some years ago, the television show “Mythbusters” tested the “5-Second Rule”—a belief that food dropped on the floor can be safely picked up and eaten as long as it happens within five seconds. The team tested samples of wet pastrami and dry crackers by placing them on bacteria-infested floor tiles for two and six seconds, then did cultures to see how much bacteria formed compared to a control.
PURE Bioscience silver dihydrogen citrate-based PURE Control antimicrobial is USDA FSIS approved for use as a spray or dip applied to poultry carcasses, parts and organs in pre-online reprocessing and post-chill processing applications.
While Paul Simon used “One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor,” to refer to apartment house rules of courtesy, you might find a parallel to this separate-but-connected concept in the food supply chain.
Food writer Michael Pollan’s famous mantra, “Eat food, not much, mostly plants,” seems to have made an impact on consumers who are demanding fresh produce.
When most people in the food industry hear the word “antimicrobial,” they usually think about preservatives such as sodium benzoate or calcium propionate.
Many chemical bactericidal washes and rinses have been tried in the poultry processing industry with varying results; Campylobacter and Salmonella still find their way to finished product.