Bacteria Quotes

“Consider a commercial claim of a product killing “ninety nine percent of all bacteria in your sink.” That would mean that, of the ten thousand bacteria typically living on a square inch of the wet sink surface, one hundred would survive. These have only to multiply for eight generations to be back to the numbers they were before the detergent was used, which would usually take them a couple of hours, provided there was enough food for them. To remove their food by cleansing with a detergent lacking antibacterials would have been just as efficient.”
― Trudy M. Wassenaar, Bacteria: The Benign, the Bad, and the Beautiful