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    Viral video advises washing fruit and vegetables with soap. Here's why that's a bad idea.

    Dish soap is simply a surfactant and as such has the ability to penetrate into the fruits and vegetables. At our house, I make a sanitizer using 6% hydrogen peroxide and 5% acetic acid (vinegar) to create peroxyacetic acid. My wife adds 1/3 cup of the peroxyacetic acid compound to 1 gal of...