265. Sewer Shrimp

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating shrimp harvested from a sewer and washed in a bathroom.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 on Twitter: "4. More Sewer Shrimp Photos "A series of disturbing photos have exposed the antics of shrimp sellers in Wuhan who were seen scavenging shrimp from the sewers to sell to the unsuspecting public" https://t.co/ixHubGEjcG https://t.co/WUTarPqs1Z" / Twitter
• Photos Show Vendors in China Using 'Sewer Shrimp' to Make Street Food
• Chinese people still cooking with 'fatbergs' from sewer as coronavirus crisis deepens - Daily Star
• Stocking your Aquarium: Dive into the World of Freshwater Shrimp
• Hepatitis A increase in Chinese province linked to seafood | Food Safety News

264. Kapchunka

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of Kapchunka

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Russ & Daughters on Instagram: “It's our bagel corner now, but do you know what used to hang in its place? KAPCHUNKAS. Yes, this #tbt we're evoking the old-school…”
• Kamchatka Peninsula - Wikipedia
• Botulism Associated with Commercially Distributed Kapchunka -- New York City
• International Outbreak of Type E Botulism Associated With Ungutted, Salted Whitefish
• CPG Sec 540.650 Uneviscerated Fish Products that are Salt-cured, Dried, or Smoked (Revised) | FDA

263. Eating Foods Labeled as “Made in a Facility” With a Food to Which You Are Allergic

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks eating foods labeled as “made in a facility” with a food to which you are allergic.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Food Allergy Research & Education
• Food Allergy Research and Resource Program | Nebraska
• Which Allergens Are in Your Food? You Can’t Always Tell From the Labels - The New York Times
• Food Allergen Labeling and Purchasing Habits in the United States and Canada - The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice

262. Justin's Leftover Steak, Cooked on the Use-By Date and Eaten Two Days Later

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of steak, cooked on the use-by date and eaten two days later.

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

• Justin on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman #RiskyOrNot eating leftover pre-cut steak (i.e., stir fry steak) that was cooked on the “use by” date 2 days after the “use by” date. (In my mind, the game clock reset when I cooked it, but my wife wants an expert opinion.)" / Twitter
• Listeria - Wikipedia
• Food Product Dating | Food Safety and Inspection Service

261. Sam's Plowed Snow and Ice

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks faced by Ben's son Sam when Sam eats plowed up snow and ice at his school.

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

• Amazon.com : Trideer Inflated Wobble Cushion - Wiggle Seat for Sensory Kids(Multiple Colors), Core Balance Disc (Extra Thick), Flexible Seating for All Age(Office & School & Home) (34cm Avocado) : Sports & Outdoors
• 113. Eating Snow — Risky or Not?
• Letterkenny (TV series) - Wikipedia)

260. Wegmans Cook in a Bag Meal Cooked in a Slow Cooker

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating a "cook in bag meal" designed to be cooked in a slow cooker when cooked in a slow cooker.

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

• Cook-in-Bag Entrees: Delicious flavor, cooks perfect every time - YouTube
• Cook-in-Bag Meat Entrees - Wegmans
• Cook-in-Bag Meat Entrees - Wegmans
• Cook-in-Bag Meals - Wegmans
• Slow cookers and food safety | UMN Extension

259. Eating a Food or at a Restaurant Again, After (You Think) It Made You Sick

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks eating a food or at a restaurant again, after (you think) it made you sick

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

• Report Food Poisoning Now. Protect Others.
• Patrick Quade on Twitter: ""...one more shot", "...have my husband try it" - we get quite a few 'double down' reports like this. We think it's generally not a good idea. Thoughts? @benjaminchapman @bugcounter @okieokra @c_zoellner #iwaspoisoned https://t.co/UffU9hXcb8" / Twitter
• Leftovers Make You sick? What you need to know
• Food Safety Talk 254: Bridge-Tunnel-Bridge-Tunnel — Food Safety Talk
• Toffee-tastic® | Little Brownie Bakers

258. Re-Using Boxed Fish Fry Stored at Room Temperature

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of re-using boxed fish fry stored at room temperature.

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

• 246. Re-Using Plastic Bags — Risky or Not?
• Zatarain's® Crispy Southern Fish Fri | Zatarain's
• The Places of Athens throughout the Decades | Magazine | redandblack.com
• Athens, GA Restaurant Behind R.E.M.'s "Automatic for the People" to Close - Eater

257. Sous Vide Brisket for One Month at 131 °F

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks eating sous vide brisket cooked for one month at 131 °F.

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

• I COOKED a Brisket for a MONTH and this happened! - YouTube
• 180. Stinky Sous Vide — Risky or Not?
• ComBase

256. Sniffing Milk Instead Using Expiration Dates

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of sniffing milk instead using expiration dates.

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

• Morrisons scraps use by dates on milk in favour of sniff test | News | The Grocer
• Short communication: Bacterial ecology of high-temperature, short-time pasteurized milk processed in the United States - ScienceDirect
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a cause of infectious diarrhoea - PubMed
• Identification and Pathogenic Potential of Clinical Bacillus and Paenibacillus Isolates - PubMed

255. Lining Wooden Beer Casks With Pine Pitch in Czech Tradition

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of lining wooden beer casks with pine pitch in Czech tradition.

