Broccoli and raspberries could give you COVID, health experts warn after learning that virus can live on popular foods for as long as a week

Daily Mail ^ | 12-3-22 | JONATHAN ROSE

[dynachrome]

roccoli and raspberries could give you COVID, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned.

Health experts revealed the virus that causes Covid-19 can live on some ready-to-eat groceries for days.

The tests were carried out for the FSA in a laboratory and found coronavirus lived longer on foods with uneven surfaces, such as broccoli and raspberries.

This was in comparison to smooth-skinned produce such as apples.

But the scientists have advised the risk to consumers remains very low.

Laboratory tests saw the SARS-CoV-2 virus smeared on packaging and food, including fruit and bottled drinks, that people might put in their mouth without cooking or washing.

[SamAdams76]

I didn’t know broccoli was a popular food.

Depends on the preparation. Most people overcook their broccoli, which makes it awful. Properly cooked as well as seasoned and buttered in the right proportions, it is delicious.

As for berries, I never wash them when I get them home. I just eat them right out of the package (usually swirling them in high fat yogurt). Washing them makes them too soggy for my taste. Below is the brand I use most often. I don't think I've ever gotten sick as a result of not washing them.

[nicollo]

Deep state is punching the PANIC NOW button.

Here in No. Va, I’m seeing idiots wearing masks in the park and driving their own cars. Today in church saw more masks today than I’ve seen since a yr ago, including on children.

So sad, but be warned: they’re gonna freak out the sheep.

[MrChips]

Oh now, why do they have to use poor broccoli? I love broccoli. They could have used rutabagas or turnips or something.

[gitmo]

A little boy asked a lady how her dog was doing.
Are told the child the dog had eaten something bad and had died.
The lad asked sadly, “Was it broccoli?”

[Jean2]

I only like broccoli if it has a light hollandaise sauce on it. I prefer broccolini.

[dragnet2]

Ya gotta be well off to buy broccoli.

[Tom Tetroxide]

Does this mean we are all gonna die...AGAIN?!?!?

[GOPJ]

Do you feel the Chinese are so weird about lock downs because they know something about the virus we don’t know?

[GOPJ]

The Chinese absolutely engineered this to be environmentally-hardy, and got their money's worth with every variant successively more hardy, which is the reverse of every prior pandemic. "The researchers found that on both plastic and skin, the Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Omicron variants all survived twice as long as the Wuhan, and remained infectious for more than 16 hours on skin. Omicron in particular was the most stable of the variants studied. On a plastic surface, it survived for as long as 193.5 hours. (Ed. note: That is +8 DAYS). The next highest was the Alpha variant at 191.3 hours, while the Wuhan strain lasted just 56 hours.

I believe you've got your facts right - but is the total 'virus load' on the skin days later enough to infect a person?