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BERT
Lv 6
BERT asked in HealthOther - Health · 1 decade ago

We are in a recently flooded area. We are under a boil water advisory for drinking or food preparation?

Is it o.k. to wash the dishes in your dishwasher? I'm assuming you can bathe in it. Everyone is still bathing in it that I know. I just would really like to use my dishwasher instead of boiling water and washing them by hand. I just don't want to contaminate my dishes either.

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  • Marie
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Maybe you should boil the water you wash and rinse your dishes in too. Do it by hand because who knows what kind of pathogens you will expose the dishes you eat off of to if you just put them into the dishwasher to be rinsed by ordinary hot water? I really think you should boil your dishwater and rinse water to be safe. Please take care of yourself.

    May the Lord bless you.

    Source(s): Just my opinion.
  • fette
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Boiling water, whilst useful, is the well-liked thank you to kill risky bacteria and parasites. Bringing water to a rolling boil for a million minute will kill maximum organisms. Boiling won't eliminate chemical contaminants. in case you think or are cautioned that water is contaminated with chemical ingredients, seek for yet another source of water, which includes bottled water. As for the different i've got been to a sewage plant & the fecus, urine, etc. do get recycled utilising chemical ingredients. I hate to think of roughly it nevertheless as i admire water. As undesirable as we've polluted the earth & sky even rain water isn't sturdy for eating super amts. of.

  • David
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    your dishwasher will take care of pathogens. use hot water rinse.

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