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

• The Caipirinha: Fun to Make, Easy to Drink, Hard to Pronounce - Article - FineCooking
• How to Make Pine Rosin Potatoes
• Toxic Woods, British Journal of Dermatology
• Familial Sarcoidosis: Epidemiological Aspects with Notes on a Possible Relationship to the Chewing of Pine Pitch | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network
• Google Translate of "Untersuchungen über gesundheitsschädigende Hölzer"
• How to Make Pine Pitch
• Historical Notes on Barrel Pitching | Community | BeerAdvocate
• Brewerey u Bansethu - Review of U Bansethu, Prague, Czech Republic - Tripadvisor
• History Byte – Barrel Pitching – The Black Creek Growler
• Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Lining casks with pitch

254. Do It Yourself Pizza Oven

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using a do it yourself pizza oven from TikTok.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• The Flintstones would be so proud 😭 #fypシ #pizzastone #diy #cheaptok #pizza #camping #backyard #easydiy
• Rodrigo on TikTok
• MSDS for paving stones
• Is Concrete Toxic?

253. Scott's Ambiguously Sealed Mincemeat

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from a jar of ambiguously sealed mincemeat send from listener Scott.

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

• Scott Lougheed on Twitter: "Opened up a jar of last year’s mincemeat. Ambiguous seal. No signs of spoilage. Ate a teaspoon: Tastes good. 36hrs passed and no sign of botulism (or other illness). Risky or not @benjaminchapman and @bugcounter?" / Twitter
• Recipes | Mary Berry
• Mincemeat - Wikipedia
• National Center for Home Food Preservation | How Do I? Can Fruits
• Suet - Wikipedia
• Christmas Brandied Mince Tarts | King Arthur Baking
• Internet Goes Wild After Photo of Sqirl’s Moldy Jam Goes Viral - Eater LA

252. Taste the TV

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of licking Taste the TV.

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

• Randal Oulton on Twitter: "@bugcounter risky or not https://t.co/1wiQ8anaKR" / Twitter

• Taste the TV: Japan invents lickable screen to imitate food flavours | Japan | The Guardian

• Tasty TV: Japanese professor creates flavourful screen | Reuters

• Taste the TV: Japanese professor invents lickable TV screen | wtsp.com
• Smell-O-Vision - Wikipedia

251. Aaron's Black Eyed Peas

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating properly stored rehydrated black eye peas not boiled for 20 minutes.

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

• Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "@PulsedAlmondboy @benjaminchapman I have so many questions. It seems that these are already cooked. Why does the label recommend washing? The directions say boil uncovered for 20 minutes, but then it also says don't overcook. Boiling for 20 minutes sure seems like overcooking to me." / Twitter
• Black Eye Peas | Sunny Creek Farm
• Traditional Southern New Year's Day Menu - A Southern Soul

250. Pasta With Sauce and Turkey Left Out Overnight

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating pasta with sauce and turkey left out overnight.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Use of Time-Temperature Evaluations in Detecting the Responsible Vehicle and Contributing Factors of Foodborne Disease Outbreaks | Journal of Food Protection
• Fatal Family Outbreak of Bacillus cereus-Associated Food Poisoning

249. Bringing Frozen Unrefrigerated Peameal Bacon Across the Border

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks bringing frozen unrefrigerated peameal bacon across the Canada/US border by car.

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

• Back bacon - Wikipedia
• Peameal bacon - Wikipedia
• Can I bring meat or poultry into the United States?
• USDA APHIS | International Traveler: Meats, Poultry, and Seafood

248. Eating Raw Bacon

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

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

• Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "@mathowie @busblog Hey Matt, this is a great question. As raw meats go, bacon is pretty low risk. Based on this research done by my colleague Cathy Cutter @drkitty92 and her graduate student https://t.co/QgxuvlT5Au it looks like conventional bacon is pretty good at inhibiting pathogens." / Twitter
• Investigation of Quality Attributes and Inhibition of Foodborne Pathogens in “No-Nitrate or Nitrite-Added” Bacon
• Risk Assessment of Human Toxoplasmosis Associated with the Consumption of Pork Meat in Italy - Condoleo - 2018 - Risk Analysis - Wiley Online Library
• Myth: The Use of Celery Powder to Cure Some Meats is Misleading
• What Will Happen If You Eat Undercooked Bacon?

247. Feeding Breadcrumbs Older Than Your Kid to Your Kid

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of accidentally feeding rancid breadcrumbs to your kids.

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

• Piccata - Wikipedia
• Rancidification - Wikipedia
• Dietary advanced lipid oxidation endproducts are risk factors to human health - Kanner - 2007 - Molecular Nutrition & Food Research - Wiley Online Library
• Bread crumbs - Wikipedia
• An unusual case of anaphylaxis. Mold in pancake mix - PubMed

246. Re-Using Plastic Bags

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks re-using plastic bags.

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

• Slugore on Twitter: "@benjaminchapman @bugcounter I am wondering about your views on washing and reusing resealable plastic food storage bags. Risky or not? Worth it or not?" / Twitter