Food-on-floor "five second rule" debunked

It might be time to reconsider the five-second rule when thinking about eating food that has fallen on the floor.Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey say in a new study that bacteria can contaminate food that falls on the floor instantaneously.The findings were published this month in the American Society for Microbiology's journal.Researcher Donald Schaffner said the five-second rule is a "significant oversimplification of what actually happens when bacteria transfer from a surface t