Kitchen sponge is a 'microbial incubator' say German researchers COLLEEN HAWKES123RF A new German study shows your kitchen sponge truly does host more germs than your toilet, including bacteria with a 'probably pathogenic potential'. Relevant offersIt has often been said that your kitchen sponge hosts more germs than your toilet. "Further works showed the presence of specific pathogenic bacteria in kitchen sponges, including Campylobacter, Enterobacter cloacae, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp, Proteus spp, Salmonella, and Staphylococcus." But this most recent study showed that kitchen sponges "harbour a higher bacterial diversity than previously thought" but "obligate human pathogens" are in the minority. One good thing to come from the survey was the fact that no bacteria could be detected in a collection of newly bought, unused kitchen sponges.

Source: Stuff August 02, 2017 02:06 UTC