I may be on national TV!

[BlaqueKatt]

for the last two weeks we've had some people in the lab for a project being done for one of the national news programs(one of those "how safe is your food" things). Today they realized that they hadn't gotten any footage of us working, so they spent about 20 minutes filming us. I'm milling about in the background in unfortunately 90% of it(they kept filming in places I needed to be in).

so yay!

And un-yay, I never want to touch the stuff we were testing, neither does anyone else in the lab-almost everything was contaminated in some manner , and this was "randomly bought from random stores" stuff.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

huh. too bad I don't watch television. I figure that since I don't usually suck on boxtops or lipgloss lids, that I'm good with the germ thing.
Eggs on the other hand... and don't get me started on the dairy case! urgh!

[telecom_goddess]

Which show? when? is there or will there be a link to maybe watch it online?

[Sheldonrs]

... I'm milling about in the background in unfortunately 90% of it(they kept filming in places I needed to be in).

...:

So long as the show isn't "To Catch A Predator", you'll be fine.

[Eisa]

So long as the show isn't "To Catch A Predator", you'll be fine.

I wanna see, too!

[BlaqueKatt]

So long as the show isn't "To Catch A Predator", you'll be fine.

you can have a over there...... 0_0

and due to confidentiality agreements I can't say the program....but I can say it's one that runs for an hour

[lordlundar]

And un-yay, I never want to touch the stuff we were testing, neither does anyone else in the lab-almost everything was contaminated in some manner , and this was "randomly bought from random stores" stuff.

Here's the catch, you say everything was contaminated in some manner. But what was contaminated and with what. A lot of times the contamination is just the packaging itself and usually contaminated with something that would take quantities to look like the blob that ate New York to be dangerous.

[BlaqueKatt]

But what was contaminated and with what. A lot of times the contamination is just the packaging itself and usually contaminated with something that would take quantities to look like the blob that ate New York to be dangerous.

I work in a microbiology food testing laboratory-we don't test packaging-we remove the product from the packaging prior to testing.

If interested in boring yourself to death-these are the processes we and all other labs use referred to as USDA/BAM.

and you don't need huge quantities of what we found to make you sick.

we found:
Staphylococcus aureus
salmonella
listeria monocytogenes
fecal coliforms
and TONS of
Yersinia enterocolitica

so yeah nasty stuff.

[Mytical]

An hour, 60 minutes, 3600 seconds, 1/24th of a day. Cool

[Misanthropical]

I work in a microbiology food testing laboratory-we don't test packaging-we remove the product from the packaging prior to testing.

If interested in boring yourself to death-these are the processes we and all other labs use referred to as USDA/BAM.

and you don't need huge quantities of what we found to make you sick.

we found:
Staphylococcus aureus
salmonella
listeria monocytogenes
fecal coliforms
and TONS of
Yersinia enterocolitica

so yeah nasty stuff.

I try very hard to not think of what could be in my food. I think that everything is contaminated and worry about something else otherwise I would be under the bed hiding from the world.

We have the 5 second rule in my house even though we all know that the 5 second rule is no safer than if the food sat on the floor for an hour with everyone in the house walking on it and then eating it.

[BlaqueKatt]

I try very hard to not think of what could be in my food. I think that everything is contaminated and worry about something else otherwise I would be under the bed hiding from the world.

see the good thing is all of those little nasties don't like heat, cook food properly, and don't cross contaminate(use different clean plates for raw and cooked food, separate cutting boards, or wash with soap and hot water between items), and you're good. sadly people have a tendency to be lazy and ignore common sense.

We have the 5 second rule in my house even though we all know that the 5 second rule is no safer than if the food sat on the floor for an hour with everyone in the house walking on it and then eating it.

meh, the stuff one finds on the floors in an average household is rather benign, and not in large enough quantities to cause illness. heck the lab floors are 99.9% free of harmful bacteria, and we work with this stuff all day, every day and mop once a week, spot mop if we spill(so pretty much the same as most average people do). So I don't think you or your family is in any immediate danger