148. High Meat

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of high meat.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️

Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Andrew H on Twitter: "High meat"? Seems extremely risky to me
• Michael Che Responds To Criticism Over ‘SNL’s Gen Z Hospital Sketch – Deadline
• ‘How do you do, fellow kids’ has become the ‘how do you do, fellow kids’ of memes - The Verge
• People are Eating Rotten, Raw Meat to 'Get High' in Dangerous Online Trend
• my experience with fermented high meat : Paleo
• Basturma
• Sujuk - Wikipedia
• High meat? How? : carnivore
• FDA Scombrotoxin (Histamine) Formation

147. Moldy Bread

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating bread after removing a small amount of mold.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼

Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Michelle Jewell on Twitter
• Mycotoxin migration in moldy foods - ScienceDirect
• Studies on the ability of mycotoxins to diffuse in bread | SpringerLink
• Model studies on the diffusion behavior of the mycotoxin patulin in apples, tomatoes, and wheat bread
• Sci-Hub | Diffusion of Aflatoxins in Foodstuffs
• Mould spoilage of bread: the problem and some solutions - ScienceDirect

146. Unrefrigerated Vegan Stuffed Squash

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating cooked vegan stuffed squash left unrefrigerated in the oven until the next day.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️

Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Michael Fessler on Twitter
• ‎Baked Potatoes and Botulism
• A large outbreak of botulism: the hazardous baked potato - PubMed

145. Swollen Kimchi

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating kimchi from a swollen container.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️

Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Beth McCoy | SUNY Geneseo
• Frederick Breidt : USDA ARS
• Understanding and Making Kimchi – Food Smart Colorado

144. 3D Printed Birthday Cake

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating 3D printed birthday cakes.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼

Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• 3D Printed Food: All You Need to Know in 2021 | All3DP
• ‎The Impact of New Food Technologies and New Foods on the Food Safety Professional
• 7 Exciting 3D Printed Food Projects Changing How We Eat Forever | 3DSourced
• Natural Machines Natural Machines
• Kourosh Dini | Mind, Music, and Productivity

143. Edible Insects

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

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼

Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• ‎Looking at Edible Insects From a Food Safety Perspective
• Audubon Butterfly Garden And Insectarium - New Orleans - Audubon Nature Institute
• Allergies to a Legume Called Lupin: What You Need to Know | FDA
• CPG Sec 555.600 Filth from Insects, Rodents, and Other Pests in Foods | FDA

142. Beeswax Wraps

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using beeswax wraps

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼

Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Beeswax Wraps by Nature Bee® - Canadian Made Reusable Food Wrap – Nature Bee Wraps
• The Anti-Microbial Effect of Food Wrap Containing Beeswax Products
• Efficacy of hand washing beeswax food wrap in household use

141. Vacuum Packaged Pizza In The Mail

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of sending vacuum packaged pizza in the mail.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️

Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Chris Waldrop on Twitter
• Colgate University Mailed Students Pizza. Food Safety Experts Weigh in
• The Complex Underworld of Lost Baggage Delivery - Underunderstood
• Food Safety Talk 58: Where's my wallet? — Food Safety Talk
• Colgate-Palmolive – Global Household & Consumer Products

140. Will's One Tong Grilling Method

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using the same tong to flip meat on a grill and to serve that meat.

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

• How do you avoid cross-contamination when grilling?
• Food Safety Consumer Research Project: Meal Preparation Experiment Related to Poultry Washing

139. One Moldy Berry

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating a batch of berries after the one moldy berry is removed.

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

• Mycotoxins in fruits and their processed products: Analysis, occurrence and health implications
• Mycotoxigenic potential of fungi isolated from freshly harvested Argentinean blueberries
• Molds on Food: Are They Dangerous?

"Friend of the pod" Dr. Linda Harris said: "Don - I appreciate your RON link to UCFood Safety website. BUT I found that our link to this was outdated. You should update your link to this:"

• Molds on Food: Are They Dangerous?

Best practice: don't re-host PDF's on your website, link to the original and then update links when they go stale.

• This Is What Eating Moldy Fruit Does To Your Body | HuffPost Life

138. Non Airtight Bags of Chips

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating chips from a bag that is not air-tight.

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

• A review of acoustic research for studying the sensory perception of crisp, crunchy and crackly textures
• Smart packaging systems for food applications: a review
• FDA Food Tampering fact sheet
• 'Food terrorism' and other possible culprits behind the strawberry contamination scare - ABC News

137. Tap Water in Mexico

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking tap water in Mexico.

