541. Unlicensed San Francisco Street Vendors

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming food (specifically hot dogs wrapped in bacon) from unlicensed San Francisco street vendors.

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

• jonathan rauch: "@bugcounter hi dr don! is this…" - SFBA.social
• lisa c: "I don't know who is running th…" - Mastodon
• Don’t let the intoxicating aroma of frying onions trick you into eating unsafe food. Protect yourself from illnesses by not buying from… | Instagram
• Negotiating Informality: Social and Economic Strategies of Latino Food Vendors in San Francisco’s Mission District | Participatory Urbanisms

540. Cold Water Turkey Thawing

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of the USDA recommended cold water turkey thawing method.

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

• turkey - Risky or Not?
• thawing - Risky or Not?
• Turkey Basics: Safe Thawing | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• Is it true thawing a turkey on the counter will make you sick? - The Washington Post
• Prevalence of Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli on the Surfaces of Raw Poultry Packages - ScienceDirect
• How is heat transferred when frozen meat is thawed by putting the container in a tub of cold water? | Homework.Study.com
• Fluid dynamics and heat transfer in cold water thawing - ScienceDirect
• Heat transfer - Wikipedia

539. Using Tattler Reusable Plastic Canning Lids

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using tattler reusable plastic canning lids for home canning.

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

• 43 Folders | Time, Attention, and Creative Work
• The Guy Who Invented Inbox Zero Says We're All Doing It Wrong | Inc.com
• Bob Barker - Wikipedia
• Whose Line: If You Know What I Mean Compilation - Part 1 - YouTube
• Tattler Reusable Canning Lids – Tattler Lids
• Information – Tattler Lids
• National Center for Home Food Preservation | How Do I? Can
• The Band - Wikipedia

538. Bacteria in Fast-Food Soda Fountains

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of bacteria in fast-food soda fountains

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

• Salmonella, E-coli found in fast food soda fountain drinking water
• Microbial contamination analysis of drinking water from bulk dispensers and fast-food restaurants in the Eastern Coachella Valley, California | Water Supply | IWA Publishing
• Repeated detection of microbes in beverages dispensed from soda fountain machines and the effect of flushing on microbial density - ScienceDirect
• Surface Sanitation and Microbiological Food Quality of a University Foodservice Operation
• https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=e279d59f294da52a1fdecd2a74627bdb2bb5b477
• Statistical Distributions Describing Microbial Quality of Surfaces and Foods in Food Service Operations - ScienceDirect

537. Shopping in the Produce Section of a Store Where Someone Has Brought Their Pet Turtle

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks shopping in the produce section of a store where someone has brought their pet turtle.

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

• Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Small Turtles | CDC
• Veterinary Sciences | Free Full-Text | A Review of the Public Health Challenges of Salmonella and Turtles
• Salmonella excretion by turtles. - PMC
• Prevalence of Campylobacter, Salmonella, and Escherichia coli on the External Packaging of Raw Meat - ScienceDirect
• Prevalence of Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli on the Surfaces of Raw Poultry Packages - ScienceDirect
• Enumeration of Campylobacter and Salmonella on chicken packs | Emerald Insight
• Incidence of Campylobacter and Salmonella isolated from retail chicken and associated packaging in South Wales | Letters in Applied Microbiology | Oxford Academic
• Contamination by Meat Juice When Shopping for Packages of Raw Poultry - ScienceDirect

536. Tajarin Dalla Forma

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks posed by Tajarin Dalla Forma as prepared by at Casa Bovina in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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

• French Chef makes Pasta from Giant Cheese Wheel on Paris Street #shorts #paris #pasta - YouTube
• The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 388, With Christina Warren
• Video from Casa Bovina on Facebook
• Paper Hand Towels: C-Fold vs. Multifold vs. Singlefold
• Consensus categorization of cheese based on water activity and pH—A rational approach to systemizing cheese diversity - ScienceDirect
• The Producers (1967 film) - Wikipedia

535. Adults Eating at Picnic Tables With a Little Bit of Dried Bird Poop

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks to adults eating at picnic tables with a little bit dried bird poop.

