Risky or Not?

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating food from rodent gnawed packages. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Gnawed food packets for sale and active rodent infestations triggers closure of businesses and restaurants Mice infestations close sushi restaurant and Asian food market How do Rodents Play Role in Transmission of Foodborne Diseases? Rule of thumb - Wikipedia List of Predatory Publishers | Stop Predatory Journals

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making and shipping room temperature fermented hot sauce. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Kimchi Handout Colorado State Frank's RedHot

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of Using inversion method for jams and jellies. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Ben Stanfield on Twitter: Jam canning advice from one of the year's top cookbooks and a celebrated chef. Risky or not? https://t.co/BXSp5nS6TY" / Twitter Baking at the 20th Century Cafe: Iconic European Desserts from Linzer Torte to Honey Cake: Polzine, Michelle: 9781579658984: Amazon.com: Books National Center for Home Food Preservation | How Do I? Jam and Jelly Judging Home Preserved Foods Inversion Canning - Healthy Canning Food Safety Talk 217: Fruit Forward — Food Safety Talk Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving Food Preservation Competition

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of refrigerating unopened canned food. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Ocean Spray® Jellied Cranberry Sauce | Ocean Spray Lyme disease - Wikipedia Phytophotodermatitis - Wikipedia Cranberries: Best Food for Lyme, an Ulcer, Cancer and Brain | Psychology Today

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating roadkill. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 The Jungle - Wikipedia FSIS Veterinary Opportunities Transmission | Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) | CDC Proper Processing of Wild Game and Fish - Food Safety - Home Food Safety - Food Safety and Quality Occurrence | Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) | Prion Disease | CDC Armadillos and leprosy: from infection to biological model

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from automatic dishwasher seals. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 The dishwasher rubber seal acts as a reservoir of bacteria in the home environment - PubMed Dishwashers–a man-made ecological niche accommodating human opportunistic fungal pathogens - PubMed Dishwashers are a major source of human opportunistic yeast-like fungi in indoor environments in Mersin, Turkey: Medical Mycology: Vol 51, No 5 A method to evaluate factors influencing the microbial reduction in domestic dishwashers - Brands - 2020 - Journal of Applied Microbiology - Wiley Online Library

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using public bathroom mouthwash. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Tom Joad on Twitter: "@benjaminchapman @bugcounter Is this normal? And….why? Why? https://t.co/gTEeR7Vwxx" / Twitter GotFreshBreath Mouthwash Dispenser All Products | GotFreshBreath Manual Mouthwash Dispenser Installation Guide | GotFreshBreath Biotene - Wikipedia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from ordering and eating mail order meat. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 David Sinclair on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman Obviously this is not safe, but I'd be curious about your thoughts on mail order meat generally: ☢️ risky or 👍 not?" / Twitter Prevalence of Pathogens and Indicators in Foods Ordered From Online Vendors Food Safety Challenges in the Modern Food Delivery World by Donald Schaffner – In Defense of Processed Food ‎Online Purveyors of Raw Meat, Poultry, and Seafood Products: Delivery Policies and Available Consumer Food Safety Information Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections associated with nonintact blade-tenderized frozen steaks sold by door-to-door vendors - PubMed

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating 27 lbs of unrefrigerated feta cheese. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Athenos Natural, Feta Cheese - 9 lb, Nutrition Information | Innit Microbiological quality of white‐brined cheeses: a review - Bintsis - 2002 - International Journal of Dairy Technology - Wiley Online Library Storage Temperatures Necessary to Maintain Cheese Safety - International Association for Food Protection https://www.foodprotection.org/members/fpt-archive-articles/2006-10storage-temperatures-necessary-to-maintain-cheese-safety/ https://www.henningscheese.com/pdf/storage_temperatures_necessary_to_maintain_cheese_safety.pdf

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of thawing poultry at room temperature. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 (18) Savana on Twitter: "@VectorSciNikki @benjaminchapman @bugcounter You guys can probably explain more eloquently than I can" / Twitter (18) Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "Room temperature thawing of frozen meat is an interesting topic that comes up from time to time. If you check all of the food safety advice websites they will tell you that it is not safe to do this. (1/18)" / Twitter Staphylococcus aureus - Wikipedia Home

