Risky or Not?

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

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of masked waiters touching your plate. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 The Lincoln Project on Twitter: "VOTER: Why can't we have a national mask mandate? TRUMP: Waiters. https://t.co/ivrYbewk0d" / Twitter Considerations for Restaurants and Bars | COVID-19 | CDC Community and Close Contact Exposures Associated with COVID-19 Among Symptomatic Adults ≥18 Years in 11 Outpatient Health Care Facilities — United States, July 2020 | MMWR NZ Document on COVID-19 Transmission Via Food

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating salt cured egg yolks. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Cured Egg Yolks Recipe | Bon Appetit Salt Cured Egg Yolks Effect of sublethal heat stress on Salmonella Typhimurium virulence "salt cured" egg yolk - Google Scholar Evaluating the Risk of Contracting Salmonellosis from Egg Yolk 'Parmesan'Based on Water Activity

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of leaving ones facemask on the table in times of COVID-19. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ (3) Brian #SlowtheSpread Sauders, PhD 🛒🔬🦠🧫🧬☣️😷 on Twitter: "@bugcounter @tvaziri @benjaminchapman How about taking your mask off in a meeting and putting it on the conference room table; then putting it back on when you leave the meeting? Similar situation in schools with masks off on the desks….😷" / Twitter Contamination by respiratory viruses on outer surface of medical masks used by hospital healthcare workers | BMC Infectious Diseases | Full Text Seegene Inc

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating reboiled soup stored at room temperature. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Daring Fireball: Jason Kottke on Dean Allen Food Safety Talk 144: They Look and Taste Like Green Turds — Food Safety Talk Bending the Rules on Bacteria and Food Safety - The New York Times Tyndallization - Wikipedia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing butter at room temperature Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Exposure of Listeria monocytogenes within an epidemic caused by butter in Finland - ScienceDirect Viability of Pathogenic Organisms in Butter. Applied Dairy Microbiology, Second Edition - Google Books Can You Leave Butter Out? Food Safety During Power Outage | FoodSafety.gov Microbiological Safety and Quality of Food - Google Books Evaluation and Definition of Potentially Hazardous Foods Viability of Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Listeria monocytogenes in butter, yellow fat spreads, and margarine as affected by temperature and physical abuse - ScienceDirect

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of refreezing butter. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Which Foods Can be Refrozen and Which Can't - UGA The Big Thaw

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of Ben's backyard (and front yard) poultry flock. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Backyard Poultry Flocks and Salmonellosis: A Recurring, Yet Preventable Public Health Challenge | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic Salmonella Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices: A Survey of Backyard Poultry Owners Residing in Seattle, Washington and the Surrounding Metropolitan Area Notes from the Field: Environmental Investigation of a Multistate Salmonellosis Outbreak Linked to Live Backyard Poultry from a Mail-Order Hatchery — Michigan, 2018 Outbreaks of Human Salmonella Infections Associated with Live Poultry, United States, 1990–2014 WKRP "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" Thanksgiving - YouTube Food Safety Talk 149: Free-range, Grass-fed Raised Unicorns — Food Safety Talk About Risky or Not… and our music by Jonathan Coulton

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of holding black coffee at room temperature all day. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Antibacterial activity of tea (Camellia sinensis) and coffee (Coffee arabica) with special reference to Salmonella typhimurium. - Abstract - Europe PMC Antibacterial Activity of Coffee Extracts and Selected Coffee Chemical Compounds against Enterobacteria | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Food Safety Considerations for Coffee and Tea Brewers | Food Safety & Quality Blog Death Wish coffee recall: Nitro Cold Brew can kill you

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making or holding tea at room temperature. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Genmaicha - Wikipedia What You Should Know Before Sipping Your Next Batch of Sun Tea, According to a Food Microbiologist | News Break Health Relevance of the Presence of Fecal Coliforms in Iced Tea and Leaf Tea Herbal Tea recalled in Canada for Salmonella risk | Food Safety News Herbal tea for infants, adults recalled because of Salmonella risk | Food Safety News Survival of Salmonella on chamomile, peppermint, and green tea during storage and subsequent survival or growth following tea brewing - PubMed Survival of Salmonella on Chamomile, Peppermint, and Green Tea during Storage and Subsequent Survival or Growth following Tea Brewing | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press US6120825A - Method for the hygienic preparation, storage, handling and dispensing of tea - Google Patents

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of sucking the air out of a meat bag Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Lakeside Refrigerated Services Recalls Beef Products due to Possible E.coli O157:H7 Contamination Food Safety Talk 79: You're Into Botulism Country (with Merlin Mann) — Food Safety Talk

