121. Greasy Grills
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from greasy grills.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
120. A Dog Licking Your Plate
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of a dog licking your plate.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
119. COVID-19 From Hookups
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of getting COVID-19 from hookups.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
118. Potting Soil
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from potting soil.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Exposure to potting soils and compost material as potential sources of Legionella pneumophilia in Australia - ScienceDirect
- Pine Species Provide a Niche for Legionella Longbeachae
- Does Potting Mix Cause Legionnaires' Disease in Gardeners? - Garden Myths
- Legionella longbeachae and Legionellosis
- Legionnaires Disease Cause and Spread | Legionella | CDC
- Legionnaires' Disease Associated With Potting Soil --- California, Oregon, and Washington, May--June 2000
- An outbreak of Pontiac fever due to Legionella longbeachae serogroup 2 found in potting mix in a horticultural nursery in New Zealand | Epidemiology & Infection | Cambridge Core
- Popcorn Lung – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment
- Risk Factors for Legionella longbeachae Legionnaires’ Disease, New Zealand
117. Keeping Water at Human Body Temperature for Hours
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of keeping water at human body temperature for hours.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Laryssa Patti on Twitter
- Baby Brezza® Instant Electric 3-Temperature Bottle Warmer in White | buybuy BABY
- Quantifying the Influence of Relative Humidity, Temperature, and Diluent on the Survival and Growth of Enterobacter aerogenes | Journal of Food Protection
- Overview of a Risk Assessment Model for Enterobacter sakazakii in Powdered Infant Formula
- Baby Brezza Instructions for Set-Up, Use and Cleaning
- Questions & Answers for Consumers Concerning Infant Formula | FDA
- Infant formula: 7 steps to prepare it safely - Mayo Clinic
- Infant Formula Preparation and Storage | Nutrition | CDC
116. Putting Plates Away Wet
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risk of putting plates away wet.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Surface Sanitation and Microbiological Food Quality of a University Foodservice Operation
- CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21
- https://www.fda.gov/media/110822/download
- Cutting Boards of Plastic and Wood Contaminated Experimentally with Bacteria | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press
- Kitchen equipment needed to prepare food safely | UMN Extension
- Dish Washing Cleaning Tips - Things to Avoid | Kitchn
- Wash Rinse Sanitize Poster
- Champaign Urbana Public Health District
115. Cats in the Kitchen
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cats in the kitchen (and the silver spoon).
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Cat's in the Cradle - Wikipedia
- Sources of toxoplasma infection in pregnant women: European multicentre case-control studyCommentary: Congenital toxoplasmosis—further thought for food | The BMJ
- Risk factors for acute toxoplasmosis in England and Wales | Epidemiology & Infection | Cambridge Core
- Ranking the Risks: The 10 Pathogen-Food Combinations With the Greatest Burden on Public Health
- Occurrence of Campylobacter jejuni in Pets Living with Human Patients Infected with C. jejuni
- The Public Health Laboratory Service national case-control study of primary indigenous sporadic cases of campylobacter infection.
114. Water Cooled Beverages
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from drinking beverages cooled natural water sources.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
113. Eating Snow
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating snow.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Is eating snow dangerous? | AccuWeather
- Snowflakes Aren’t Innocent and Fluffy—They’re Bacteria Bombs from the Sky | Discover Magazine
- Southern Snow Cream Recipe - Food.com
- Diversity and association of psychrophilic bacteria in Antarctic sea ice
- Converting rain into drinking water: quality issues and technological advances | Water Supply | IWA Publishing
- Heavy metal assessment and water quality values in urban stream and rain water | SpringerLink
112. Expired Hand Sanitizer
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using expired hand sanitizer.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
111. Snow Bank Refrigerator
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing your food in a snow bank.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Michelle Jewell on Twitter: "@ChillOutACE_ @benjaminchapman @bugcounter Risky or not??" / Twitter
- Haddie Cooke on Twitter: "No power since 2am Monday, ~52° inside, 8° outside, cooked a few meals in the fireplace, no hot water, firewood getting low, all fridge/freezer food outside in the half foot of snow! This is INSANE!! Lots of layers, hats, socks, and blankets! 🥶 https://t.co/EMkk1ZOZaQ" / Twitter
- CFP Emergency Action Plan for Retail Food Establishments
110. Counter Top Nachos
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating counter top nachos.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
109. Uncooked Frozen Carrots*
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating uncooked frozen carrots*.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 *
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- El Chico Mexican Restaurant Relish | SPCrahan | Copy Me That
- Recall & Advice to Consumers and Retailers Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Frozen Vegetables | Listeria | CDC
- Alternative approaches to the risk management of Listeria monocytogenes in low risk foods
- Listeria monocytogenes survival in refrigerator dill pickles - PubMed
108. Parking Lot Tamales
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating parking lot tamales.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Emily Coleman on Twitter: "There was a woman in the Walmart parking lot selling tamales and I bought them and Abi said, "Did you really just do that?" And I told her that when a woman offers you tamales in a parking lot, you just do it."
