288. Really Old Soda

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking really old soda.

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

• Joe Ovies on Twitter: "1982 UNC “blue soda” 1983 NC State “red soda” @giglio_OG and I invited the possibility of poisoning by cracking open these ancient artifacts. https://t.co/qubOxCA3iQ" / Twitter
• Food safety expert, UGA professor dishes on safety tips | AccessWDUN.com
• FoodKeeper App | FoodSafety.gov
• Is buying soda with an expired date on it dangerous?

287. Rice Used to Dry Out Phone Dropped in Water

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating Rice used to dry out a phone dropped in water.

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

• bill quoted on Twitter: "@benjaminchapman @bugcounter Dropped a phone in a puddle of water and placed it in rice to dry. Risky or not to cook and eat the rice?" / Twitter
• Food Safety Talk 92: So we can't use that rice? — Food Safety Talk
• Flight of the Conchords- Business Time - YouTube
• Semisonic - Closing Time (Official Music Video) - YouTube

286. Eating in a Restaurant Built on a Graveyard

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating in a restaurant built on a graveyard.

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

• 101 Indian Street Food Dishes to Eat Before You Die - YouTube
• The New Lucky Restaurant – Ahmedabad, India - Gastro Obscura
• The New Lucky Restaurant in India Has Tables Set up Around Graves
• New Lucky Restaurant Ahmedabad Gujarat I Lucky restaurant | Times of India Travel
• Can you have a picnic in a cemetery? Historic American tradition explained
• Remembering When Americans Picnicked in Cemeteries - Gastro Obscura
• 218. Returning Food Trucks to Use After Holding COVID-19 Bodies — Risky or Not?
• Returning Refrigerated Transport Vehicles and Refrigerated Storage Units to Food Uses After Using Them to Preserve Human Remains During the COVID-19 Pandemic | FDA

285. Bringing Your Own Banana

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating a banana split from a "bring your own banana" shop.

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

• 14: Budnik's Banana — Risky or Not?
• Bruster's Ice Cream
• Survival of Listeria innocua, Salmonella salford and Escherichia coli on the surface of fruit with inedible skins - ScienceDirect
• Watch on Facebook?

284. Dog Kisses

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from getting kissed by your dog.

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

• Capnocytophaga | CDC
• Man dies after being licked by his dog and contracting rare infection | CNN
• View of Being Licked by a Dog Can Be Fatal: Capnocytophaga canimorsus Sepsis with Purpura Fulminans in an Immunocompetent Man
• Occurrence of Salmonella, Campylobacter, Clostridium and Enterobacteriaceae in raw meat‐based diets for dogs

283. Infant Formula After a Few Ants Are Removed

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from consuming liquid infant formula after a few ants are removed from the dry powder.

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

• Ants as potential vectors of pathogens in hospitals in the state of sao paulo, brazil | International Journal of Tropical Insect Science | Cambridge Core
• A study on the potential of ants to act as vectors of foodborne pathogens - PMC
• Justin on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman #riskyOrNot feeding a baby a bottle after finding and removing a few ants in the box of formula" / Twitter
• 159. Food, Once a Fly Has Landed on It — Risky or Not?

282. Sage's Steak Cookies

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making cookies with steak chips.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Sage (@SageOlson) / Twitter
• Glazed Burnt End Chocolate Chip Cookies | Beef Loving Texans
• Fate of Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, and Salmonella typhimurium during Preparation and Storage of Beef Jerky | Journal of Food Protection
• Brisket Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe - Barbecuebible.com
• Home - Texas Cottage Food Law
• From Jam to Jerky: Water Activity and the Science of Preservation

281. Unpasteurized Eggs from Neighbor

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating cooked unpasteurized eggs from your neighbor.

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

• Amazon.com: Chicken Egg Collecting Apron, 12 Deep Pockets Hen Duck Goose Eggs Holder Aprons : Home & Kitchen
• Can shell eggs be pasteurized?
• Salmonella in table eggs from farm to retail – When is cooling required? - ScienceDirect
• A better way to pasteurize eggs
• Guide to Sous Vide Eggs | The Food Lab

280. Thirty-Three Year Old Baseball Card Gum

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of chewing 33 year old baseball card gum.