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of doing a "shoey". Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 The shoey: Why it's a bad idea to copy Daniel Ricciardo's F1 podium ritual - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using aseptic chicken broth on the counter for 2 days. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 (18) Glass Half Empty on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman Help! I just discovered that I left an open Tetra Pak box of chicken broth on the counter for 2 days. Smells okay. Is it risky to use it or not? https://t.co/tiCODvC33p" / Twitter The Effects of Heat Activation on Bacillus Spore Germination, with Nutrients or under High Pressure, with or without Various Germination Proteins | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating cannibal or tiger meat sandwiches. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ (18) fedsoc sucks on Twitter: "Steak tartare but make it fucking stupid" / Twitter Cannibal Sandwiches: A Polarizing And Misunderstood Wisconsin Tradition | Wisconsin Public Radio Notes from the Field: Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreak Associated with Seasonal Consumption of Raw Ground Beef — Wisconsin, December 2012–January 2013 Welcome to CDC stacks | Outbreak of Salmonella Serotype Typhimurium Infection Associated with Eating Raw Ground Beef – Wisconsin, 1994

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of peeling cementines with your teeth. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Quantification of Transfer of Salmonella from Citrus Fruits to Peel, Edible Portion, and Gloved Hands during Hand Peeling | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press Coliforms, Escherichia coli and Salmonella Serovars Associated with a Citrus-Processing Facility Implicated in a Salmonellosis Outbreak | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of shipping pumpkin pie cross country. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Julie Weiss on Twitter: Love your show!!!Shipping a homemade frozen pumpkin pie cross-country overnight. Evaluation and Definition of Potentially Hazardous Foods Turns out it was Tiff, not Marco, Don regrets mis-speaking Nick Fragedakis - Program Director and Acidified Foods Process Authority Growth of Salmonella typhimurium and Staphylococcus aureus in Retail Pumpkin Pies1 | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press The Complex Underworld of Lost Baggage Delivery - Underunderstood

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating very old canned soup. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 (3) John Wyatt on Twitter: "@TorontoStar @parkdalefoodbnk @bugcounter @benjaminchapman - Risky or not?" / Twitter 'I'm just hungry.' Toronto man vows to eat 14-year-old can of soup in hopes of raising $10,000 for local food bank | The Star Donate Now - Parkdale Community Food Bank Can infant formula and baby food be used after the date expires? Food Product Dating Cuff The Duke - Confessions From A Parkdale Basement (Official Audio) - YouTube Parkdale Community Food Bank on Instagram: "Hey guys, @liborio_verne here. I am eternally grateful for your support and enthusiasm out of what was essentially a joke. Together, we…" Food Safety Talk 196: Superintendent of Judges Parkdale, Toronto - Wikipedia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risk of rinsing (not washing) your Sodastream bottles between uses. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 SodaStream Bottle Cleaning Tips - Sodastream Zylinder selbst nachfüllen An overview of microorganisms and factors contributing for the microbial stability of carbonated soft drinks - ScienceDirect Surface Sanitation and Microbiological Food Quality of a University Foodservice Operation - Buckalew - 1996 - Foodservice Research International - Wiley Online Library

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing homemade garlic confit in your refrigerator for months. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Confit | Definition of Confit by Oxford Dictionary on Lexico.com also meaning of Confit Confit - Wikipedia Justin Modugno on Twitter: "@bugcounter risky or not? https://t.co/7ShznsGBOi" / Twitter Garlic-in-oil associated botulism: episode leads to product modification. | AJPH | Vol. 80 Issue 11 Current Food Safety Issues of Home-prepared Vegetables and Herbs Stored in Oil Home Storage Temperatures and Consumer Handling of Refrigerated Foods in Sweden | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press ‎Garlic: Safe Methods to Store, Preserve, and Enjoy

Dr. Don - not risky 👍 Professor Ben - not risky 👍 Welcome to FoodCoVNET | NC State Extension Potential for foodborne transmission Covid-19: » Meat Industry Association (3) Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "Hey folks, @LexFri asks a great question. Turning This Car Around

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating every dry aged meat. Dr. Don - not risky 👍 Professor Ben - not risky 👍 I Dry Aged EVERY Meat, ATE them and this happened! - YouTube Fortunate Son | Do By Friday UMAi Dry Ribeye Striploin Premium Dry Age Bags for Meat | Dry Aging Meat Kit for Refrigerator | Simple at Home Method | Packet Includes 3 UMAi Dry Bags Sized for Ribeye and Striploin Steaks: Home Improvement Survival of Salmonella on cuts of beef carcasses subjected to dry aging - Knudsen - 2011 - Journal of Applied Microbiology - Wiley Online Library Survey of Antimicrobial Effects of Beef Carcass Intervention Treatments in Very Small State‐Inspected Slaughter Plants - Algino - 2007 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library 34: Thawing Frozen Fish in Vacuum Packed Bag — Risky or Not?

