Thousands of cases Last year there were more than 17,000 reported cases of salmonella poisoning in England and Wales and 55,000 cases of infection by campylobacter, a common bug that causes stomach upsets. Estimates for unreported cases pushed the number of salmonella infections up to more than 50,000 and campylobacter to more than 400,000. Viruses were responsible for a vast number of infections, possibly amounting to more than three million cases. To me, that's a public health scandal, because it's preventable. He said it was best to get rid of the washing-bowl and instead use the whole sink.
Stuff goes into the bowl and the water gets murkier and murkier.
If you're washing up knives that have been used to cut up raw chicken, or a chopping board, and using the same water that you use to wash plates, you run a very high risk of transferring bugs to those plates. Tea-towels might look clean but could really be teeming with germs, he said. Then they should be washed in a large volume of water containing an effective detergent such as bleach. This should be followed by a final rinse with running hot water. The aim was to mimic what happened in a washing-up machine.