Don't Eat Poop! A Food Safety Podcast

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.Time to lawyer up, food safety enthusiasts!Bill Marler is the world's leading foodborne illness attorney. Starting with a landmark $15.6 million settlement from Jack in the Box following their infamous 1992-1993 e. Coli outbreak, Marler has leapt from success to success, delivering accountability to food companies that fail to protect the health of their customers.In this week's episode, the most feared man in food talks to Francine and Matt about getting the F out of the FDA, the importance of food safety culture, why he voluntarily spends time trying to put himself out of a job, and whether he feels like the monster some consider him to be.Not to be missed.We hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed!

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.When Bill Marler means business, he means BUSINESS. The legendary, fearsome food safety attorney - scourge of every negligent food service business - has made an offer that can't be refused: He will provide consultation to any company that wishes to mandate the Hepatitis A vaccine for its employees for the low price of $1. This will make them immune to being sued by him in the future. Talk about a power play!The Hepatitis A vaccine prevents contamination by food service workers and saves lives, but is not yet required.Food Safety Awareness: food poisoning... should you blame the last thing you ate?We hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed! Article mentioned:https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/06/offer-hepatitis-a-vaccines-an-off-you-cant-refuse/

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.The real issue at play? A lack of food safety awareness and responsible food practices. Not to say basic knowledge of food safety regulations.It turns out that coming to work sick is a bad idea. More than 40% of restaurant foodborne illness outbreaks are caused by employees showing up to work sick. Many restaurants and other food service facilities lack official policies outlining the specific symptoms that require employees to stay home. Food Safety Humor: Matt and Francine discuss "food filth," which is every bit as appetizing as it sounds!We hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed!

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.Selling your poop: it's the American Dream!Unfortunately, it's out of reach for most Americans. But if you are one of the rare few who is in great shape, eats well and has an excellent gut micro-biome, making your stool ideal for fecal transplants, you too can be rolling in it...Money. We mean money.This week, Matt and Francine discuss the side hustle that might be both the best - and crappiest - of them all.ALSO: Raw milk... Could it improve your health AND your relationship with your mother? Listen and find out!We hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed! Francine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francinelshaw/Matt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattregusci/

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.The food we eat is safe... after all, it's been certified, right? As food safety specialists with many years of experience in the food safety industry, Matt and Francine know that things are not always on the up and up. Today's main topic: food certification fraud. What happens when a company wants to move a bunch of inventory without going through the agonizing burden of actually getting it certified? Do the good people of the food industry all turn their backs on these shenanigans... or does a bidding war commence?Food Safety Humor: is it OK to sell Walmart pizzas, microwaved in your own oven, on DoorDash? Risky business or top-shelf entrepreneurialism?We hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed!

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.Dr Darin Detwiler is a prominent food safety consumer advocate with more than just academic credentials. Recorded at the Food Safety Summit in Chicago, Dr Detwiler joins Matt and Francine to discuss his painful, personal food safety history, the difference between "believing in" and valuing food safety, and his involvement in the upcoming Netflix documentary "Poisoned." We hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed!

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.If you love chickens, listen up... This week's episode is about chickens and the avian flu viruses that love (to infect) them!With avian flu concerns on the rise, what are the implications of mass-vaccinating chickens destined for your plate? Join Matt and Francine for a discussion on this and other fowl topics... or are you too chicken?!We hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed!

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.Who doesn't love burgers?!They're as American as you get. But in 1993, the fast food burger chain Jack in the Box had a massive E. coli outbreak that affected hundreds, killed four children, and ended with the company paying out about $98 million, with one victim receiving $15.6 million. It's also the subject of the upcoming Netflix documentary, Poisoned...And of this week's episode of Don't Eat Poop! Francine and Matt discuss the seminal event that created the modern food safety industry, including its after-effects and implications on their own careers in food safety.We hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you think of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed!

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.There's a war between chocolate and cannabis - and the green stuff has THROWN DOWN!That's right, sales of legal cannabis are OUTSTRIPPING sales of chocolate in a surreal twist of fate that reminds us of how quickly things have changed in the United States on the cannabis front.Matt and Francine try to make sense of this, while discussing the wild policy differences between states regarding cannabis, liquor sales and more.Also discussed: Starbucks' bowel-emptying new product that will be coming soon to a drive-through near you!We hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you think of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed!

