Risky or Not?

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from leaving milk on the counter over night. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• pandasPause on Twitter
• Casey Neistat - Wikipedia
• Allen Pike on Twitter: "@atpfm I laughed so hard at "Who the hell is Casey" that I had to pause the podcast
• Casey Liss (@caseyliss) / Twitter
• ComBase

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making blown out eggs for Easter. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Stale Peeps And The People Who Won't Eat Them Any Other Way | HuffPost Life
• Enjoy Easter a Little Longer with Blown Out Colored Eggs - Egg Safety Center
• Egg Safety | Food Safety
• How To Blow Out An Egg | A Step-by-Step Guide
• Amazon.com : Egg blower

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from cooking with non food grade essential oils. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• How Do I Choose and Use Essential Oils? | Taking Charge of Your Health & Wellbeing
• How Do I Choose and Use Essential Oils? | Taking Charge of Your Health & Wellbeing
• FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) Public Dashboard | FDA
• Essential Oils: Poisonous when Misused
• Essential oils – Health warning
• Aromatherapy | FDA
• Amazon.com : Angel Bake Pure Lavender Extract : Grocery & Gourmet Food

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from fundraising bake sales. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Bake Sale Bumper Sticker
• FDA Investigated Multistate Outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli Infections Linked to Flour | FDA
• A multi-state outbreak of Salmonella serotype Thompson infection from commercially distributed bread contaminated by an ill food handler | Epidemiology & Infection | Cambridge Core
• Six food safety tips for bake sales - MSU Extension
• Bake Sale Guidelines | Student Leadership & Involvement | Allegheny College
• Ontario Northwestern Health Unit, Food Safety Guidelines for Bake Sales

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of finding shrimp tails in a cereal box.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am (Official Music Video) - YouTube

• Jensen Karp on Twitter: "Ummmm @CTCSquares - why are there shrimp tails in my cereal? (This is not a bit) https://t.co/tTjiAdrnVp" / Twitter

• Man Says He Found Shrimp Tails in Cinnamon Toast Crunch - The New York Times

• Indianmeal moth - Wikipedia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risk of eating NY Times recipe steak tartare. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Joe Holt on Twitter
• What to Cook This Week
• Steak Tartare Recipe - NYT Cooking
• 83. Cannibal or Tiger Meat Sandwiches — Risky or Not?
• FSIS Salmonella Compliance Guidelines for Small and Very Small Meat and Poultry Establishments that Produce Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Products and Revised Appendix A | Food Safety Inspection Service
• From what cuts of beef are ground beef and hamburger made?
• Year-to-Date Totals: Testing of Raw Ground Beef and Raw Ground Beef Component Samples for E. coli O157:H7 | Food Safety Inspection Service
• Sampling Verification Activities for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in Raw Beef Products

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from frozen berry smoothies. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Indrani on Twitter
• 109. Uncooked Frozen Carrots* — Risky or Not?
• Microbiological Surveillance Sampling: FY 19-20 Frozen Berries (Strawberries, Raspberries and Blackberries) | FDA
• Farm to fork quantitative microbial risk assessment for norovirus on frozen strawberries - ScienceDirect
• FSAI warns of virus risk in imported frozen berry supply chain | Food Safety News
• Food Safety Talk 156: Rank the Kato's — Food Safety Talk

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from greasy grills. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• 3 Things You Should Be Doing to Prevent Kitchen Exhaust Fires | FSR magazine
• Acrylamide | FDA

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of a dog licking your plate. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• For Better or For Worse, Sunday, January 4, 1998
• Can I Get Sick If I Feed My Dog Using Regular Plates From the Cabinet?

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of getting COVID-19 from hookups. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Canada's top doctor: 'consider using a mask' during sexual activity | CTV News
• William Schaffner, M.D. | Department of Health Policy

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from potting soil. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Exposure to potting soils and compost material as potential sources of Legionella pneumophilia in Australia - ScienceDirect
• ‎Pine Species Provide a Niche for Legionella Longbeachae
• Does Potting Mix Cause Legionnaires' Disease in Gardeners? - Garden Myths
• Legionella longbeachae and Legionellosis
• Legionnaires Disease Cause and Spread | Legionella | CDC
• Legionnaires' Disease Associated With Potting Soil — California, Oregon, and Washington, May–June 2000
• An outbreak of Pontiac fever due to Legionella longbeachae serogroup 2 found in potting mix in a horticultural nursery in New Zealand | Epidemiology & Infection | Cambridge Core
• Popcorn Lung – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment
• Risk Factors for Legionella longbeachae Legionnaires' Disease, New Zealand

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of keeping water at human body temperature for hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Laryssa Patti on Twitter
• Baby Brezza® Instant Electric 3-Temperature Bottle Warmer in White | buybuy BABY
• Quantifying the Influence of Relative Humidity, Temperature, and Diluent on the Survival and Growth of Enterobacter aerogenes | Journal of Food Protection
• ‎Overview of a Risk Assessment Model for Enterobacter sakazakii in Powdered Infant Formula
• Baby Brezza Instructions for Set-Up, Use and Cleaning
• Questions & Answers for Consumers Concerning Infant Formula | FDA
• Infant formula: 7 steps to prepare it safely - Mayo Clinic
• Infant Formula Preparation and Storage | Nutrition | CDC

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risk of putting plates away wet. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Surface Sanitation and Microbiological Food Quality of a University Foodservice Operation
• CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21
• https://www.fda.gov/media/110822/download
• Cutting Boards of Plastic and Wood Contaminated Experimentally with Bacteria | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press
• Kitchen equipment needed to prepare food safely | UMN Extension
• Dish Washing Cleaning Tips - Things to Avoid | Kitchn
• Wash Rinse Sanitize Poster
• Champaign Urbana Public Health District

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cats in the kitchen (on your silver spoon)? Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Cat's in the Cradle - Wikipedia
• Sources of toxoplasma infection in pregnant women: European multicentre case-control studyCommentary: Congenital toxoplasmosis—further thought for food | The BMJ
• Risk factors for acute toxoplasmosis in England and Wales | Epidemiology & Infection | Cambridge Core
• Ranking the Risks: The 10 Pathogen-Food Combinations With the Greatest Burden on Public Health
• Occurrence of Campylobacter jejuni in Pets Living with Human Patients Infected with C. jejuni
• The Public Health Laboratory Service national case-control study of primary indigenous sporadic cases of campylobacter infection.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from drinking beverages cooled natural water sources. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Recreational Water Quality Criteria and Methods | Water Quality Criteria | US EPA
• Lettuce sickens 690 with Cyclospora - FDA finds link to Florida water | Food Poison Journal
• EPA Giardia Factsheet
• Recreational Water Illnesses (RWIs).
• CDC - Parasites - Water

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating snow. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Is eating snow dangerous? | AccuWeather
• Snowflakes Aren't Innocent and Fluffy—They're Bacteria Bombs from the Sky | Discover Magazine
• Southern Snow Cream Recipe - Food.com
• Diversity and association of psychrophilic bacteria in Antarctic sea ice
• Converting rain into drinking water: quality issues and technological advances | Water Supply | IWA Publishing
• Heavy metal assessment and water quality values in urban stream and rain water | SpringerLink

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using expired hand sanitizer. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Q&A for Consumers | Hand Sanitizers and COVID-19 | FDA
• Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR)

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing your food in a snow bank. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Michelle Jewell on Twitter: "@ChillOutACE_ @benjaminchapman @bugcounter Risky or not??" / Twitter
• Haddie Cooke on Twitter: "No power since 2am Monday, ~52° inside, 8° outside, cooked a few meals in the fireplace, no hot water, firewood getting low, all fridge/freezer food outside in the half foot of snow! This is INSANE!! Lots of layers, hats, socks, and blankets! 🥶 https://t.co/EMkk1ZOZaQ" / Twitter
• ‎CFP Emergency Action Plan for Retail Food Establishments

