117. Keeping Water at Human Body Temperature for Hours

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

116. Putting Plates Away Wet

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

115. Cats in the Kitchen

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cats in the kitchen (and the 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.

114. Water Cooled Beverages

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

113. Eating Snow

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

112. Expired Hand Sanitizer

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)

111. Snow Bank Refrigerator

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

110. Counter Top Nachos

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.

109. Uncooked Frozen Carrots*

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

108. Parking Lot Tamales

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

107. Slapping a Chicken to Cook It

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

106. Sharing Dessert

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

105. Week Old Room Temperature Bacon

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

104. Spagetti Nasal Flossing

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

103. Sourdough Bread With Russian Starter Culture

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

102. Perpetual Stew

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

101. Dirty Raw Fresh Mushrooms

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

100. Yogurt Past Its Best by Date

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

99. Drinking Soda Through Raw Pasta Straw

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

98. Donated Foods at End of the Day

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