245. Licking an Ice Sculpture

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of licking an ice sculpture.

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

• Veronica Bryant (@NoroNerd) / Twitter
• Mary Kathrynn (@marydidyaknow) / Twitter
• Microbiological quality of ice used to refrigerate foods - ScienceDirect
• Ice as a vehicle for diarrheagenic Escherichia coli - ScienceDirect
• Ice sculpture - Wikipedia
• Multi-pathogen waterborne disease outbreak associated with a dinner cruise on Lake Michigan - PubMed
• Detection of Norovirus in Saliva Samples from Acute Gastroenteritis Cases and Asymptomatic Subjects: Association with Age and Higher Shedding in Stool - PubMed

From David W. Tharp, Executive Director, International Association for Food Protection: I'm not sure when this "tradition" began, but I'm fairly certain that there was an ice sculpture at my first meeting in 1993. From memory, Charlie Felix was the liaison to the Packaged Ice Association (now International Packaged Ice Association). Charlie worked from 1966 to 1985 for the Foodservice and Packaging Institute (per his LinkedIn profile). He became a publisher and consultant after 1985 and was active in IAFP through 2012.

244. Food Out of Temperature Control for 6 Hours

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating food held out of temperature control for 6 hours.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• Hors d'oeuvre - Wikipedia
• Mini Ham Quiches Recipe: How to Make It
• Frank's RedHot® Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe | Frank's RedHot® US
• ComBase
• Food Safety Talk 79: You’re Into Botulism Country (with Merlin Mann) — Food Safety Talk

243. Unrefrigerated Baileys Irish Cream After 6 Months

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming Baileys Irish Cream that has been unrefrigerated for 6 months.

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• Merch — Food Safety Talk
• helloLCBO | Shelf Life & Storage of Cream Liqueurs - General Knowledge
• John Roderick Performs "The Week Between" - YouTube
• Ultimate Guide to Baileys: Does It Go Bad? – The Kitchen Community

242. Brushing Teeth With Well Water

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of brushing teeth with well water in a town in Ontario.

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

• Helpless - YouTube
• Omemee, Ontario - Wikipedia
• Walkerton E. coli outbreak - Wikipedia
• Set it and forget it! The greatest infomercial tagline? - YouTube
• Medical officer of health - Wikipedia
• Cryptosporidium in Milwaukee’s water supply caused widespread illness

241. Unrefrigerated Pesto

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of holding pesto unrefrigerated for an extended period of time.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• Boxing Day - Wikipedia
• Current Food Safety Issues of Home-prepared Vegetables and Herbs Stored in Oil
• Garlic-in-oil associated botulism: episode leads to product modification. | AJPH | Vol. 80 Issue 11
• Outgrowth and Toxin Production by Clostridium botulinum in Bottled Chopped Garlic | Journal of Food Protection

240. "Lightly" Pasteurized OJ Left at Room Temp for 24 Hours

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of "lightly" pasteurized orange juice left at room temperature for 24 hours

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• Our Story | Simply® Beverages
• CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 - definition of pasteurization
• Botulism Associated with Commercial Carrot Juice --- Georgia and Florida, September 2006
• International Outbreak of Severe Botulism with Prolonged Toxemia Caused by Commercial Carrot Juice | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic
• Amazon.com: Customer Questions & Answers
• Ultra-high-temperature processing - Wikipedia

239. Turkey Meatballs From Jimmy Kimmels Steps

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating turkey meatballs dropped on Jimmy Kimmels steps

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• Happy birthday to @jimmykimmellive. Not only can this guy host the Oscars but he’s a great dad, an incredible pizza chef, and he even has to-go boxes at his house! So much love for this generous and hilarious person. ❤️ #jimmykimmel #meatballs #italian #birthday #comedy #talkshowhost #dinner #partyfoul #storytime #story #funnystory #fyp #fy #fypage
• Sorry, But The 5-Second Rule Was Debunked by Science Yet Again
• A systematic look at the five-second rule: Miranda and Schaffner edition | barfblog
• https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AEM.01838-16

238. Raw Egg Eggnog Refrigerated for 6 Months

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking raw egg eggnog refrigerated for 6 months.