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating counter top nachos. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Food Safety Talk
• Big Game - Wikipedia
• Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "🤮 I'd pass…
• Kitchen Carts & Islands - Rolling, Metal, Butcher Block - IKEA
• We Want Plates
• We Want Plates 🍽 (@WeWantPlates) / Twitter
• IKEA Groland Butcher Block Island - Apartment Therapy's Bazaar.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating uncooked frozen carrots*.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 * Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• El Chico Mexican Restaurant Relish | SPCrahan | Copy Me That
• Recall & Advice to Consumers and Retailers Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Frozen Vegetables | Listeria | CDC
• Alternative approaches to the risk management of Listeria monocytogenes in low risk foods
• Listeria monocytogenes survival in refrigerator dill pickles - PubMed

* Where Dr. Don assumes you are not pregnant or immunocompromised and Professor Ben does not make that assumption.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating parking lot tamales.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Emily Coleman on Twitter: "There was a woman in the Walmart parking lot selling tamales and I bought them and Abi said, "Did you really just do that?" And I told her that when a woman offers you tamales in a parking lot, you just do it."
• ‎Knowledge and Practices of Meat Safety by Meat Sellers in the Tamale Metropolis of Ghana
• Tamale - Wikipedia
• Every Single Thing You Need to Know About Mexican Street Food - Eater

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of slapping your chicken.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "The simulation shows lots of bits of blue flying away, so I'm going to assume that is 63°F chicken flying around your kitchen
• Matt's Newsletter
• Full article: A review on underwater shockwave processing and its application in food technology
• Physics Major Calculates How Hard You Have To Slap Chicken To Cook It And People React With Hilarious Memes | Bored Panda

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of sharing dessert on Valentines (or any other) Day

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Is Double-Dipping a Food Safety Problem or Just a Nasty Habit? - Scientific American
• Effect of Biting Before Dipping (Double‐Dipping) Chips on the Bacterial Population of the Dipping Solution
• Woman Who Licked Blue Bell Ice Cream Tub And Put It Back Could Face Charges : NPR
• Emerging role of bacteria in oral carcinogenesis: a review with special reference to perio-pathogenic bacteria
• Saliva and viral infections
• Detection of Norovirus in Saliva Samples from Acute Gastroenteritis Cases and Asymptomatic Subjects: Association with Age and Higher Shedding in Stool - PubMed

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating week old room temperature bacon.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Evaluating Microbial Safety of Slow Partial-Cooking Processes for Bacon: Use of a Predictive Tool Based on Small-Scale Isothermal Meat Inoculation Studies
• Predicting Pathogen Growth during Short-Term Temperature Abuse of Raw Pork, Beef, and Poultry Products: Use of an Isothermal-Based Predictive Tool
• Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center Cooked Bacon Fact Sheet.pdf
• US Food & Drug Administration - Job Aid: Time and Temperature Control for Safety Foods

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of flossing your nose with spagetti.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Distinguishing the dominant species of pathogen in maxillary sinusitis by sequencing DNA dataset analysis - PubMed
• Predictive Model for Growth of Bacillus cereus at Temperatures Applicable to Cooling of Cooked Pasta
• Biochemical and toxic diversity of Bacillus cereus in a pasta and meat dish associated with a food-poisoning case
• Spaghetti Nasal Flossing - YouTube

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating sourdough bread made with starter culture ordered from Russia.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Rob Dunn | Applied Ecology | NC State University
• Safety Assessment and Probiotic Evaluation of Enterococcus Faecium YF5 Isolated from Sourdough
• Take Care when Sharing Friendship Bread
• Sourdough breads and related products | SpringerLink
• A multi-state outbreak of Salmonella serotype Thompson infection from commercially distributed bread contaminated by an ill food handler | Epidemiology & Infection
• Growth of Salmonella enterica and Staphylococcus aureus in no-knead bread dough during prolonged yeast fermentation - PubMed

