All washing might do is “remove the snot that some 3-year-old blew onto the food at the grocery store,” says the ever-forthright Powell at Kansas State. Washing “lowers the pathogen count a little, but not to safe levels if it’s contaminated.”

I said that in a Feb.15, 2012 interview with USA Today.

And a coupe of days ago a former MS student and friend sent me this: