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Because laboratories are places where chemicals are mixed, organic samples are dissected and microbes cultured, amongst other things. The risk of becoming poisoned, diseased or otherwise infected by eating or drinking in a lab is too high. What happens if you put down your sandwich on a surface that, an hour earlier, had been used for a brain dissection, or to culture fungi!

Furthermore, it's illegal to eat or drink in a lab, for these reasons.

Just remember,

"Billy was a chemist's son, but now he is no more!

What he thought was H20 was H2SO4!"

because chemicals may get into your body from your mouth, so it is very dangerous drinking and eating in the laboratory.


It is unsafe to your health. Their could be chemicals on the tables or in the air that would be harmful if you ingested them. You are adding material to a stasis environment. A labratory is a specific area that has as few variables as possible. If you add something to it, you change the results.
To avoid contamination of lab materials by food and/or contamination of food by lab materials.

Chemicals in a lab are generally dangerous to health. By placing food where it can be exposed to the chemicals, even if it just the fumes from it, the food will absorb the chemical. Drinks have the same problem and acids look just like water, drinking them is fatal.
For two reasons that are often linked.

1) You don't want crumbs of your food or drinks (not that you can have crumbs of a drink, but you get what I mean) to get into experiments, because they could alter the outcome and thus give you a wrong answer.

Imagine if you discovered the cure to cancer, but because a little bit of sugar (from a spilled drop of soda) got into the tests and made the drug look like it didn't cure anything, so you throw it out.

2) The reverse, you don't want a bits of spilled chemicals or experiments getting into your food, and through your food, into you.

Imagine if you are studying cynide. You don't really want to risk getting too much of that on your bigmac.

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