How do you sanitise your shopping?

[Lottiebugz22]

Do you wash your tins with soap for 20 seconds? What do you do about bread in paper or meat or plastic cartons? And what about fresh fruit and vegetables?

Was actually wondering today how others do it. I don’t sanitise shopping, I wash hands as soon as I get home. Unpack shopping, put bags away, wash hands again.

Aren’t eggs cooked and you should wash your hands after handling eggs anyway so why wash them

Cloth, diluted bleach (squirt of it in sink with water) and I wipe down plastic wrappers and anything hard - fruit and veg I wash in soapy water when I use it and I've read paper/egg cartons you don't need to wipe down so I don't. Anything multipacked I just throw the outer packing away as the individual items are not likely to have been handled recently.
I wipe down my milk bottles and the carrier handle after milk delivery with bleach water too. Lastly it's tap (a lot of people forget to do this!), fridge/freezer handles, cupboard handles, door handles and front door key. Then I wash the bleach off my hands and apply half a tonne of handcream.

Wash hand and fruit, if any veg that may be eaten raw, wash that - but if it's going into an oven at 200C, peeled or going to be steamed/boiled, there's not much point.

I do while we are at the supermarket's car park I wipe everything with Milton Spray and get rid of the plastic bag and move them to my own bag at the same time. (Last week, we used Click&Collect but items were missing despite they charged on our credit, so I just started to check each items as well as wiping at the same time)

I've only bought veg & fruits came in the plastic so i haven't sprayed them directly..but wash it as usual before cooking.

metro.co.uk/2020/03/30/coronavirus-uk-need-disinfect-groceries-12476421/

Please check this article, also the video towards the bottoms "Doctor's PSA on how to safely take in grocery...." he explained it well.
Let me know what you think?

I don’t .

We've been doing this since end of Feb. DH works in animal health and regularly gets training and has exercises at work for infectious diseases, and went full on farm gate foot and mouth protocol the minute it was clearly circulating in the community.
It does feel OTT and ridiculous, but it's a risk we can control ourselves, and I'm happy to do that.
We just use a soap and water solution, get rid of outer packaging and quarantine non-perishables, but things are passed from a contaminated area to a clean one and we're stringent with that. It's stand practice in infection control, so I can't see why we shouldn't do it in our home.

Detail spray that’s safe for food prep surfaces.

Dettol obvs.

I wash my fruit and hands as per normal and think nothing more of it.

We don't, we just wash our hands before and after unpacking and wash fruit/veg as normal before cooking or eating.

I remove unnecessary packaging..I use anti bad wipes with waahingbup liquid and some times some.setrol.spray if I need more moisture. Give it a good run especially where I thing hands are most likely to have touched such as milk carton handles. I dry with kitchen roll.

Antibacterial wipes, then wash our hands afterwards and the work surfaces.
Would not risk it! So if it takes 10 mins to clean my shopping - big deal!

I don’t.

Put shopping bags on kitchen table and floor, put shopping away, put bags outside, wash my hands and wash fridge and cupboard handles, and then wipe kitchen table.

I clear top of fridge & put food that needs fridge on that shelf (wipe milk etc with clean jcloth & neat washing up liquid, ditto outside of bread pack, cheese marg et al) freezer food goes straight to freezer empty fresh veg out of bags into Tupperware box & quarantine in fridge. packets/tins that don't need fridge freezer are kept on table for a couple of days than used & wash my hands several times & outside fridge door where I touch it (I feel like Lady Macbeth) wipe all door handles I touched in this process & washed my hands again & than clean sink & taps & wash hands again & use moisturizer

Oh & clean surface I sorted shopping on (my dining room table has plastic heat covering which is great for cleaning)

Remove and throw away packaging for things like bread, veg, fruit, cheese and freezer things. Put in new bags or tupperware, or no bags.

Wash things like milk cartons/bottles with soapy water.
Try to isolate some things for at least 24 hours, longer if possible.

Wash hands often while doing it

I am hiding the good chocolate in a secure biscuit tin location for the safety of the family, just in case it's harbouring dangerous bacteria.

I don't. That way, madness lies. Washing potentially hundreds of items a week, quarantining food, washing eggs in soapy water... Do those of you doing this also strip off all your clothes and shower every time you come home? Do you shower before or after you bathe your tins?

And at all the wipes you're using and chemicals you're putting down your drains.

I don't wash it. Wash fruit and veg as normal. Wash my hands and surfaces after shopping and unpacking and bags go in the boot for 7-10 days for next shop. I work in a hospital. I'm more likely to catch it from wearing crappy ppe tbh.
Loads of germs and virus could be on our shopping all year round but to wash everything all the time is not possible plus the over use of anti bac stuff is not helping our immunity to bacteria and germs in general.

I don't. I remove some items from out wraps/boxes if possible but I did that before covid too.

Simonisnotme that isn't true but it doesn't stop it being repeated regularly on threads here.

Re washing fruit and veg as normal, a microbiologist was on sky today saying that is fine for things that will be peeled or boiled, but for something like an apple rinsing with water as you normally would isn't sufficient. He didn't actually say what you should do, just that things like apples could be a problem. I would guess that if eating fruit raw it is best to either peel it or use some kind of soap to wash for twenty seconds then rinse.

I think perception of risk comes into it. It’s easy to say people are ott but my chances of survival are low if I catch this, and I would be leaving behind a vulnerable SN child. If I felt that my survival odds were higher, then sanitising shopping might not seem worth the effort.

I wash fridge and freezer packages in soapy suds and leave for a few minutes. If I can discard packaging, eg on fruit or eggs then I do, and put the contents into Tupperware.

Fruit and veg get washed anyway. Nothing new there.

I quarantine non perishables in the shed for four days.

Studies have shown that the virus remains viable on paper/card for 24 hours and on metal/plastic for several days. I agree that the risks are small so we all have to weigh up the odds based on our circumstances.

I’m a total slattern generally

I don't either

Is this really a thing. I dont clean my shopping at all. And this coming from someone who worked in a supermarket and watched rats peeing on everything in warehouse.