Heat Kills Bacteria! Again…
March 6th, 2007 by mitch
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In the December 2006 edition of Journal of Environmental Health a paper entitled “Microbial Inactivation by Microwave Radiation in the Home Environment”, by Gabriel Bitton, talks about a novel way to kill bacteria. Microwave them! Apparently, the optimum method is to microwave for 2 minutes allowing for maximum bacteria frying and minimal sponge burning.
I wonder how novel it is to exploit heat as a method for killing bacteria though. If I’m not mistaken, there was a paper last year which reported using a hot iron as a method to kill anthrax delivered via snail mail. Both methods seem to utilize the same general idea, heat kills bacteria. Off the top of my head, here are some other ideas to kill bacteria in sponges, ie future research papers.
Other useful Ideas To Kill/Remove Bacteria From Sponges
- Submerge sponge in boiling water.
- Submerge sponge in bleach.
- Submerge sponge in antibacterial hand-wash.
- Buy a new sponge.
If you have more suggestions, feel free to share them.
Note 1: Brought to my attention by Steve Ritter from this Newscripts page: http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/85/i08/html/8508newscripts.html
-Mitch
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