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• Plan Ahead: 30-Day Eggnog - Ruhlman
• Survival of pathogenic microorganisms in an egg-nog-like product containing 7% ethanol - ScienceDirect
• If Eggnog Has Eggs in it, Why Is it Safe to Drink? | NC State News
• Would you like some eggs with your cocktail? | barfblog
• Tainted Eggnog Fatal to 4 Residents of a County Nursing Home in Jersey - The New York Times
• The Safe Way to Enjoy Eggnog This Winter | Homegrown | NC State University

237. My Twinkie Smells Like Poop

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating food near a sewage treatment plant.

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• Death and miasma in Victorian London: an obstinate belief | The BMJ
• Application of electronic nose as a non-invasive technique for odor fingerprinting and detection of bacterial foodborne pathogens: a review

236. Eating 2,400 Year Old Soup

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating 2,400 year old soup.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• (4) Brett Weed on Twitter: "Hey @benjaminchapman and @bugcounter, eating 2,400 year old soup—#riskyornot?" / Twitter
• Museum Archive on Twitter: "In 2010, Chinese archaeologists unearthed a 2,400-year-old bone soup in a sealed bronze cooking vessel near Xi'an in Northwest China. Because of oxidization, the soup turned green, but it was still in liquid form, and the bones were still floating on top https://t.co/IPolPGproi" / Twitter
• In 2010, Chinese archaeologists unearthed a 2,400-year-old bone soup in a sealed bronze cooking vessel near Xi'an in Northwest China. Because of oxidization, the soup turned green, but it was still in liquid form, and the bones were still floating on top [500x750] : ArtefactPorn
• Chinese archaeologists unearth 2,400-year-old 'soup' - BBC News
• Crystalline Preparation of Botulinum Toxin Type a (Botox): Degradation in Potency with Storage - Michael G. Gartlan, Henry T. Hoffman, 1993
• Measuring the potency labelling of onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox®) and incobotulinumtoxinA (Xeomin®) in an LD50 assay | SpringerLink
• Botox: A review - ProQuest
• Chinese archaeologists soon to taste 2400-year-old soup and wine?

235. Unheated Instant Hot Cocoa Powder

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating unheated instant hot cocoa powder.

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

• 43 Folders is not a prod-cast, it's just a good website
• Merch — Risky or Not?
• 11th Microbial Challenge Workshop - 2021 - International Association for Food Protection
• How to eat Ramen like a boss : comics
• Nestlé Recalls Chocolate Powder for Salmonella Risk | Food Safety News
• I secretly like to eat hot chocolate powdered mix by itself right out of the packet. Reddit, what delicious food quirks are you ashamed of? : AskReddit
• 47: Peanut Butter Fingering — Risky or Not?

234. Salmon at 43 °F for 15 Hours

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of holding salmon at 43 °F for 15 hours.

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• When Is Hanukkah (Chanukah) Celebrated in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025? - Hanukkah Dates - Chanukah - Hanukkah
• Risk of Growth and Toxin Production by Clostridium botulinum Nonproteolytic Types B, E, and F in Salmon Fillets Stored Under Modified Atmospheres at Low and Abused Temperatures | Journal of Food Protection
• Conservative Prediction of Time to Clostridium botulinum Toxin Formation for Use with Time-Temperature Indicators To Ensure the Safety of Foods | Journal of Food Protection

233. 100 Hour Lasagna

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating lasagna that is made over a 100 hour time period.

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• White elephant - Wikipedia
• Yankee Swap Rules –
• 100-Hour Lasagna - YouTube

232. Eating Produce Stickers

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating produce stickers.

