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ChatGPT image text: In a warehouse store, a smiling employee in a red apron offers food samples while a serious professor in a white lab coat studies the setup, arms crossed.

823. Costco Free Food Samples

September 12, 2025 by Don Schaffner

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from consuming Costco free food samples.

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

  • Multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections associated with in-store sampling of an aged raw-milk Gouda cheese, 2010 - PubMed
  • Are Costco Samples Safe To Eat? Here's What You Need To Know About Hygiene Practices
  • Coronavirus outbreak prompts Costco to stop serving free samples
September 12, 2025 /Don Schaffner
Costco, Food samples, Allergy, Time temperature control for safety food

DALL·E - a giant meatball next to a mammoth in the style of Bill Watterson

454. Mammoth Meatballs

May 05, 2023 by Don Schaffner

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating meatballs made using mammoth (and elephant) DNA.

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

  • Company Serves World's First 'Mammoth' Meatball, But Nobody Is Allowed to Eat It : ScienceAlert
  • Why Are Some Proteins Allergens? | Toxicological Sciences | Oxford Academic
  • Current Understanding of Food Allergens - LEHRER - 2002 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - Wiley Online Library
  • FDA says tara flour was likely behind illnesses tied to Daily Harvest crumbles | Food Safety News
  • Ethnozoology of bushmeat
  • Botswana has 'significant elephant-poaching problem,' conservation group says
May 05, 2023 /Don Schaffner
Allergy, Mammoth, Elephant

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