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

• Patrick Byrne on Twitter: "@midniteumbrella @Topps Paging @bugcounter and @benjaminchapman. #RiskyOrNot?" / Twitter
• 188. Reused Chewing Gum — Risky or Not?
• The effect of chlorhexidine acetate/xylitol chewing gum on the plaque and gingival indices of elderly occupants in residential homes - Simons - 2001 - Journal of Clinical Periodontology - Wiley Online Library
• Chew on this: No support for facilitating effects of gum on spatial task performance - ScienceDirect
• Omya Recalls Ground Limestone for Salmonella
• 10 Most Valuable 1989 Bowman Baseball Cards - Old Sports Cards
• Chewing gum - Wikipedia

279. Letting a 20 Month Old Try Kombucha

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks letting a 20 month old try kombucha.

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

• Lee Katz 🍞 on Twitter: "@benjaminchapman @bugcounter Oops, 21 months old" / Twitter
• Lee Katz - Atlanta, Georgia, Enteric Diseases Lab, CDC, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University | about.me
• Micro binfie podcast on Apple Podcasts
• Unexplained Severe Illness Possibly Associated with Consumption of Kombucha Tea -- Iowa, 1995
• Health-Ade Kombucha | Sprouts Farmers Market
• Understanding and Making Kombucha – Food Smart Colorado
• Kombucha craze
• Understand Kombucha
• Whole Foods, Health-Ade Kombucha Class Action Settlement - Top Class Actions
• Whole Foods Removes Kombucha - Supermarket News
• Understanding and Making Kombucha – Food Smart Colorado

278. Unprocessed, Unrefrigerated Apple Butter

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming unprocessed, unrefrigerated apple butter received as a gift.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• National Center for Home Food Preservation | How Do I? Can Fruits
• Carla Schwan | UGA FACS
• Home - Texas Cottage Food Law
• Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving:
• Apple Butter Recipe - NYT Cooking

277. Chicken Taco in a Backpack for a Day and a Half

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating a chicken taco in a backpack for a day and a half.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• 270. Rice, Chicken, and Lo Mein Leftovers — Risky or Not?
• Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "@joellabes @PatrickRothfuss #Risky Pico de Gallo is not an antimicrobial!
• Cubano sandwiches with Clostridium perfringens found in Alaska investigation | Food Safety News
• Notes from the Field: Clostridium perfringens Outbreak at a Catered Lunch — Connecticut, September 2016 | MMWR
• Clostridium perfringens Foodborne Outbreak during an Athletic Event in Northern Greece, June 2019
• NC church barbecue cited as link to outbreak that sickened 300 | Fox News
• The Never-Ending Battle Against Sport’s Hidden Foe - The New York Times

276. Cold-Soaked Freeze-Dried Backpacking Food

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cold-soaking freeze-dried backpacking food for 8 hours.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• The Outer Banks | Things To Do, Hotels & Restaurants
• Mountain House Pad Thai with Chicken - 2 Servings | REI Co-op
• Cold-Soak No-Cook Backpacking Meals 101 - SectionHiker.com
• Home - Philmont Scout Ranch High Adventure- Cimarron NM
• Accidental Tech Podcast
• Reconcilable Differences - Relay FM
• “Pro Macs Triumph Black” graphic tee by Accidental Tech Podcast. | Cotton Bureau
• The microbiological quality of various foods dried by applying different drying methods: a review

275. Cooking While COVID-19 Positive

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of transmitting COVID-19 when cooking while COVID-19 positive

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

• Gabrielle Schaffner on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman here’s a #riskyornot question: COVID + person, 5 days from + test, no symptoms…risky or not to cook for family members in isolation, without a mask on? (Cooking masked is really getting old but I’m willing!)" / Twitter
• Potential for foodborne transmission Covid-19: » Meat Industry Association
• Is It Safe to Cook for Other People During Coronavirus? | Food Network Healthy Eats: Recipes, Ideas, and Food News | Food Network
• 270. Rice, Chicken, and Lo Mein Leftovers — Risky or Not?
• Food Safety and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | CDC

274. COVID-19 and Revolving Doors

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of contracting COVID-19 from walking through revolving doors.

