627. Drinking a Cocktail Using Ice From a Core Sample From Your Birth Year

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking a cocktail using ice from a core sample from your birth year.

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

• xkcd: Ice Core
• bioRxiv.org - the preprint server for Biology
• Camellia sinensis - Wikipedia
• Diversity and association of psychrophilic bacteria in Antarctic sea ice | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Professor Thomas McMeekin AO | Australian of the Year
• About Ice Cores | NSF Ice Core Facility
• Human and Environmental Impacts of Volcanic Ash

575. Ice Stored Under Factory Packaged Frozen Raw Ground Beef

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming ice stored under factory package frozen raw ground beef.

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

• 80% Lean Ground Beef | ALDI US
• Thermal Expansion and Density | EARTH 111: Water: Science and Society
• Prevalence of Campylobacter, Salmonella, and Escherichia coli on the External Packaging of Raw Meat - ScienceDirect

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)

245. Licking an Ice Sculpture

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of licking an ice sculpture.

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

• Veronica Bryant (@NoroNerd) / Twitter
• Mary Kathrynn (@marydidyaknow) / Twitter
• Microbiological quality of ice used to refrigerate foods - ScienceDirect
• Ice as a vehicle for diarrheagenic Escherichia coli - ScienceDirect
• Ice sculpture - Wikipedia
• Multi-pathogen waterborne disease outbreak associated with a dinner cruise on Lake Michigan - PubMed
• Detection of Norovirus in Saliva Samples from Acute Gastroenteritis Cases and Asymptomatic Subjects: Association with Age and Higher Shedding in Stool - PubMed

From David W. Tharp, Executive Director, International Association for Food Protection: I'm not sure when this "tradition" began, but I'm fairly certain that there was an ice sculpture at my first meeting in 1993. From memory, Charlie Felix was the liaison to the Packaged Ice Association (now International Packaged Ice Association). Charlie worked from 1966 to 1985 for the Foodservice and Packaging Institute (per his LinkedIn profile). He became a publisher and consultant after 1985 and was active in IAFP through 2012.