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How would you sterilize one of these? You don't know where it's been or what's been on it.

by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago

jfoucher 15y ago
You're better off getting some rather new ones anyway. Shipping pallets are rarely loaded with dirty things though... and more often than not the load is completely enclosed in cling wrap
a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet#Food_safety_risks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet#Food_safety_risks Food safety risks Wood pallets used to transport food can possibly harbor pathogens such as E. coli and Listeria. A release by the National Consumers League announced the testing of 70 wood pallets and 70 plastic pallets that have been loaded with perishable products and shipped to an end user was shipped overnight to an independent microbiology lab for testing. The results came back with 10 percent of the wood pallets positive for E. coli and 1.4 percent positive on the plastic pallets.[29] Contaminated pallets is enough of a thing that you should at least think twice about bringing one into your home, especially if you have ankle biters around or eat lunch at your desk. If you search for salmonella pallet you get a lot of link bait, and some indication of a PR war between the wooden pallet industry and the plastic pallet industry, and a very small number of level headed, topical articles. The idea is enough of a thing that the wooden pallet industry has responded at length: http://www.palletenterprise.com/articledatabase/view.asp?articleID=3480 http://www.palletenterprise.com/articledatabase/view.asp?art... Part of their defense is "anyway, it's tertiary packaging, so why worry?" That's fine if you're worried about individual resale items in their own packages, in a wholesale box of packages, wrapped on a pallet. Maybe not so slam dunk safe if you're bringing the pallet itself into your home.

6 ms·

How would you sterilize one of these? You don't know where it's been or what's been on it.

by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago

How would you sterilize one of these? You don't know where it's been or what's been on it.

jfoucher 15y ago
You're better off getting some rather new ones anyway. Shipping pallets are rarely loaded with dirty things though... and more often than not the load is completely enclosed in cling wrap
a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet#Food_safety_risks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet#Food_safety_risks Food safety risks Wood pallets used to transport food can possibly harbor pathogens such as E. coli and Listeria. A release by the National Consumers League announced the testing of 70 wood pallets and 70 plastic pallets that have been loaded with perishable products and shipped to an end user was shipped overnight to an independent microbiology lab for testing. The results came back with 10 percent of the wood pallets positive for E. coli and 1.4 percent positive on the plastic pallets.[29] Contaminated pallets is enough of a thing that you should at least think twice about bringing one into your home, especially if you have ankle biters around or eat lunch at your desk. If you search for salmonella pallet you get a lot of link bait, and some indication of a PR war between the wooden pallet industry and the plastic pallet industry, and a very small number of level headed, topical articles. The idea is enough of a thing that the wooden pallet industry has responded at length: http://www.palletenterprise.com/articledatabase/view.asp?articleID=3480 http://www.palletenterprise.com/articledatabase/view.asp?art... Part of their defense is "anyway, it's tertiary packaging, so why worry?" That's fine if you're worried about individual resale items in their own packages, in a wholesale box of packages, wrapped on a pallet. Maybe not so slam dunk safe if you're bringing the pallet itself into your home.