A spoon out of my drawer is relatively safe to put in my mouth. How long would it take for that same spoon to be safe if I plucked it from, say, a cow pie? Would it ever be safe, or would it be germy forever until cleaned?
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It’s entirely dependent on the type of germ and the environmental factors at play.
Salmonella only lives for a couple hours. Streptococcus pyogenes can exist from a few hours to half a year.
If you took a spoon out of a cow pie and never cleaned it likely wouldn’t be safe for long time if ever, because it’ll harbor other dangerous things than just “germs”.
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