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.This week, we go full C-SPAN...Frank Yiannas (former chief of the "food" side of the FDA) has testified on Capitol Hill about the bacterial contamination at a Michigan plant that led to a baby formula shortage last February.Babies, we hope it doesn't need to be said, should not be getting sick from drinking formula.Yiannas agrees, and his no-holds-barred testimony took industry and government alike to task for allowing this to happen and pointing toward reforms to be implemented to avoid a repeat.Join Matt and Francine for commentary on Yiannas's testimony, musings on the issues it raises, and no shortage of jokes. Because that's simply how they roll.Relevant links:https://www.c-span.org/video/?520583-1/fda-commissioner-testifies-baby-formula-shortage https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Yiannas-Testimony_-House-Subcomm_March-27-2023.pdf https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/02/baby-formula-recalled-over-concerns-of-cronobacter-contamination/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/03/20/gerber-infant-formula-recall-cronobacter-concern/11507913002/ https://www.fda.gov/media/77065/download https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-10-26/new-tiktok-trend-of-mouth-taping-during-sleep-carries-dangersWe hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed!

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.Usually, we like to bring some food safety humor to our episodes to educate while having a good laugh, but there's nothing funny about food insecurity. What is food insecurity? How many people in America face it? What are the causes? And what can be done? Listen and find out!Also, on a much funnier note, this week we discuss "sleepy chicken," the bizarre TikTok food trend!Articles mentioned: https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/food-insecurity https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db432.htm https://thebarbecuelab.com/hunger-in-america/ https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america?s_src=Y23XG3H1Y&s_subsrc=c&s_keyword=hunger%20stats&gclid=CjwKCAjw586hBhBrEiwAQYEnHT4Faw31gUKQv2FjPG7zVZnJNGQTxNBPe7v_FmqD0Mg9ld0OprAyeRoCEkgQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds https://www.fns.usda.gov/wicWe hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed!

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.Are you eating foods from the "Dirty Dozen?"Every year the Environmental Working Group releases its "Dirty Dozen" list of the twelve produce items with the most pesticide residue. Spoiler alert: they're probably all in your fridge.But is this list as meaningful as it sounds? Are pesticides as scary as you think? And does "organic" mean what you've been led to believe? Let's share some food safety awareness and align it with responsible food practices, shall we?Food Safety News: uh oh, a hepatitis outbreak in frozen strawberries! And making grilled cheese sandwiches in your toaster oven... a good idea? (DISCLAIMER: No, it is a terrible idea, DO NOT BURN DOWN YOUR HOME)Articles mentioned:https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/03/letter-to-the-editor-dirty-dozen-requires-a-second-look/ https://www.seattletimes.com/life/wellness/why-the-dirty-dozen-produce-list-is-misguided/ https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/03/environmental-working-group-unveils-its-dirty-dozen-clean-15-for-2023/ https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/10/27/organic-101-allowed-and-prohibited-substances https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/03/22/organic-101-what-usda-organic-label-means https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/organic-food-labels We hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed!

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.Food safety starts at home. Let's bring food safety systems, awareness, and responsible food practices to our own kitchens. Except when we're talking about dialects, what Matt's kids call him, and whether reusable bags are actually environmentally friendly, that is.And as a bonus, Matt and Francine take on the TikTok trend of "healthy coke"... is it all it's cracked up to be? Listen and find out!Articles mentioned:https://www.fightbac.org/ https://www.tiktok.com/@mandyvjones/video/7106302944194071851?embed_source=121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%3Bnull%3Bembed_fullscreen&refer=embed&referer_url=www.foodnetwork.com%2Ffn-dish%2Fnews%2Ftiktok-healthy-coke&referer_video_id=7106302944194071851We hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed!

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.Don't Eat Poop is back to discuss everyone's favorite topic... Bureaucracy!No? Well, we promise it's interesting.Should the FDA split into two agencies, one overseeing drugs and one food? Should cannabis fall under yet another agency? Francine and Matt have thoughts. Also, did you know that states (and even counties) have their own rules when it comes to food safety regulations? Food safety humor: the TikTok trend of sticking garlic up your nose to clear your sinuses. Listen to the podcast for more detail and some good laughs... But let's get this out of the way: NOT a great idea!Articles mentioned:https://www.foodsafetynews.com/tag/get-the-f-out-of-the-fda/ https://www.foodpolitics.com/2023/03/bill-marlers-new-campaign-get-the-f-out-of-the-fda/ https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/press-releases/chipotle-mexican-grill-agrees-pay-25-million-fine-resolve-charges-stemming-more-1100-cases-foodborne#:~:text=In%20December%202015%2C%20over%20the,clear%20violation%20of%20company%20policy. https://www.fda.gov/food/fda-food-code/adoption-fda-food-code-state-and-territorial-agencies-responsible-oversight-restaurants-and-retail https://www.fda.gov/food/fda-food-code/food-code-2022 https://www.health.com/condition/sinus-disorders/garlic-in-nose-clear-sinusWe'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed!

