Is anyone else cleaning their shopping?

Yes. I use warm soapy water as recommended rather than antibacterial wipes.
Anything not needed is left untouched for 3 days.
Every little helps.

Yes I wash/wipe everything....I work in a Supermark

Gosh !!!!

Channel 4 this evening 8 pm. How Clean is your House. What to disinfect re shopping, etc.

No, I don't do anything different than I would normally do with shopping. I rinse all fresh veg and fruit as always, and wash my hands after handling anything. So far so good.

I do clean it all as much as I can. I run a bowl of hot soapy water. I always assume I’ve probably missed one.

Irons newspapers? Gosh, thats commitment.

They are fine to clean surfaces and utensils Maizie, but not intended for consumables.

Chlorine washed chicken and salad stuff aren't consumables, green-eyed girl? [Shock]

Baby sterilising fluid is used to sterilise baby feeding equipment which can be used without rinsing.

If you read my original I think you'll find me mentioning that household bleach is toxic. The stuff I'm talking about isn't if used correctly.

My friend irons her newspaper with as hot as possible setting to sterilise it.

My shopping goes into quarantine in a spare room for at least 72 hours. Fresh milk cartons are washed in a mild bleach solution

It's amazing how predictive text occasionally interprets correctly Chewbacca

I completely agree with you MOnica soap and hot water best, but I have noticed some anti bac labelled gels and sprays do have 60 or 70% alcohol and are also anti viral. Not all admittedly, it's often in the small print.
In normal times I certainly wouldn't use anti bacterial anything because bacteria becomes immune to them.

Just noticed anti bad spray! How apt!

Anti-bacterial anything ia a waste of money Covid-19 is a virus not a bacteria. The best thing for it is good old fashioned soap, which is a surfactant and dissolves our natural body oil and the virus on our skin into the soap mix so that the viral particals are washed off your hands with the soap. Hence the importance of using hot water.

Same here JenniferEccles & SalsaQueen all those chemicals are a worry.
We hand wash, clean down surfaces and dispose of any unnecessary packaging.
I agree though people have to do whatever makes them feel safe.

They had a plentiful supply of both anti bad spray and wipes in the chemist when I went to collect my prescription this morning. A limit of 2 per customer.

I wouldn't do any of that. I wash my hands when I get home with the shopping, then again after I've packed the stuff away.

Where are you all managing to find anti bac or dettol wipes.
I haven't seem any for weeks.

I think you have to do what you feel is best, particularly if you are very vulnerable.
I don't think there's any evidence that there's a major risk of becoming ill with the virus from touching shopping, but of course that may change as they learn more.
Hard to do controlled trials at present. I guess there are more pressing issues just now.
Going into a shop I perceive to be more risky than not washing delivered food.

I am honestly amazed at this thread.

Like everyone else I am following all the recommendations regarding hand washing etc but come on, washing fruit and vegetables in hot soapy water???? Really?

I do give things a bit of a wipe when I get home and of course I wash fruit and vegetables in cold water before using, but that’s as far as I go.

I seem to be in the minority though so maybe you are all correct in what you are doing.

They are fine to clean surfaces and utensils Maizie, but not intended for consumables.

All these chemicals, bleach etc, are basically poisons,

And to think that people were perfectly happy at the thought of eating chlorine washed chicken fro the US, and kept telling us that prepared bagged salad stuff was chlorine washed and perfectly OK. Not to mention using swimming pools which are stuffed full of the stuff!

As far as chlorine solutions are concerned the dilutions used are perfectly safe. Household bleach is potentially more toxic than baby sterilising fluid because it has more than just sodium hypochlorite in it. Milton and its generic equivalents have no additives and are absolutely fine.

I'm not OCD about it and I don't think it's a false sense of security. There is always SOME risk. But my perspective is that I should do everything I can. Some stuff I can't control. I'm not going to worry about things I can't control. THAT would be OCD I think.

Hetty58

Some of us are going to the shops because we are being asked to by the supermarket chiefs as they cannot fulfil all the online deliveries.
If we all tried to get them, the situation would be unworkable.

I echo Greeneyedgirl. All these chemicals, bleach etc, are basically poisons, potentially as dangerous as the virus. just be sensible. I’m certainly not going to bleach my shopping!

People may get a false sense of security from cleaning their shopping, don't you think?

I don't understand your reasoning here, Hetty. I disinfect everything because I don't know who it's been handled by previous to our purchase. Previous handlers might, or might not, have been infectious...