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• (19) sjh_canada on Twitter: "@bugcounter https://t.co/88nt7VNjSB" / Twitter
• Does It Matter if I Eat the Stickers on Fruits and Vegetables? - The New York Times
• Natural-Light Labeling of Tomatoes Does Not Facilitate Growth or Penetration of Salmonella into the Fruit | Journal of Food Protection
• 211. Kinder Surprise Eggs — Risky or Not?
• Amazon.com: 1,000 Safety Caution Warning Stickers This Product Contains Small Parts in Its Unassembled State. Adult Assembly is Required 1 Roll of 1.5" x 0.4" Adhesive Labels (Yellow Background/Black Text) : Baby

231. S’mores Cooked on Pallet Wood

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from s’mores cooked on wood from pallets of unknown composition.

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

• Overview of Wood Preservative Chemicals | US EPA
• https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/ja/ja_mcmahon010.pdf
• Are Wood Pallets Safe for Reuse Projects? It Depends - Earth911
• Is my wood pallet safe for reuse - Learn how to know? • 1001 Pallets
• Human exposure and internal dose assessments of acrylamide in food - ScienceDirect
• Exposure to Acrylamide | SpringerLink
• Acrylamide | FDA

230. Un-cleanable Salad Spinners

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks posed by un-cleanable salad spinners.

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• AmazonSmile: Cuisinart Salad Spinner, Green and White, 5 Quart: Home & Kitchen
• AmazonSmile: Goodcook Touch Salad Spinner: Home & Kitchen
• Amazon.com: OXO Good Grips Large Salad Spinner - 6.22 Qt.: Home & Kitchen
• Laboratory accidents and breaches in biosafety – they do occur!
• Biosafety Challenges for the Food Microbiology Laboratory - Montville - 2012 - Journal of Food Safety - Wiley Online Library
• Salmonella Enteritidis infections associated with a contaminated immersion blender at a camp - PubMed
• Whole genome sequencing analyses of Listeria monocytogenes that persisted in a milkshake machine for a year and caused illnesses in Washington State | BMC Microbiology

229. Giving a Raw Turkey to a 13 Year Old

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of giving a raw turkey to a 13 year old to take home from school as a prize.

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• DANCE Synonyms: 54 Synonyms & Antonyms for DANCE | Thesaurus.com
• 7 Fun Facts About Turkey Trots | ACTIVE
• Management of Risk of Microbial Cross-Contamination from Uncooked Frozen Hamburgers by Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer | Journal of Food Protection
• Contamination by Meat Juice When Shopping for Packages of Raw Poultry | Journal of Food Protection

228. Trice Reheated Poultry

In a special American Thanksgiving holiday episode, Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of trice reheated poultry

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

• “Risky or Not 2021” graphic tee, pullover hoodie, tank, onesie, and pullover crewneck
• It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future – Quote Investigator
• Leftovers: The Gift that Keeps on Giving | USDA
• Turkey Enchiladas - Gimme Some Oven
• Simple Perfect Enchiladas Recipe | Ree Drummond | Food Network
• Trader Joe's Enchilada Sauce 12oz : Grocery & Gourmet Food

227. Open Turkey Bacon a Few Weeks After It's Best by Date

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating from an open turkey bacon package a few weeks after it's best by date.

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• Butterball Bacon Style Turkey | Walmart Canada
• ComBase

226. Putting Hot Food in the Fridge With a Lid

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from putting hot food in the fridge with a lid.

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• Snoop Dogg wants you to read your college syllabus I Cameo - YouTube
• corky on Twitter: "@benjaminchapman @bugcounter This video says it’s risky to put hot food in the fridge if you use a lid, but fine if you don’t use a lid. Is that true? #RiskyOrNot? https://t.co/grPBCLzDB7" / Twitter
• Cooling Foods in School Foodservice Operations Summary Report
• Influence of Four Retail Food Service Cooling Methods on the Behavior of Clostridium perfringens ATCC 10388 in Turkey Roasts following Heating to an Internal Temperature of 74°C | Journal of Food Protection
• Quantitative Data Analysis To Determine Best Food Cooling Practices in U.S. Restaurants
• O. Pete Snyder, food safety rock star | barfblog