What's the best way to wash your supermarket shopping?

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Genuine question, not sure what to do. Use wipes or wash in hit soapy water, but what if the packaging has a hole?

Hot sorry

I used a clean cloth and soaked it in hot soapy water and wiped everything down.
Also took a Tupperware box of soapy water to wash my hands as soon as I got to the car, gave the door handle and steering wheel etc a wipe.

Thanks, I try to take hand sanitiser gel to the shop but I'm running out so need more ideas if what we are all doing.

What you could do is to use an antibacterial wipe or spray on anything that needs to be put in the fridge.

Anything else should be put in quarantine for a few days. By that time any traces of the virus will have died.

The thing is, if we're supposed to wash our hands for twenty seconds, then surely for a soapy cloth to work, we'd have to wipe every inch of packaging for twenty seconds. It would take bloomin ages.
I'm seriously tempted to wipe everything with bleach.

We use a bowl of hot water with soap and bleach in it. Things like bottles and pots can go in the bowl for a good scrub, things like bread wipe the plastic bag with a kitchen wipe then bin the kitchen wipe.

Things that come in boxes like cereal just open the box, take the bag of cereal out and put the box straight in the recycling bin.

Fruit like like oranges and bananas where you don't east the skin can be washed in hot soapy water.

Fill the sink with cold soapy water. Wash. Rinse. Let it drip dry.

Put it away in the fridge.

I've used a weak bleach solution. I am planning to get some Milton/wipes next time. I have put anything that can wait outside in a sealed plastic box, plan to retrieve it in three days time! This will not necessarily be possible when it warms up but the weather has gone cold again here.

I'm spraying with dettol or Zoflora (diluted)

I don't do anything. It can only live for a limited time on surfaces and packaging. So out away, wash hands. Done and sorted. By the time you touch most of it again the virus will be dead.

We need better science education in this country.

ive emptied a window cleaner spray and filled with zflora and water, I spray everything lightly and turn over when dry. I do the door handles with spray and a cloth.

@BreathlessCommotion

I thought they'd said it was surfaces that the virus is transferred? so keeping door handles and packaging clean

But it doesn't stay alive. Up to 72 hours, but depends on the surface. 24 hours on most food packaging.

so if it stays alive for 6 hours for example, then I brought home shopping and it was contaminated.... then washed my hands after putting products in cupboards - then 3 hours later handled the packaging to cook, I could wash my hands to start cooking, but not necessarily in-between cooking each part

best to just spray or wipe surely

I don't do anything. It can only live for a limited time on surfaces and packaging.
Apparently it can live for several days on plastic and stainless steel, and 24 hrs on cardboard.

No, it can be detected for many days. That doesn’t mean it could infect you.
Setting aside for a couple of hours is enough:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/26/dont-panic-about-shopping-getting-delivery-or-accepting-packages/?fbclid=IwAR3clwRH0Eh0KX_xDRtsDrG0DJB8aqx9KRMpaAediPvRgrQ388Rky0BIba8&utm_campaign=wp_opinions&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

I'm not bothering. Unpack it, wash your hands. Rinse fresh food before you prepare it, wash you hands. Wash you hands before you eat. Job done.