- Knowledge and Practices of Meat Safety by Meat Sellers in the Tamale Metropolis of Ghana
- Tamale - Wikipedia
- Every Single Thing You Need to Know About Mexican Street Food - Eater
107. Slapping a Chicken to Cook It
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of slapping your chicken.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "The simulation shows lots of bits of blue flying away, so I'm going to assume that is 63°F chicken flying around your kitchen
- Matt’s Newsletter
- Full article: A review on underwater shockwave processing and its application in food technology
- Physics Major Calculates How Hard You Have To Slap Chicken To Cook It And People React With Hilarious Memes | Bored Panda
106. Sharing Dessert
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of sharing dessert on Valentines (or any other) Day
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Is Double-Dipping a Food Safety Problem or Just a Nasty Habit? - Scientific American
- Effect of Biting Before Dipping (Double‐Dipping) Chips on the Bacterial Population of the Dipping Solution
- Woman Who Licked Blue Bell Ice Cream Tub And Put It Back Could Face Charges : NPR
- Emerging role of bacteria in oral carcinogenesis: a review with special reference to perio-pathogenic bacteria
- Saliva and viral infections
- Detection of Norovirus in Saliva Samples from Acute Gastroenteritis Cases and Asymptomatic Subjects: Association with Age and Higher Shedding in Stool - PubMed
105. Week Old Room Temperature Bacon
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating week old room temperature bacon.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Evaluating Microbial Safety of Slow Partial-Cooking Processes for Bacon: Use of a Predictive Tool Based on Small-Scale Isothermal Meat Inoculation Studies
- Predicting Pathogen Growth during Short-Term Temperature Abuse of Raw Pork, Beef, and Poultry Products: Use of an Isothermal-Based Predictive Tool
- Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center Cooked Bacon Fact Sheet.pdf
- US Food & Drug Administration - Job Aid: Time and Temperature Control for Safety Foods
104. Spagetti Nasal Flossing
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of flossing your nose with spagetti.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Distinguishing the dominant species of pathogen in maxillary sinusitis by sequencing DNA dataset analysis - PubMed
- Predictive Model for Growth of Bacillus cereus at Temperatures Applicable to Cooling of Cooked Pasta
- Biochemical and toxic diversity of Bacillus cereus in a pasta and meat dish associated with a food-poisoning case
- Spaghetti Nasal Flossing - YouTube
103. Sourdough Bread With Russian Starter Culture
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating sourdough bread made with starter culture ordered from Russia.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Rob Dunn | Applied Ecology | NC State University
- Safety Assessment and Probiotic Evaluation of Enterococcus Faecium YF5 Isolated from Sourdough
- Take Care when Sharing Friendship Bread
- Sourdough breads and related products | SpringerLink
- A multi-state outbreak of Salmonella serotype Thompson infection from commercially distributed bread contaminated by an ill food handler | Epidemiology & Infection
- Growth of Salmonella enterica and Staphylococcus aureus in no-knead bread dough during prolonged yeast fermentation - PubMed
102. Perpetual Stew
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating perpetual stew.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- shaney gober on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman Has this come to you guys yet? https://t.co/0DGwnhYoR7" / Twitter
- Perpetual stew. How is it safe to consume? - Quora
- Perpetual Stew: Is it good? Is it safe (compared to modern food practices)? Has anyone done it? : kingdomcome
- The Stew You Brew (and Eat) for Years: Perpetual Stew | HowStuffWorks
- Louro perpetual stew (@perpetual_stew) / Twitter
- Why You Shouldn't Be Terrified of This Never-Ending Stew | Food & Wine
- Is Medieval Perpetual Stew for You? - AleHorn - Viking Drinking Horn Vessels and Accessories