Bottom shelf of the fridge

If you want to contribute that is fine. Not sure what else to say to make it better.

^ if a thread is started by me you can skip it. Now and forever^

free world? everyone's entitled to their opinion ?

Ah but the addition of a means it's all OK

"flipping gecko"

I only leave them half an inch or so, kitty, just to keep them docile...

soon, I think soutra's point is that most of us knew most of this anyway so don't really need to change what we do. Unless your family come down with stomach bugs on an alarmingly regular basis you are probably getting it right already as well.

Anyway, please can we stop talking about fridges and bacteria, mine needs and good clean and it won't be getting one until at least January.

Ana, if I may say so, that's a flipping gecko waste of good wine! Feeding it to bacteria indeed.

oh good!

The bacteria in my fridge are all legless. I keep opened bottles of wine in there too...

Eh?

and anyone else. I will not be in the least bit offended. Ever.

In short, ignore me Soutra

I had a problem. I asked for advice. I got it. I will change. Up to others if they do.
And I dont want anyone to contribute to any thread I write or post, if they dont want to. Or indeed read it.
No one is obliged to read anything I write.
If a thread is started by me, you can skip it. Now and forever.

Please soontobe don't include me in your comment "we have assumed something when we haven't actually been advised to do so"!
I think simple common sense, a basic knowledge of food hygiene and how bacteria spread allied with a lifetime of preparing and cooking food make this a non- issue. I don't need some civil servant to state the bl***ing obvious and I ain't poisoned anybody yet.
What is the problem?

Well now you can change if you want to.

How on earth have we managed, given our (admittedly varied) advanced ages, the families we have successfully reared, the cooking and storing we have done, to do without all this...anthropomorphic bacteria too!

This is what Bill Bryson says about bacteria in his book "A Short History of Nearly Everything":

"... it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.”

I must admit, until I looked into this, I did think that some breeds of bacteria did have legs!

Or else assumed something, when we havent be advised to actually do so.

If bacteria had legs they might run all the way from your bum to your mouth.....

I think that we have been conditioned to be over cautious on this issue.

Googling, all I can find is that there is a problem if the items touch each other.

No touching, no problem.

But they dont do they. They dont move across a fridge shelf. Or up the door. Or onto other shelves. They just multiply on the actual piece of meat.

Bacteria multiply soontobe that's what we mean by spreading and, unchecked, yes everywhere.

soon everywhere !