It s dropped on the floor stuffed between the sofa cushions coughed on and sneezed at.
Bacterial on floor.
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.
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.
Studies have shown that of the bacteria found in indoor air the most common four are.
It travels in vegetables raw meat beef contaminated water and even handshakes.
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.
The aston study used the bacteria escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus while the clemson study used.
The study also shows that those bacteria can cause many different types.
So when left on the floor for just five seconds both foods picked up between 150 and 8 000 bacteria.
Everyone in the house handles it.
June 25 2007 your home may be germier than you think new research shows.
830 bacteria square inch vs.
Tile laminate or wood and carpet.
Bacteria can come from anywhere and it could get inside our house and down onto the floor where our kids run barefoot crawl and play.
The food was allowed to remain on the floor from three to 30 seconds.
Micrococcus is a sphere shaped coccus cocci generally means spherical relatively harmless bacterium.
Out of 32 places in the home the top spots for bacteria are the toilet bowl kitchen drain kitchen sponge or counter.
Bacteria like the moist area and grow on it.
Micrococcus staphylococcus bacillus and pseudomonas.
But if they were left for a full minute the rate was magnified 10 times source.
A university of arizona study found that bacteria from our shoes transfer to our floors up to 90 of the time.
E coli is a common bacteria and there is a strain of it that is dangerous to humans.
Why there is so much bacteria on the floor.
The studies tested three different floor surfaces.