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Originally Posted by Michael Charles
I spent 30+ years in the restaurant business. I learned early on the benefits of cleaning/sterilizing containers and surfaces. We used a bleach solution to clean most things and I continue today practicing those sanitizing habits.
ALL canned goods as well as ALL pre-packaged items are put into corrugated cardboard boxes (cases) then sent to warehouses waiting to be sent to various locations. ALL of those warehouses have some level of rodent problems, no matter how small the rodent problem is, those rodents will ultimately urinate or defecate on those cases of product, any product.
That is why we always sterilize our canned goods including beer and soda cans. The boxes that cereal and crackers etc. come in not so much because of the product us in a plastic bag so we just discard those outer cardboard boxes then put the bags in the cupboard.
We will eliminate most of any concerns coming into the house.
Its not about Covid19, it's about food safety for us.
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I must be immune to rodent urine and poop. I've never sanitized anything that I brought into the house before this pandemic. I can count on three fingers how many common colds I've had as an adult and can remember only one cold with a 102 fever for a couple of days so I guess that was a mild flu.
Glad I've stopped sanitizing for this new corona virus. I'm going back to my old ways.