When you shop for grocery online during these pandemic, you think it's a safer option. But there are still a few steps you must take when you receive the online bought groceries. In-person grocery shopping only increases the demand for delivery. Be it for convenience or for safety reasons, getting bags or boxes of food and other necessities brought to your doorstep is only an increasingly attractive option. Wondering how should you handle these online purchased items if they're delivered to you by person at your doorstep? We've gone ahead to point out a few mistakes that you might be making while handling groceries and that you must avoid making such mistakes.

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Ready-made food from restaurants, and other delivery services offer no-contact delivery. This means, your order is left on the doorstep eliminating nay need for you to have direct interaction with the delivery man. Some services however don't have this as a default option and you might forget to specifically ask for one. Make sure you search for that option henceforth and opt for it.

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Washing hands is a must and this you've already heard a lot of times by now. But washing hands only post unpacking and cleaning groceries isn't enough. The most common method of transmission is through touching an infected surface and then touching your products and face. Hence, you're supposed to clean your hands before cleaning your order too. Wash your hands in warm water, with a soap for at least 20 seconds.

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Once you take your orders inside the house, you must set it down on the counter or a surface area where you can properly disinfect it. But make sure you're not contaminating all different areas at every new delivery. Before you bring in the things, you need a designated area and use only that specific area each time to unpack the items and also clean them before you put them to use.

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Food safety experts think that in order to disinfect groceries, you need to be overly cautious. Remember that your food has probably been touched by a few people before it got delivered to you. Thus, it is a good idea to thoroughly wash the packaging or swab it with a disinfectant wipe and then wash the produces too.

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