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

• COVID-19 Quarantine and Isolation | CDC
• Computational fluid dynamics - Wikipedia
• Do revolving doors actually save energy? - Vox
• Modifying Habits Towards Sustainability: A Study of Revolving Door Usage on the Mit Campus
• Air Infiltration through revolving doors
• Linsey C. Marr | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Virginia Tech

273. Cooking With Himalayan Soup Salter on a Rope

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cooking with a Himalayan soup salter on a rope.

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

• not a bot on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman Himalayan Soup Salter: Risky or Not? I assume the salt block would be safe, but what about the rope? Dipping in stews, soups, and chili and just rinsing between uses? https://t.co/x47abYjtHV" / Twitter
• Evaluation of oral fluids for surveillance of foodborne and zoonotic pathogens in pig farms - Franziska Schott, Karolin Hoffmann, Eleonora Sarno, Patrick D. Bangerter, Roger Stephan, Gudrun Overesch, Michael Haessig, Xaver Sidler, Robert Graage, 2021

272. Thirteen Year Old Tapioca Flour

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating 13 year old tapioca flour.

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

• haroldina on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman I've got a bag of tapioca flour that's was opened back when I got it 13 years ago and stored in a ziplock bag in my pantry since then. There aren't any bugs in it and it's not clumped at all, so I expect it didn't get any moisture in it 1/2" / Twitter
• Don argues on Twitter
• An unusual case of anaphylaxis. Mold in pancake mix - PubMed

271. Salt Rising Bread

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from salt rising bread.

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

• neil chazin on Twitter: "@atlasobscura @bugcounter thoughts on this bread method?" / Twitter
• The Forgotten Baking Technique That Turns Bacteria Into Delicious, Cheesy Bread - Gastro Obscura
• Food Safety Talk 84: All the Great Journals — Food Safety Talk
• Microbiology of salt rising bread - PubMed
• Full article on Microbiology of salt rising bread
• 264. Kapchunka — Risky or Not?

270. Rice, Chicken, and Lo Mein Leftovers

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of shock, multiple organ failure, and rash after eating rice, chicken, and lo mein leftovers.

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

• Case Challenge — A 19-Year-Old Man with Shock, Multiple Organ Failure, and Rash — NEJM
• Dr. Glaucomflecken (@DGlaucomflecken) / Twitter
• Meningococcal Disease | CDC
• What a Food Safety Expert Says About Storing Leftovers After Teen's Food Poisoning-Amputation Case Goes Viral | Inside Edition
• BAM Chapter 14: Bacillus cereus | FDA

269. Cat Licked Cake

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating cake licked by a cat.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Goudy Bold Italic on Twitter: "@benjaminchapman @bugcounter @firstbornspawn Risky or not: cake that a cat has been licking. Not frosted, plain top with occasional crumb topping. (Extra credit: gross or not?) Just happened, is it rude to not want to take home leftover cake after your hosts' cat has licked it?" / Twitter
• Cats | Healthy Pets, Healthy People | CDC
• 'I’m not a cat': lawyer gets stuck on Zoom kitten filter during court case - YouTube
• Anaplasma, Ehrlichia and Rickettsia species infections in cats: European guidelines from the ABCD on prevention and management - Maria Grazia Pennisi, Regina Hofmann-Lehmann, Alan D Radford, Séverine Tasker, Sándor Belák, Diane D Addie, Corine Boucraut-Baralon, Herman Egberink, Tadeusz Frymus, Tim Gruffydd-Jones, Katrin Hartmann, Marian C Horzinek, Margaret J Hosie, Albert Lloret, Hans Lutz, Fulvio Marsilio, Etienne Thiry, Uwe Truyen, Karin Möstl, 2017
• Detection of Bartonella henselae in domestic cats' saliva