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks or reusing reusing red onion pickling brine Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Quick Pickled Onions Recipe | Bon Appetit Outbreak Investigation of Salmonella Newport: Red Onions (July 2020) | FDA

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of thawing frozen fish in vacuum packed bag Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/fsis-content/internet/main/topics/regulations/advisory-committees/nacmcf-reports/nacmcf-map-fishery-products Conservative Prediction of Time to Clostridium botulinum Toxin Formation for Use with Time-Temperature Indicators To Ensure the Safety of Foods | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press Consumer home refrigeration practices: results of a web-based survey - PubMed

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of fermenting black garlic Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Black garlic - Wikipedia Black Garlic – food safety – Dr. Brian Nummer PhD

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating food stored in a delivery bag in a restroom. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 (12) JSmith on Twitter: "Risky or Not? @benjaminchapman @bugcounter https://t.co/n5mMp5MxKv" / Twitter Bathroom-stored grocery bag fingered in norovirus outbreak | CIDRAP

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating rice left in a waming rice cooker over night Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Neuro Fuzzy® Rice Cooker & Warmer NS-ZCC10/18 | Zojirushi.com Bacillus cereus - Wikipedia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cutting mold off hard cheese. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Formation of Aflatoxin in Cheddar Cheese by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus - ScienceDirect

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risk of methanol hand sanitizer. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ FDA updates on hand sanitizers consumers should not use | FDA Serious Adverse Health Events, Including Death, Associated with Ingesting Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers Containing Methanol — Arizona and New Mexico, May–June 2020 | MMWR 8 People in U.S. Have Died After Ingesting Hand Sanitizer Containing 'Toxic' Methanol Toxicity of Methyl alcohol (Methanol) Following Skin Absorption and Inhalation | Industrial & Engineering Chemistry The hidden danger of hand sanitizer | MDedge Psychiatry

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using bar soap Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Washing with contaminated bar soap is unlikely to transfer bacteria

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating at a restaurant in times of COVID-19 Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Raleigh restaurant professionally cleaned after coronavirus patient ate there :: WRAL.com Considerations for Restaurants and Bars | COVID-19 | CDC

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from dried pig eat pet treats to pet owners. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella Infections Linked to Contact with Pig Ear Pet Treats | Outbreak of Salmonella Infections Linked to Pet Treats | July 2019 | Salmonella | CDC The Occurrence and Anti‐microbial Susceptibility of Salmonellae Isolated from Commercially Available Pig Ear Pet Treats - Finley - 2008 - Zoonoses and Public Health - Wiley Online Library

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from vaping in light of recent CDC reports. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Update: Demographic, Product, and Substance-Use Characteristics of Hospitalized Patients in a Nationwide Outbreak of E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Useâ€"Associated Lung Injuries â€" United States, December 2019 | MMWR Outbreak of Lung Injury Associated with the Use of E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Products | Electronic Cigarettes | Smoking & Tobacco Use | CDC

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the microbiological risks from puppies. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Outbreak of Multidrug-resistant Campylobacter Infections Linked to Contact with Pet Store Puppies | Multidrug-resistant Campylobacter Infections Linked to Contact with Pet Store Puppies | December 2019 | Campylobacter | CDC

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from the immunocompromised handling devices like iPhones. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ (2) Todd Vaziri on Twitter: “@bugcounter I have a friend with a kid who is in chemo, and is wondering what is the best way to sanitize iPhones and electronics? My initial thought is the glass/metal of a bare iPhone is relatively easy to clean… but the plastic/rubber cases are much harder.” / Twitter Your Cell Phone Is 10 Times Dirtier Than a Toilet Seat | Time Why your cellphone has more germs than a toilet | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | The University of Arizona Why your cellphone has more germs than a toilet - TODAY Health

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from leaving your refrigerator open for two hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 (2) Justin on Twitter: “@bugcounter someone left the door to our fridge open since 12:00 or 12:30. It is now 2:00 when we discovered the open door and the thermometer reads 50 degrees. Throw out all the food, or shut the fridge door and continue with our lives?” / Twitter ComBase Food Safety During Power Outage | FoodSafety.gov

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating five year old candy canes. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 (1) Julie Libarkin on Twitter: “I like candy canes as decorations this time of year. I save them - some are probably 5 years old. All in nice plastic. Very important question from someone not raised w candy canes: Can I still eat them? #candy” / Twitter Water activity in candy and confectionery | METER Moisture and shelf life in sugar confections. - PubMed - NCBI