The article did not provided much useful information about food born illness. Watermelon picks up more bacteria than a gummy bear when dropped on the floor. T

The article did not provided much useful information about food born illness. Watermelon picks up more bacteria than a gummy bear when dropped on the floor. That is obvious. A couple of things that would be much more helpful to point out: 1) your kitchen floor is much less likely to be coated with salmonella if you avoid bringing raw chicken carcasses into your house, and 2) a major factor in the severity of food born illness is dose. It is much safer, for example, to pick up a piece of watermelon from the kitchen floor ant eat it immediately than it is to pick it up and toss it in a salad that you are taking to a picnic, giving any bacteria that was picked up hours to multiply at moderate temperatures before being eaten.