We've all heard it before: if you drop food on the floor, you have five seconds to pick it up and eat it without risking any ...

Is eating food that has fallen to the floor ever truly safe? Many cling to the “five-second rule,” which asserts that if you pick up dropped food within five seconds of dropping it, it is safe to ...

Researchers from the United Kingdom’s Aston University surveyed 495 people in 2014 about the five-second rule – the belief ... that nothing is completely germ-free; microbes are in, on and ...