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Food Safety Talk 128: It's the Esters, John

Added on June 21, 2017 by Don Schaffner.

The show begins with a discussion of Ben's recent travels. From there the discussion moves on to obligatory talk about beverages, Canadian and Philadelphia accents, Apple, and other podcasts. The food safety talk begins in earnest with the discussion about what is meant by the words "risk assessment". From there the discussion turns to "food safety programs", restaurant inspections and what customers might want to know, the humor of David Lloyd, and then back to meat safety and proper thermometer use.  The show ends with The Onions humorous take on handwashing water temperature. The After Dark contains the usual nonsense including talk about music videos.

  • Caldera - Wikipedia
  • Yellowstone Supervolcano Hit by a Swarm of More Than 400 Earthquakes in One Week
  • Definition of Dingus by Merriam-Webster
  • Foley (filmmaking) - Wikipedia)
  • pamplemousse - Wiktionary
  • LaCroix Flavors of Sparkling Water, Ranked From Worst to Best - Thrillist
  • HBO: The Wire: Homepage
  • Apple is going to let podcast creators — and advertisers — see what listeners actually like - Recode
  • Merch Save America – Crooked Media
  • Risk Assessment of Human Listeriosis
  • Meat processed overseas, branded Australian faces ban in proposal by Federal crossbenchers
  • Designing a national restaurant inspection disclosure system for New Zealand. - PubMed - NCBI
  • Professional Food Manager Practice Quiz - ProProfs Quiz
  • About Us David Lloyd
  • Lebanese Raw Kibbe Recipe – Kibbeh Nayyeh
  • 'Cannibal sandwiches' sicken Wisconsin residents - NBC News
  • Meat and Poultry Dialogue - Meridian Institute
  • Summer Grilling Graphics - Fight Bac!
  • 160°F Is Good
  • Study: Hot Water Not Better For Washing Hands - The Onion - America's Finest News Source
  • The Onion - handwashing post
  • Van Halen - Panama (Music Video) - YouTube
  • Taylor Swift - Shake It Off - 1989 African Hipster Version ft. Alex Boye Changing Lanes - YouTube
Tags Yellowstone, Seltzer, Podcasts, Risk Assessment, Kibbe, Steak tartare, David Lloyd, Hamburgers, Thermometers, Restaurants, Inspection

Food Safety Talk 127: A five-second lather

Added on June 10, 2017 by Ben Chapman.

Don and Ben get down and dirty with shower habits, trips to Idaho and calendar best practices. They go in-depth on the science of handwashing, including temperatures and lathering styles including a creepy mechanical pigskin hand simulator. The show ends with a response to Roderick on the Line's question on keeping bacon fat on the stove and listener followup on home pasteurized eggs.

Show notes so you can follow at home:

  • Sun Valley, Idaho - Wikipedia
  • What is Glamping? | Glamping.com
  • Yellowstone Under Canvas | Glamping.com
  • Good science is fucking hard: Handwashing sensation finds cool water as effective as hot water for removing germs | barfblog
  • Quantifying the Effects of Water Temperature, Soap Volume, Lather Time, and Antimicrobial Soap as Variables in the Removal of Escherichia coli ATCC 11229 from Hands | Journal of Food Protection
  • Food Code > Food Code 2013
  • Oxidative stability of lard and sunflower oil supplemented with coffee extracts under storage conditions
  • The Inhibition of Fat Oxidation Processes By N. M. Emanuel, Yu. N. Lyaskovskaya
  • Ep. 246: “Night Burrito” - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
  • Unpack | Definition of Unpack by Merriam-Webster
  • What’s the Deal With Tuna Scrape? | Food Safety News
  • How to pasteurize eggs at home | Baking Bites
  • How (and Why) to Pasteurize Eggs With Your Sous Vide Cooker
  • Appendix A to Compliance Guidelines
  • FACT CHECK: Did a Tainted Buffet Cause a ‘Severe Diarrhea Incident’ at a Strip Club?

Food Safety Talk 126: Deep inside the sauce

Added on May 28, 2017 by Don Schaffner.

