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Is your kitchen sponge making you sick?

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If the kitchen sponge is a bit grubby and smelly, it’s time to bin it.

As we prepare meals across the school holidays, there’s little point washing hands and handling food safely if we end up giving the whole family food poisoning from the sponge we use to wipe down surfaces.

Find out the germs lurking in sponges at Health+Medicine.

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