You’ve heard it your whole life — if you drop food, it’s still clean and edible as long as you pick it up within 5 seconds.
ACK! Nope, not true. Not even remotely, as we found out at the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety, which is part of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences — Ag Dawgs, they call ‘em.
People have no idea the lengths the ag industry goes to doing the best possible job of keeping food safe — and that happens across the supply chain. Despite what you’d think from the headlines, most foodborne illnesses are our own fault.
And that all starts here in the lab.
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