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating perpetual stew.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• shaney gober on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman Has this come to you guys yet? https://t.co/0DGwnhYoR7" / Twitter
• Perpetual stew. How is it safe to consume? - Quora
• Perpetual Stew: Is it good? Is it safe (compared to modern food practices)? Has anyone done it? : kingdomcome
• The Stew You Brew (and Eat) for Years: Perpetual Stew | HowStuffWorks
• Louro perpetual stew (@perpetual_stew) / Twitter
• Why You Shouldn't Be Terrified of This Never-Ending Stew | Food & Wine
• Is Medieval Perpetual Stew for You? - AleHorn - Viking Drinking Horn Vessels and Accessories

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating dirty raw fresh mushrooms.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Incidence of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, Escherichia coli O157, Salmonella, and Listeria monocytogenes in Retail Fresh Ground Beef, Sprouts, and Mushrooms | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press
• Evaluation of Microbial Loads on Dried and Fresh Shiitake Mushrooms (Lentinula edodes) as Obtained from Internet and Local Retail Markets, Respectively
• Outbreak of Listeria Infections Linked to Enoki Mushrooms | Outbreak of Listeria Infections Linked to Enoki Mushrooms | March 2020 | Listeria | CDC
• Cultivable microbiome of fresh white button mushrooms - Rossouw - 2017 - Letters in Applied Microbiology - Wiley Online Library
• Microbial ecology of mushroom casing soils and preharvest strategies to enhance safety and quality of fresh mushrooms

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating yogurt past its best by date.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• FoodKeeper App | FoodSafety.gov
• Behavior of Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus in Yogurt Fermented with a Bacteriocin-Producing Thermophilic Starter | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking soda through a raw pasta straw.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
• Bucatini - Wikipedia
• Survival of Microorganisms in Stored Pasta | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press
• The Extended Conformation of the 2.9-Å Crystal Structure of the Three-PASTA Domain of a Ser/Thr Kinase from the Human Pathogen Staphylococcus aureus - ScienceDirect
• Improved Electrotransformation and Decreased Antibiotic Resistance of the Cystic Fibrosis Pathogen Burkholderia cenocepacia Strain J2315 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Effects of industrial pasta drying temperatures on starch properties and pasta quality - ScienceDirect
• Microbiological Quality of Raw Dried Pasta from the German Market, with Special Emphasis on Cronobacter Species - Akineden - 2015 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library
• Outbreak of E. coli Infections Linked to Flour | E. coli Infections Linked to Flour | May 2019 | E. coli | CDC
• Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung Escherichia coli in flour – sources, risks and prevention

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from donated foods at end of the day.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Jon Fisher on Twitter: "Paging @bugcounter and @benjaminchapman. Please see this thread. Why is this a thing?" / Twitter
• Walter Chaw 周瑜 on Twitter: "At Starbucks, we were instructed to throw away all the sandwiches/salads/protein plates at the end of the day. No, you can't take them home. No, you can't donate them. Throw them away. We considered it "theft" and you would be fired if you didn't toss them. Multiply by 31,256." / Twitter
• Food Safety Guidelines for Food Banks | Feeding America
• Stew of Sustainability 2020 | Fundraising Video - YouTube

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from the beer in two beer steak.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• William Coney on Twitter: "Ricky or not? @bugcounter @benjaminchapman" / Twitter
• ᴄᴀɪᴛ on Twitter: "i love this province i don't ever want to leave https://t.co/vEmYtnu1ZD" / Twitter
• Centreville Valufoods/ ANBL Agency | Facebook
• Microbiological baseline study of beef and pork carcasses from provincially inspected abattoirs in Alberta, Canada
• Bacteria on Can Lids
• About | Valufoods | Hartland's & Centreville's Community Groceries