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating restaurant baked potato skins. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Large Outbreak of Botulism: The Hazardous Baked Potato | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic Gritty (mascot) - Wikipedia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming canned whipped cream 14 months past it's best by date. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Eric B on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman Canned whipped cream (like Reddi-wip) kept in the fridge for 20 months (14 months past best by date). Fridge is kept at 38°F and had a themometer part of the time. #RiskyOrNot" / Twitter Reddi-wip Whippet - Wikipedia Whipped-cream charger - Wikipedia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks when preparing poultry and just using hand sanitizer. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Jon Kimble on Twitter: "When preparing poultry, and you don't have soap and water available (?!) just use sanitizer… what do you think? @bugcounter @benjaminchapman @mbbatz https://t.co/2Ye77tpG4A" / Twitter Management of Risk of Microbial Cross-Contamination from Uncooked Frozen Hamburgers by Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press SaniTwice: a novel approach to hand hygiene for reducing bacterial contamination on hands when soap and water are unavailable - PubMed Efficacy of Instant Hand Sanitizers against Foodborne Pathogens Compared with Hand Washing with Soap and Water in Food Preparation Settings: A Systematic Review | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of old fruit cake. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 141-year-old fruitcake is a Michigan family's heirloom - News - Ionia Sentinel - Standard-Ionia, MI - Ionia, MI Intermediate Moisture Foods - ScienceDirect Fruitcake – Will it Last Forever? | NC State News Icebox Fruitcake And Why Christmas Trees Don't Have to be Green - Southern Bite World's Best Fruit Cake (Moist Fruit Cake Recipe) A Beautiful Plate

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating toilet Milky Way. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Milky Way (chocolate bar) - Wikipedia Reese's Peanut Butter Cups - Wikipedia Amazon.com: Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel: A Biography (9780306807367): Morgan, Judith, Morgan, Neil: Books Dr. Seuss Books Can Be Racist, But We Still Keep Reading Them : Code Switch : NPR

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of waterglassing eggs for room temperature storage. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Experimentally Killing Salmonella typhimurium on Egg Shells by Washing - ScienceDirect (10) Facebook Water Glassing Eggs for Long-Term Storage - Backyard Poultry https://www.fsis.usda.gov/shared/PDF/SE_Risk_Assess_Oct2005.pdf 39: Chapman's Backyard Poultry — Risky or Not?

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of licking a chocolate statue. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Watch in horror as people lick and bite a chocolate Benedict Cumberbatch statue Veronica Bryant (@NoroNerd) / Twitter Vomiting Device Offers First Direct Evidence That Vomit Aerosolizes Norovirus-Like Particles | NC State News

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of only rinsing a colander. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Neuro Fuzzy® Rice Cooker & Warmer NS-ZCC10/18 | Zojirushi.com Predictive Model for Growth of Bacillus cereus at Temperatures Applicable to Cooling of Cooked Pasta - Juneja - 2019 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library Bacillus cereus Biofilms—Same, Only Different

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using three day old hand towels. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 ‎Bacterial Occurrence in Kitchen Hand Towels The survival of foodborne pathogens during domestic washing-up and subsequent transfer onto washing-up sponges, kitchen surfaces and food - PubMed A study of the microbial content of the domestic kitchen: International Journal of Environmental Health Research: Vol 5, No 2

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating old frozen fish. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 FoodKeeper App | FoodSafety.gov Quality in Frozen Food - Marilyn C. Erickson, Yen-Con Hung - Google Books How Does the Freezer Burn Our Food? - Schmidt - 2009 - Journal of Food Science Education - Wiley Online Library

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using egg white in alcoholic drinks. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Would you like some eggs with your cocktail? | barfblog Antibacterial activity of egg white: influence of physico-chemical conditions

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using COVID-19 outdoor dining pods. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "I'll say interesting idea. Louis Cifer Brew Works

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing a meat thermometer. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Thermapen Mk4 Instant-read Thermometer for meat & more Comark PDT300 Waterproof Chefs Instant Read Thermometer Old USDA Appendix A 160°F Is Good

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from drinking directly from a soda can. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Kids can leave the can open : Nature News Method of protecting the open top of a beer can and a soda can against contamination by insects, dirt and debris

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of trick or treating bare handed. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Halloween - Wikipedia COVID-19: Holiday Celebrations | CDC Cleaning and Disinfectant Chemical Exposures and Temporal Associations with COVID-19 — National Poison Data System, United States, January 1, 2020–March 31, 2020 | MMWR

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing disposable coffee cups. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 38: Black Coffee at Room Temperature — Risky or Not? Why can't I put your paper cups or soup cups in the microwave?

