Do you better use anything special to clean it with?
A 2004 study found that common household cleaners could easily remove all traces of peanut protein from tables.
Researchers smeared a teaspoon of peanut butter over a square foot of the clean table.
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They then washed it off and tested the clean table for the presence of peanut protein.
(This finding is strange since soap should clean better than plain water.)
However, just to be safest, you should consider using one of the above cleaners instead.
Washing Hands
Plain oldsoap and waterare the most effective tools for removing peanut residue from hands.
In none of these cases were the researchers able to detect any airborne peanut protein.
In three of these cases, peanut butter was being heated up in the classroom.
In the final case, a child was sitting next to 15 preschoolers who were eating peanut butter crackers.
J Allergy Clin Immunol.