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.There's no rest for the food safety industry... In the news (and on the discussion menu this week) is the Blue Bell Creameries' retired former CEO, who has reached a plea deal in the federal trial stemming from a listeria outbreak in 2015 that led to three deaths. Paul Kruse was potentially facing jail time but will simply pay a $100,000 fine.The FDA has sent a letter to baby formula producers essentially asking them to please do their jobs.Also: eating oranges in the shower... life-changing or potentially life-threatening? Some of the usual food safety humor to wrap up the episode. Articles mentioned:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/17/the-souths-beloved-blue-bell-ice-cream-is-finally-getting-good-news/ https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/03/plea-deal-frees-retired-blue-bell-president-from-jail-time-or-another-jury-trial/Other links from the episode: Darin Detwiler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darin-detwiler/ Hygiene kits:https://www.gojo.com/en/Industries/Foodservice/Hand-Hygiene-Hub/Body-Fluid-Spill-Kits https://www.gojo.com/en/Industries/Education-K12/K-12-Spill-Kit https://www.gojo.com/en/Industries/Foodservice/Foodservice-Spill-KitWe hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed! Produced by Joe Diaco Podcasting Support

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.Francine and Matt have lots to talk about, as always. Discussed this week: Best By/Sell By/Expiration dates demystified.A discussion of refrigerator design (the good and the bad)A new study indicating that a scary percentage of medical gloves have traces of poop on themBusting the myth that cross-contamination can't happen at home (IT CAN)We hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed! Articles mentioned:https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/131048000/study-finds-half-of-new-disposable-gloves-carry-microbes-from-poohttps://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/ten-dangerous-mistakes.html

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.This week, Francine and Matt pay tribute to a food safety titan: FDA's Frank Yiannis.Also discussed: multiple Family Dollar store closures due to extreme rat infestations. This prompts Francine to share another nightmare-fuel story from her past as a food service health inspector.Finally, your hosting duo debates the five-second rule: is it legit, or should you quit?Food safety awareness meets food safety humor in this episode. We hope you enjoy it!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed! Articles mentioned:https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/01/dollar-tree-warned-because-of-rodent-infestation-and-conditions-in-distribution-center/https://superscience.scholastic.com/issues/2016-17/050117/testing-the-five-second-rule.html#840L

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere.👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates.It's the inaugural episode!In this episode, hosts Francine and Matt dive into the latest updates and news from the food service industry. Exciting news unfolds as they discuss Subway's recent announcement of being up for sale. They also shed light on a concerning issue, the FDA's investigation into a listeria outbreak with an unknown source.Drawing from her experience as a health inspector, Francine shares captivating war stories that give a unique perspective on the importance of food systems and maintaining food safety standards. Additionally, our hosts dispel a food safety myth, ensuring listeners are well-informed.Tune in for an insightful discussion that emphasizes responsible food practices, the significance of food safety, and its impact on both the business and consumer sides of the industry.We hope you enjoy this episode!Be sure to subscribe to Don't Eat Poop on your favorite podcast app, leave a review and share the podcast with your friends!We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed! Articles mentioned:https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2022/11/15/subway-sandwiches-vending-machines-ai/10705236002/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/11/expiration-dates-food-waste-safety/672311/ (THERE IS SO MUCH WRONG WITH THIS ONE)

Welcome to Don't Eat Poop!Join food safety specialists Francine L. Shaw (CEO and Founder, Savvy Food Safety) and Matthew Regusci (Founder, Fostering Compliance) and occasional guests as they dish about all things food safety: industry trends, news, recurring frustrations and more. Learn everything you've ever wanted to know about the food supply chain, but were too afraid to ask - plus a lot you never wanted to know and will regret learning! Funny, fresh takes on a (potentially deadly!) serious topic. New episodes served up on Tuesdays.We'd love to hear from you!Follow Francine, Matt and the show on LinkedIn and let us know what you thought of the show. Also feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear discussed!