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of serving raw pet food to your pets. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Get the Facts! Raw Pet Food Diets can be Dangerous to You and Your Pet | FDA Pet Food Safety | Healthy Pets, Healthy People | CDC Raw pet food blamed for human E. coli outbreak | Food Safety News pet food | Food Safety News Instinct® Frozen Raw Dog Food - Natural, Grain Free, Raw | dog Frozen Food | PetSmart

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using reusable containers in grocery stores Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Metro grocery stores in Quebec will allow customers to shop with reusable containers | CBC News Metro | Site corporatif

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating edible flowers. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Edible flowers. Benefits and risks pertaining to their consumption - ScienceDirect Edible flowers: A review of the nutritional, antioxidant, antimicrobial properties and effects on human health - ScienceDirect Comparison of microbial diversity of edible flowers and basil grown with organic versus conventional methods - Canadian Journal of Microbiology Edible Flowers Fact Sheet, Colorado State

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks making beef jerky in your dehydrator. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ FSIS Compliance Guideline for Meat and Poultry Jerky Produced by Small and Very Small Establishments Jerky and Food Safety National Center for Home Food Preservation | How Do I? Dry Fate of Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella Species in Ground Beef Jerky | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press Fate of Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes , and Salmonella typhimurium during Preparation and Storage of Beef Jerky - PubMed

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating day old poutine. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Poutine - Wikipedia 5: Doner Kebab — Risky or Not? Large Outbreak of Botulism: The Hazardous Baked Potato | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic Water Activity (aw) in Foods | FDA The Social Bar & Table – Fresh & Local Everyday

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of touching your face during the pandemic. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 LPT: Teach yourself to not touch your face throughout the day - you'll get sick less, as hand to face/mouth contact is one of the most common routes for microbial transmission. : LifeProTips Transmission of experimental rhinovirus infection by contaminated surfaces. - Abstract - Europe PMC Aerosol Transmission of Rhinovirus Colds | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of brining you turkey in the produce crisper of your refrigerator. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Randal Oulton on Twitter… turning their crispers into bathtubs for turkeys. Brining Safely Will Bring Tender, Flavorful Meat to the Thanksgiving Table | USDA

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of open, refillable bulk soap containers. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Influence of Soap Characteristics and Food Service Facility Type on the Degree of Bacterial Contamination of Open, Refillable Bulk Soaps | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings Urban Dictionary: marry the ketchups Bacterial hand contamination and transfer after use of contaminated bulk-soap-refillable dispensers - PubMed

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of holding unrefrigerated processed beets in your car for 5 hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Love Beets - Healthy Organic Beets, Beet Juice and Beet Powders 100% Organic Cooked Beets | Love Beets Batavia, New York - Wikipedia Geneseo, New York - Wikipedia Botulism from Home-Canned Beets. Botulism from Home-Canned Beets Outbreak Details: Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing wood in the kitchen. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Fast Facts About Cutting Boards and Food Safety in Your Kitchen | NC State News Which is Safer? Wood vs. Plastic Cutting Boards | Homegrown | NC State University Bacterial Adherence and Viability on Cutting Board Surfaces

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing dirty baby bibs within 4 hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Cronobacter species (formerly known as Enterobacter sakazakii) in powdered infant formula: a review of our current understanding of the biology of this bacterium - Yan - 2012 - Journal of Applied Microbiology - Wiley Online Library The human milk microbiome and factors influencing its composition and activity - ScienceDirect

48: John's Old Refrigerated Fried Rice Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating fried rice refrigerated for a long time. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 john roderick on Twitter: "I just ate a bunch of fried rice "…" Relationship Between the Heat Resistance of Spores and the Optimum and Maximum Growth Temperatures of Bacillus Species. Food Standards Australia - Bacillus cereus The Survival and Growth of Bacillus cereus in Boiled and Fried Rice in Relation to Outbreaks of Food Poisoning Influence of Anaerobiosis and Low Temperature on Bacillus cereus Growth, Metabolism, and Membrane Properties

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of double dipping a finger into your peanut butter. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Ted Lasso - Wikipedia Effect of Biting Before Dipping (Double‐Dipping) Chips on the Bacterial Population of the Dipping Solution

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from honey fermented garlic. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Honey Fermented Garlic: A Natural Remedy for Cold and Flu | Yang's Nourishing Kitchen Current Food Safety Issues of Home-prepared Vegetables and Herbs Stored in Oil Honey - Wikipedia pH and Acids in Honey Welcome to the Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Program