I believe that Chris K. posted that into about a year ago.

"The center for disease control seems to think otherwise."

I suspect that the information is aimed at the 'lowest common denominator' of intelligence. If they didn't say to boil it for a minute, some dork holding a Bic under a cast iron pot would figure that two minutes of that should be good enough. The boiling gives people a definite point to aim for.

Sue