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating raw sprouts.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Jonathan's Sprouts - Jonathan's Sprouts
• ISGA – International Sprout Growers Association
• FDA Concludes Major Sampling Study of Sprouts | FDA
• Sprout Safety Alliance | FDA
• Advice to Consumers & Retailers | Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Muenchen Infections Linked to Alfalfa Sprouts Produced by Sweetwater Farms | February 2016 | Salmonella | CDC
• Microgreens—A review of food safety considerations along the farm to fork continuum - ScienceDirect
• Barf Blog - A great resource on why we should reconsider Sprouts | Marler Blog

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating food from rodent gnawed packages.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Gnawed food packets for sale and active rodent infestations triggers closure of businesses and restaurants
• Mice infestations close sushi restaurant and Asian food market
• How do Rodents Play Role in Transmission of Foodborne Diseases?
• Rule of thumb - Wikipedia
• List of Predatory Publishers | Stop Predatory Journals

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making and shipping room temperature fermented hot sauce.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Kimchi Handout Colorado State
• Frank's RedHot

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of Using inversion method for jams and jellies.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Ben Stanfield on Twitter: Jam canning advice from one of the year's top cookbooks and a celebrated chef. Risky or not? https://t.co/BXSp5nS6TY" / Twitter
• Baking at the 20th Century Cafe: Iconic European Desserts from Linzer Torte to Honey Cake: Polzine, Michelle: 9781579658984: Amazon.com: Books
• National Center for Home Food Preservation | How Do I? Jam and Jelly
• Judging Home Preserved Foods
• Inversion Canning - Healthy Canning
• Food Safety Talk 217: Fruit Forward — Food Safety Talk
• Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving
• Food Preservation Competition

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of refrigerating unopened canned food. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Ocean Spray® Jellied Cranberry Sauce | Ocean Spray
• Lyme disease - Wikipedia
• Phytophotodermatitis - Wikipedia
• Cranberries: Best Food for Lyme, an Ulcer, Cancer and Brain | Psychology Today

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating roadkill. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• The Jungle - Wikipedia
• FSIS Veterinary Opportunities
• Transmission | Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) | CDC
• Proper Processing of Wild Game and Fish - Food Safety - Home Food Safety - Food Safety and Quality
• Occurrence | Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) | Prion Disease | CDC
• Armadillos and leprosy: from infection to biological model

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from automatic dishwasher seals.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• The dishwasher rubber seal acts as a reservoir of bacteria in the home environment - PubMed
• Dishwashers–a man-made ecological niche accommodating human opportunistic fungal pathogens - PubMed
• Dishwashers are a major source of human opportunistic yeast-like fungi in indoor environments in Mersin, Turkey: Medical Mycology: Vol 51, No 5
• A method to evaluate factors influencing the microbial reduction in domestic dishwashers - Brands - 2020 - Journal of Applied Microbiology - Wiley Online Library

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using public bathroom mouthwash. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Tom Joad on Twitter: "@benjaminchapman @bugcounter Is this normal? And….why? Why? https://t.co/gTEeR7Vwxx" / Twitter
• GotFreshBreath Mouthwash Dispenser
• All Products | GotFreshBreath
• Manual Mouthwash Dispenser Installation Guide | GotFreshBreath
• Biotene - Wikipedia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from ordering and eating mail order meat.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• David Sinclair on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman Obviously this is not safe, but I'd be curious about your thoughts on mail order meat generally: ☢️ risky or 👍 not?" / Twitter
• Prevalence of Pathogens and Indicators in Foods Ordered From Online Vendors
• Food Safety Challenges in the Modern Food Delivery World by Donald Schaffner – In Defense of Processed Food
• ‎Online Purveyors of Raw Meat, Poultry, and Seafood Products: Delivery Policies and Available Consumer Food Safety Information
• Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections associated with nonintact blade-tenderized frozen steaks sold by door-to-door vendors - PubMed

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating 27 lbs of unrefrigerated feta cheese.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Athenos Natural, Feta Cheese - 9 lb, Nutrition Information | Innit
• Microbiological quality of white‐brined cheeses: a review - Bintsis - 2002 - International Journal of Dairy Technology - Wiley Online Library
• Storage Temperatures Necessary to Maintain Cheese Safety - International Association for Food Protection
• https://www.foodprotection.org/members/fpt-archive-articles/2006-10storage-temperatures-necessary-to-maintain-cheese-safety/
• https://www.henningscheese.com/pdf/storage_temperatures_necessary_to_maintain_cheese_safety.pdf

