Your Sponge and Toilet Seat Aren't So Different, After All...

Gabriel Bitton, professor of environmental engineering at the University of Florida, discussed the findings of a recent study on bacteria in sponges:

"Cooks should microwave their sponges every other day, he suggested. The warm, damp environment of kitchen cloths is the ideal breeding ground for microbes. In the right conditions one bacterium can multiply to more than four million in just eight hours. This can make them up to 200 times more infested that [sic] a lavatory seat."

Yuck. You should microwave your sponges periodically, while damp, for 2 minutes on high.

You may read the full article on The Daily Mail website.