• Fecal Contamination of Drinking-Water in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
• Unsafe waters: the hydrosocial cycle of drinking water in Western Mexico
• Evaluation of water quality through the distribution system in Cancún, Mexico
• An outbreak of norovirus infection caused by ice cubes and a leaking air ventilation valve

136. Eating Cold Leftovers

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating cold leftovers.

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

• Leftovers, Partnership for Food Safety Education
• Warmed‐Over Flavor in Cooked Meats
• FDA Model Food Code 3-403.11 Reheating for Hot Holding

135. Coffee (Or Tea) With Milk on a Mug Warmer for 6 Plus Hours

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of keeping coffee (or tea) with milk on a mug warmer for 6 plus hours.

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

• Cortex - Relay FM
• Relay FM
• 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 and Inspection Service
• I like my sugar with coffee and cream - YouTube
• Ember®: The World’s First Temperature Control Mug
• ComBase Perfringens Predictor
• CB Premium

134. Blowing Out Candles on a Birthday Cake

Dr. Don and Professor Ben have a special birthday episode for the birthday boy (Ben) and talk about the risks from eating cake where someone has blown out candles.

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

* depending upon the month

• Patrick Ford on Twitter: blowing out candles on a birthday cake!
• Blowing Out Birthday Candles Increases Cake Bacteria by 1,400 Percent - The Atlantic
• Bacterial Transfer Associated with Blowing Out Candles on a Birthday Cake | Dawson | Journal of Food Research | CCSE
• Detection of NoroviruElizabeth Newbold <Elizabeth.Newbold@uvm.edu data-preserve-html-node="true">s in Saliva Samples from Acute Gastroenteritis Cases and Asymptomatic Subjects: Association with Age and Higher Shedding in Stool - PubMed

133. Storing Eggs in the Car for a Few Days

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of forgetting your eggs in the car for a few days

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

• neil chazin on Twitter
• Egg safety - Canada.ca
• Glass Half Empty on Twitter
• Risk Assessment Models for Salmonella Enteritidis in Shell Eggs and Salmonella spp. in Egg Products | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• TextExpander – Productivity App | Text Expander
• Modelling survival behaviour of Salmonella enterica ser. Enteritidis, Typhimurium and Tennessee on table eggs during storage at different temperatures - ScienceDirect

132. Sending Unheated Hot Dogs in a Kids Lunch

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of sending unheated hot dogs in a kids lunch

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

• ComBase
• Reducing the Incidence of Listeria on Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products – Three Alternatives, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Meat Process Validation
• Controlling Listeria monocytogenes in Post-lethality Exposed Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• Interagency Risk Assessment: Listeria monocytogenes in Retail Delicatessens - Technical Report

131. Not Following the FDA Model Food Code Handwashing Directions

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks that might arise from not following the FDA Model Food Code handwashing directions

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

• Scientific Evidence Supports the Use of Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizers as an Effective Alternative to Handwashing in Retail Food and Foodservice Settings When Heavy Soiling is Not Present on Hands | Journal of Food Protection
• Alcohol-based Hand Sanitizers vs. Handwashing: What Should Food Handlers Do? | News
• “Churchill” on Prepositions | Common Errors in English Usage and More | Washington State University
• Assessment of Food Safety Practices of Food Service Food Handlers (Risk Assessment Data): Testing a Communication Intervention (Evaluation of Tools) | Journal of Food Protection
• Health Department Inspection Criteria More Likely To Be Associated with Outbreak Restaurants in Minnesota | Journal of Food Protection
• The Bathroom Boys | Do By Friday

130. Drinking Civit Poop Coffee

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking coffee made from beans pooped our by a civit.

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

• Gluconobacter dominates the gut microbiome of the Asian palm civet Paradoxurus hermaphroditus that produces kopi luwak [PeerJ]
• Is Kopi Luwak safe to drink? - Coffee Stack Exchange
• Campus News: Kopi luwak coffee safe, U of G study finds
• What is Kopi Luwak? (and Why You Shouldn't Drink it) - Coffee Affection
• What is kopi luwak? A literature review on production, quality and problems
• Beall's List – of Potential Predatory Journals and Publishers

129. Sushi From Non-Sushi Grade Fish

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating sushi made from non-sushi grade fish.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️

Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Dr Sophia Frentz 🌈 on Twitter
• What's the Deal With Tuna Scrape? | Food Safety News
• What Is "Sushi-Grade," Anyway? A Guide to Eating Raw Fish at Home | Serious Eats
• FDA Food Code 2017