Scientists have discovered a new enemy of microbes. It turned out to be an ordinary microwave oven, according to the Internet edition for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. Net If you expose kitchen towels and sponges to microwaves only 2 minutes, it will kill more than 99% of the bacteria that live on them.

Every year, several million people suffer from food poisoning in Europe. Kitchen accessories such as dishwashing sponges are an excellent reservoir for pathogenic microorganisms that fall on them from raw meat and eggs.

In a bacteriological study of an ordinary kitchen sponge, it detected about 10,000 bacteria per square centimeter, including pathogenic E. coli and salmonella.

This suggests that a simple dishwasher-safe dishwashing makes the utensils clean, but does not kill germs that are dangerous to human health.

In the experiment, Gabriel Bitton, an environmental specialist from the University of Florida, first immersed kitchen sponges in water contaminated with pathogens: fecal bacteria, viruses, protozoa and spores of bacteria, and then placed them in a microwave oven at different times.

It turned out that E.

coli died at the 30th second of treatment, and after 2 minutes, about 99% of all microorganisms died.

Spores of bacteria that are usually resistant to radiation, high temperature and chemicals were destroyed within 4 minutes.

This phenomenon is explained by the action of water molecules in the modified state of the microwave.

On the recommendation of the researchers, a 2-minute treatment of a damp sponge every day is enough to maintain the kitchen inventory in a microbiologically safe state.

Medicinform. Net.