125. Fundraising Bake Sales

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

124. Shrimp Tails in a Cereal Box

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

123. NY Times Steak Tartare

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

122. Frozen Berry Smoothies

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

121. Greasy Grills

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

120. A Dog Licking Your Plate

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?

119. COVID-19 From Hookups

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

118. Potting Soil

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

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