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

• Abundance, diet and Salmonella contamination of gulls feeding at sewage outfalls - ScienceDirect
• Can domestic pigeon be a potential carrier of zoonotic Salmonella? - PMC
• Survival of Salmonella in Various Wild Animal Feces That May Contaminate Produce - ScienceDirect

534. Getting Your Food Safety Advice From (Our) Podcasts

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of getting food safety advice from their podcasts, in light of a long standing error.

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

• The Psychedelic Sixties: Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters
• Your Ultimate Convenience Store for Food, Drink, Fuel, and More | Wawa
• Home - Buc-ees
• Risk Assessment for Salmonella Enteritidis in Eggs and Egg Products | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• Production Module: Risk Assessment for Salmonella Enteritidis in Eggs and Egg Products
• Ad Hoc Group on Eggs, An update on the microbiological risk from shell eggs and their products - Advises the Food Standards Agency (UK) on the Microbiological Safety of Food

533. Using the Kitchen Sink to Wash Your Bathroom Hands

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using the kitchen sink to wash your hands after pooping in the bathroom.

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

• Observational Study of the Impact of a Food Safety Intervention on Consumer Poultry Washing - PubMed
• Reduction of faecal coliform, coliform and heterotrophic plate count bacteria in the household kitchen and bathroom by disinfection with hypochlorite cleaners | Journal of Applied Microbiology | Oxford Academic

532. Eating Raman Noodles Straight From the Package

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating Ramen noodles straight from the package without exposing to boiling water first.

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

• Crunchy Ramen Noodle Salad - The Defined Dish - Recipes
• Quality and Public Health Concerns of Instant Noodles as Influenced by Raw Materials and Processing Technology: Food Reviews International: Vol 36, No 3
• 99. Drinking Soda Through Raw Pasta Straw — Risky or Not?
• How to eat Ramen like a boss : r/comics

531. Hot Dog Bun Printed With the Expiration Date

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating a hotdog bun that has been printed with the expiration date on the bun instead of the package.

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

• Mistadobalina - Wikipedia
• Who Was Mistadobalina, Mista Bob Dobalina, Anyway?
• The Use of Printing Inks for Food Packaging in the United States | 2021-02-26 | Food Safety
• Health Risks of Newspaper Ink when Used as Food Packaging Material
• HEALTH HAZARD EVALUATION DETERMINATION Report No. 77-69-522
• Hazard prioritisation of substances in printing inks and adhesives applied to plastic food packaging - PubMed
• Hazard prioritisation of substances in printing inks and adhesives applied to plastic food packaging: Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A: Vol 38, No 9
• Contamination of food with newspaper ink: An evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) case study of homemade dessert

530. Foodservice Red Bucket

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks posed by the use of the red sanitizer bucket in food service.

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

• GOJO, maker of Purell, laying off staff; no longer for sale
• Is It Time to Change How We Clean and Sanitize Food Contact Surfaces with Reusable Wiping Towels? | Food Safety.)
• Chicopee 8507 Chix Competitive 11 1/2" x 24" Pink Foodservice Wet Wiper - 200/Case
• Characterizing Microbial Cross-Contamination on Large Surfaces Using a Traditional “Cloth and Bucket” Disinfection Method - International Association for Food Protection
• ‎Characterizing Microbial Cross-Contamination on Large Surfaces Using a Traditional “Cloth and Bucket” Disinfection Method
• Allergen Removal and Transfer with Wiping and Cleaning Methods Used in Retail and Food Service Establishments - PubMed
• PURELL Surface Disinfecting & Sanitizing: No Harsh Chemicals

529. Ben's Random Biker Mushroom Advice

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks posed by taking advice from a random stranger who rides past you on a bike trail and recommends that you eat a mushroom.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Foraging for "Gourmet Food That's Lying Around for Free" Alongside Durham’s Fungi Devotees - INDY Week
• Why There Are No Old Bold Mushroom Hunters
• With His Handy New Guide to Mushrooms, Frank Hyman Wants to Make Foraging Accessible for Everyone - INDY Week
• Champignouf

528. Richard's One Time, Eight Cat Focaccia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating focaccia made on a counter where 8 cats have walked.

