What do you clean your shopping with?

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Do you clean your shopping to protect from coronavirus and what with? Looking after elderly parents and want to make sure we protect them as much as possible.

Nothing. Are people really washing fruit and veg with soap and water?

Errr, I wash apples and fruit or veg I’m not going peel, just as I always would. Otherwise I just was my hands. People are washing tins? Really!!!

Yes @bluetongue I am. I got a big delivery from a fresh fruit & veg supplier today. I washed the milk jugs with hot soapy water, washed things like peppers & cucumber and potatoes with soapy water. Sprayed the bags of bread down and then put the bread into big ziplock bags. I've left the cardboard boxes outside along with the egg trays. I'll bring them in this evening and will unpack them tomorrow

Nothing. I wash my hands when I come in from the shop, wash them before I prepare food and wash them before eating like normal.

I bathe my strawberries in Milton 😂😂😂

Good god! All the experts (not the bloody daily mail or scaremongers!) say it's very very unlikely to catch it from your online delivery, lots of people scaring everyone, saying it stays on stuff for ages but if you listen to the proper scientists they all say it doesn't live in the amount you can catch it on paper/cardboard anyway! Yeah there possible could be traces but not enough to infect you. Just wash your hands get rid of packaging etc

The virus remains viable on paper/cardboard for 24 hours, and on metal/plastic for 3 days. I’m cleaning everything that crosses my threshold because I’m unlikely to survive this virus and it’s not a chance I want to take.

Nothing.

Someone asked this question on the BBC news last week and the response from an expert was to wash all shopping coming into the house in hot soapy water.

After reading this, I'm now panicking. I bought and ate a packet of crisps today. I should have put them into a bowl but ate straight out of the packet that came straight out of the supermarket. I came home, washed my hands, put away the groceries, washed my hands again, grabbed a packet of crisps and ate them. What if the virus is on the packet and went onto my hands when I opened the bag and ate them. After a few crisps, I realised what I had done and put tied up the back and put them away where I won't touch for three days. I'm worried though.

I set fire to it. True story, it works.

Tins - putting away for 3 to 5 days then wiping before use. Wiping packets down with dettol. Washing or peeling fruit and veg.

I've started using antibac wipes on packaging and washing fruit and veg

Theschoolonthehill: please don't worry because you ate some crisps.

@theschoolonthehill I can't tell if you're joking or being serious. These are weird times we live in.

The virus cannot survive more than 5 hours on soft surfaces I believe. Hard surfaces like steel and the like, several days (so the buttons in an elevator etc), but soft surfaces like cardboard is measured in hours. Once again, if you're in the shielded group, these precautions listed above may well be reasonable, but if you're not you'll be ok making sure you always wash your hands before you eat.

Our neighbors are elderly and we gave them some milk. I wiped that down with antibacterial wipes, but that was mostly to make them feel better- we hadn't been out for 2 weeks and the milk had been in our fridge for a week.

Somebody put their groceries in a bubble bath

pocketem

That is utterly bonkers.

That way madness lies.

Antibacterial wipes won’t kill the virus?

I didn't realise we should be and I thought I was doing so well following the rules...

Wow I had no idea we are meant to be doing this as well! I've just been putting it away as normal...

I dont and I'm not about to start doing it either

I am not washing my shopping, it is very unlikely that anyone will catch the virus in that way however there is no one high risk in our house. I might be a bit more paranoid if there was.

I read on a news feed about what you can use to kill the virus and tmit mentioned in particular that vinegar doesn't @1ForAllnAllFor1.

I just put it away as normal. Then I wash my hands. Before, during and after food preparation,
I wash my hands. This is why we are told to wash our hands.

I read a thread yesterday about how to disinfect strawberries