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Your kitchen sponge teems with bacteria – should you use a brush instead?

Your kitchen sponge teems with bacteria – should you use a brush instead? 2 days ago Jasmin Fox-Skelly Getty Images We use them to clean the dishes we eat off, but your kitchen sponge is a damp, crumb-filled environment that is perfect for bacteria to thrive in. "We only found potentially pathogenic bacteria, so bacteria that can be dangerous to people with weak immune systems, or the elderly or children," says Egert. "Having said that, there is a possibility that if you use a sponge to wipe up raw meat or raw chicken juice that you could have some of those pathogenic bacteria on there, and studies have found that pathogens can be isolated from kitchen sponges."

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