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

• All The Great Shows - The Story of John Roderick
• Focaccia - Wikipedia
• Toxoplasmosis - Wikipedia
• Full article: Animal Hoarding: Beyond the Crazy Cat Lady
• Effect of High Temperature on Infectivity of Toxoplasma gondii Tissue Cysts in Pork on JSTOR
• SciELO - Brazil - Techniques for inactivating Toxoplasma gondii oocysts: a systematic review
• The global serological prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in felids during the last five decades (1967–2017): a systematic review and meta-analysis | Parasites & Vectors | Full Text
• Detection of Toxoplasma gondii-like oocysts in cat feces and estimates of the environmental oocyst burden
• A review on inactivation methods of Toxoplasma gondii in foods - PMC

527. Hawaiian Chili Pepper Water

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from Hawaiian chili pepper water.

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

• Who Needs Hot Sauce When You Have Hawaiian Chile Pepper Water?
• Hawaiian Chili Pepper Water Recipe - Chili Pepper Madness
• Authentic Hawaiian Chili Pepper Water Recipe — Snack Hawaii
• Accompaniments: Chutneys, Relishes, Pickles, Sambals, and Preserves - Kusuma Cooray - Google Books

526. Ginger Shots Made With Raw Unpeeled Ginger

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking ginger shots made with raw unpeeled ginger.

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

• Microbiological assessment of probioticated ginger‐based beverages | Emerald Insight
• Ginger Shots (Better Than Store-Bought) - Downshiftology
• Ginger Cultivation and Its Antimicrobial and Pharmacological Potentials - Google Books
• Survival of Salmonella during Drying of Fresh Ginger Root (Zingiber officinale) and Storage of Ground Ginger - ScienceDirect
• Cucumber Salad With Soy, Ginger and Garlic Recipe - NYT Cooking
• Paralysis—From Spurious Jamaica Ginger Extract -
• Triortho cresyl phosphate “Ginger Jake” disaster—United States,1930s - ScienceDirect

525. Eating Meat From a Moldy Bun

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating meat from a moldy bun

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

• Patrick Quade on X: "@benjaminchapman @bugcounter Hey guys 👋this person tossed the bun & ate the rest (we asked, an economically motivated decision). The report attracted some ire &dismay from IWP followers. #Riskyornot https://t.co/1xKKT3sJq7" / X
• Jack in the Box Make You sick? What you need to know

524. Keeping Your Toothbrush Less Than 6 Feet From Your Toilet

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from keeping your toothbrush less than 6 feet from your toilet.

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

• Pop Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Dentistry?? - Montgomery Dentistry
• toothbrush bathroom - Google Scholar
• Assessment of microbial contamination of toothbrush head: An in vitro study Karibasappa G N, Nagesh L, Sujatha B K - Indian J Dent Res
• Comparative study of bacteriological examination of daily use toothbrushes stored in the bathroom and room
• Evaluation of relationship between toothbrush keeping place and its microbial content - Repository of Research and Investigative Information
• Sheffield's Sweet Enough | Fizzy Drinks | Helpful Guides
• hum Adult Smart Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush - Colgate
• What's the Most Sanitary Way to Store Your Toothbrush? | SELF
• Use & Handling of Toothbrushes | FAQs | Infection Control | Division of Oral Health | CDC
• Draft Genome Sequence for Klebsiella michiganensis B199A, Originally Identified as Enterobacter aerogenes | Microbiology Resource Announcements
• Klebsiella michiganensis sp. nov., A New Bacterium Isolated from a Tooth Brush Holder | SpringerLink

523. Uniforms Pants With Pockets

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from uniform pants with pockets.

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

• How does Kirk say "sabotage"? - YouTube
• Food Processing Uniforms - Food Safety Clothing
• Protecting the Food Supply from Intentional Adulteration, such as Acts of Terrorism | FDA
• FMI | In Defense of Food
• Wild Wild Country - Wikipedia
• HACCP Frock, No Pocket, Knit Cuff, White

522. Paw Print Sugar Cookies Made With an Actual Dog Paw

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating paw print sugar cookies made with an actual dog paw.

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

• Cut Out Cookies Recipe - Paw Prints For A Fundraiser
• Thumbprint Cookies - Sugar Spun Run
• I can't wait for the office potluck! People always ask me how I make the paw print sugar cookies so perfect! - iFunny