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From: "Janice A. Frank" <>
Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Fw: How did we survive??
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 09:44:24 -0500
In-Reply-To: <00d601c2d144$94f10540$ea700d82@qwest.net>


At 03:39 PM 2/10/03, Joe Buffington wrote:

> Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we
> have.....
>
>My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting
>board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food
>poisoning.

I had meant to answer this because not long ago I read that someone,
instead of just assuming that the plastic ones are more sanitary, actually
did an experiment with plastic and wooden cutting boards, both kinds
getting different treatments, all the proper control groups and so on, and
so forth, and what they proved, to their own surprise, was that many fewer
harmful germs grew on the wooden ones. They declined to speculate about
why, but maybe your Mom (and mine) was right not to worry about this.

Jan



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