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of thawing poultry at room temperature.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• (18) Savana on Twitter: "@VectorSciNikki @benjaminchapman @bugcounter You guys can probably explain more eloquently than I can" / Twitter
• (18) Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "Room temperature thawing of frozen meat is an interesting topic that comes up from time to time. If you check all of the food safety advice websites they will tell you that it is not safe to do this. (1/18)" / Twitter
• Staphylococcus aureus - Wikipedia
• Home

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of doing a "shoey".

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• The shoey: Why it's a bad idea to copy Daniel Ricciardo's F1 podium ritual - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using aseptic chicken broth on the counter for 2 days.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• (18) Glass Half Empty on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman Help! I just discovered that I left an open Tetra Pak box of chicken broth on the counter for 2 days. Smells okay. Is it risky to use it or not? https://t.co/tiCODvC33p" / Twitter
• The Effects of Heat Activation on Bacillus Spore Germination, with Nutrients or under High Pressure, with or without Various Germination Proteins | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating cannibal or tiger meat sandwiches.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• (18) fedsoc sucks on Twitter: "Steak tartare but make it fucking stupid" / Twitter
• Cannibal Sandwiches: A Polarizing And Misunderstood Wisconsin Tradition | Wisconsin Public Radio
• Notes from the Field: Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreak Associated with Seasonal Consumption of Raw Ground Beef — Wisconsin, December 2012–January 2013
• Welcome to CDC stacks |
• Outbreak of Salmonella Serotype Typhimurium Infection Associated with Eating Raw Ground Beef – Wisconsin, 1994

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of peeling cementines with your teeth.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Quantification of Transfer of Salmonella from Citrus Fruits to Peel, Edible Portion, and Gloved Hands during Hand Peeling | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press
• Coliforms, Escherichia coli and Salmonella Serovars Associated with a Citrus-Processing Facility Implicated in a Salmonellosis Outbreak | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of shipping pumpkin pie cross country.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Julie Weiss on Twitter: Love your show!!!Shipping a homemade frozen pumpkin pie cross-country overnight.
• Evaluation and Definition of Potentially Hazardous Foods
• Turns out it was Tiff, not Marco, Don regrets mis-speaking
• Nick Fragedakis - Program Director and Acidified Foods Process Authority
• Growth of Salmonella typhimurium and Staphylococcus aureus in Retail Pumpkin Pies1 | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press
• The Complex Underworld of Lost Baggage Delivery - Underunderstood

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating very old canned soup.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• (3) John Wyatt on Twitter: "@TorontoStar @parkdalefoodbnk @bugcounter @benjaminchapman - Risky or not?" / Twitter
• 'I'm just hungry.' Toronto man vows to eat 14-year-old can of soup in hopes of raising $10,000 for local food bank | The Star
• Donate Now - Parkdale Community Food Bank
• Can infant formula and baby food be used after the date expires?
• Food Product Dating
• Cuff The Duke - Confessions From A Parkdale Basement (Official Audio) - YouTube
• Parkdale Community Food Bank on Instagram: "Hey guys, @liborio_verne here. I am eternally grateful for your support and enthusiasm out of what was essentially a joke. Together, we…"
• Food Safety Talk 196: Superintendent of Judges
• Parkdale, Toronto - Wikipedia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risk of rinsing (not washing) your Sodastream bottles between uses.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• SodaStream Bottle Cleaning Tips -
• Sodastream Zylinder selbst nachfüllen
• An overview of microorganisms and factors contributing for the microbial stability of carbonated soft drinks - ScienceDirect
• Surface Sanitation and Microbiological Food Quality of a University Foodservice Operation - Buckalew - 1996 - Foodservice Research International - Wiley Online Library