Every week Mary Ellen Burris writes an article on a subject relating to food, health, reader questions and concerns, and other important subjects.
Most microscopic hitchhikers are harmless creatures, even helpful.
There are bad ones though whether it s sore throat, flu, or the types that cause food-borne illness, they re there. We can t do too much about the number of germs or the fact that they invade our homes and workplaces, but we can fight them once they arrive. New research adds commonly-touched objects to the list of germ hideouts. A new antibacterial product called Mr. Clean WipeUps is now on the household cleaning aisle. Bacteria kill occurs within 10 minutes.