How are you disinfecting groceries?

[Moominmummy12]

Can see that it’s possible to wipe down bottles/jars but how do you clean a punnet of fruit or a loaf of bread?

Not doing it, haven't seen any evidence surface transmission is a problem though TBF I understand people who are CEV doing it when it might be their main contact with outside world.

I put everything in the dishwasher on a hot wash.

@Moominmummy12

Can see that it’s possible to wipe down bottles/jars but how do you clean a punnet of fruit or a loaf of bread?

People do this??

Sometimes I wonder how I've managed to survive this long. Unbleached and unworried.

I cook them.

I did this for a long time because OH is so vulnerable. I think it was the single most depressing thing about life in Lockdown for me.

When numbers went down I stopped doing it. I also read the research that said their was no recorded cases of infection via this route.

We get a massive shop. Now we all put it away and wash our hands after.

No

@managedmis

Ain't nobody got time for dat shit

Hallefuckinlujah for common sense

Not wiping any shopping down.
I wash my hands and sanitise at every opportunity - anytime coming in the home from work, walking the dog.
I did in the beginning but after working all the way through an travelling on public transport , that risk outweighs a bag of oranges having the virus on them.

TheFirstMrsDV

I did this for a long time because OH is so vulnerable. I think it was the single most depressing thing about life in Lockdown for me.“

Me too. He’s vaccinated now so I’m easing off. Next big step will be choosing our own food, in an actual shop, once I’m jabbed too.
Oh the excitement

If people were catching Covid from their shopping, all supermarket workers would have had it.

It’s being transmitted by person to person contact.

@rosie1959

Put shopping away wash hands job done

This! I'm struggling enough as it is, if I started wiping groceries I'd lose perspective completely.

I've been getting shopping deliveries all through the pandemic (got them before that too) and haven't cleaned anything coming via the deliveries. Yes, there is a potential risk but as someone else said, low level virus doses are actually a good way to introduce your immune system to it provided you're not high risk.

I have also worked through the pandemic in a nursery so realistically my chances of getting it there are far higher than off my shopping. My children got Covid over xmas, my tests were negative so there is a high chance I have come across low levels of it prior to it being in my actual household. My daughter got it from her job at a hospital where there was contact with very high viral loads.

Wiping down groceries is one thing, but actually using disinfectant is surely unnecessary, and could be dangerous in itself. Reminds me of the Trumpian idea that people could be injected with bleach to prevent/cure Covid! In any case, it appears that touching surfaces is not how Covid gets transmitted. You might catch it by being close to someone with the virus in the supermarket queue, but not just by touching the groceries!

i've never wiped anything down unless it has been visibly grubby and still don't bother. can't see the point but each to their own.

@katy1213

Sometimes I wonder how I've managed to survive this long. Unbleached and unworried.

this 100%

I'm not.
It isn't necessary.

@Nitpickpicnic:
It is primarily a droplet and aerosol driven infection.

The handwashing is because you would be more likely to put your fingers into your eyes, nose, mouth than stick fresh carrots up your nose.

I can’t say I even wash veg before earning it.

I work in a job where I get pat at, licked and bitten all the time so think shopping is the last of my worries.

@Rowofducks

I can’t say I even wash veg before earning it.

I work in a job where I get pat at, licked and bitten all the time so think shopping is the last of my worries.

And at the end of the day you get paid in vegetables.

I'm horrified that this happens in this day and age.

This thread is a year old. At the time there were telly programmes telling you how to clean your groceries.

Milton tabs and wipes.

I'm not

Old thread, but I didn't, and I don't. It's batshit.

Not since March 2020.