Granite Counters Dangerous to our Health?

Trey

Granite has low levels of radon. If you open and close an door or a window of your home you mitigate the radon. Also the granite tops should be sealed.

Good luck and success

Lou Ludwig

Informative post, I hadn't heard this before.  Well....I guess I do know that we are supposed to keep our counter tops clean. 

I still want granite in my kitchen! 

I want granite too.  And you are so right about the cleanliness thing.  Actually we keep our formica counter so clean that you wouldn't mind eating off of it.  Under the counter is a stack of cutting boards so that there is always a clean one available.  There are a lot of ways to have granite without germs.

Trey - this is the first time I have heard the germ issue. I have heard the radon story before.

Little know fact, wood cutting boards tend to have less germs than the plastic ones. Not sure why.

You just never know what kind of problems people can come up with for the materials we use in our homes.

Granite camoflauges the bread crumbs. Just keep it sealed and use cutting boards because like you said, it's almost become a household name.

A counter is not a plate!  Who would eat off a counter?  Sometimes the studies done play on our fears.  We need a few germs around so we can develop antibodies and stave off infections.  No pain no gain.

Trey,

Granite tops are most dangerous when we bang our heads on them

LOL