After a short recap regarding Ben's travels, and fermented food safety, the guys do a deep dive into the nacho cheese sauce linked botulism outbreak, resurfacing eventually to talk about leftovers and pop culture.

  • Caddyshack - Gunga Galunga - YouTube
  • The 65 Roses Story
  • Chick-fil-A same-sex marriage controversy - Wikipedia
  • Merch Save America - Crooked Media
  • Martin, Charles Cromwell
  • Battle Diary: From D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and VE
  • ComBase
  • Colorado State Fermented Foods ppt pdf
  • Survival of Escherichia coli O157:H7, Salmonella enteritidis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Listeria monocytogenes in Kimchi
  • Maybe that fermentation ain't working so well, Korea, 2012 - barfblog
  • Gehls Cheese Sauce Possibly Linked to Valley Oak Food and Fuel Gas Station Nacho Botulism Outbreak
  • Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Gehl's Premium Nacho Cheese Sauce
  • Amazon.com: GEHL's, Jalapeno Cheese, 80.0 oz.
  • Sierra Peristaltic Cheese Sauce Dispenser - 120V, 200W
  • Nacho cheese linked to gas station botulism outbreak | barfblog
  • FRI processed cheese article
  • FPT Beverage Dispensers article
  • Veronica Bryant (@NoroNerd) | Twitter
  • Gehl Foods Recalls Nacho Cheese and Chili Sauce Dispensers Due to Fire and Burn Hazards
  • Dispensers from Gehl Foods
  • 10 hospitalized with botulism tied to nacho cheese
  • Can you get food poisoning twice in a row, from the same food? | Metro News
  • Bruce Vilanch - Wikipedia
Tags Caddyshack, Chick-fil-a, History, Fermented foods, Kimchi, Botulism, Cheese, Nacho, Leftovers, Bruce Vilanch

Food Safety Talk 125: Slapping it on a bun

Added on May 7, 2017 by Ben Chapman.

Don and Ben talked big concerts, Flaming Lips (the band, not the anatomy) obscure Canadian bands covering Neil Young and then got into some food safety stuff like the particulars of deer antler tea, with some deer penis sprinkled in. The discussion went to the rules around home-based food businesses and how risk-based decisions are made in regulatory choices. The episode finished with some listener feedback on washing produce and mold and whether food employees at Blue Apron (and like mail-order businesses) should have local health department food handler training.

Show notes so you can follow along at home:

  • COOLIO
  • Love and Rockets (band) - Wikipedia
  • Pet Sounds - Wikipedia
  • Cover version - Wikipedia
  • Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon - Wikipedia
  • Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute to Neil Young - Wikipedia
  • Borrowed Tunes II: A Tribute to Neil Young - Wikipedia
  • Day of the Dead (2016 album) - Wikipedia
  • The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon - Wikipedia
  • Watch The Flaming Lips’ Inner-Band Drama From Portlandia‘s Pickathon Episode - Stereogum
  • Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Wikipedia
  • Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto - Wikipedia
  • 10 years later: How the Mad Cow crisis changed an industry and a province (with videos)
  • Deer-antler tea linked with botulism case in Orange County | abc7.com
  • Deer Antler to Nourish Blood, Bone, and Joints
  • Steve Harvey, Asian Remedies and Deer Penis – michelle in the kitchen
  • Mailing List - New Jersey Home Bakers Bill
  • NCDA&CS - Food & Drug Protection - Food Program
  • AFDO Cottage Foods pdf
  • AFDO Cottage Foods Presentation Corby.pdf
  • Tragedy as ‘smiling’ baby Tyler Wilson dies of salmonella at five months old | Hull Daily Mail
  • ‘Fry them’ comments in jury room could get Parnells a new trial | Food Safety News
  • Why are salad greens always labeled “triple-washed”?
  • Palumbo et al. article
  • These go to 11.mpg - YouTube
  • Julie Finigan Morris
  • FSIS article on mold safety
  • Parasitic Diseases, 6th Ed —
  • This Week in Parasitism
  • Blue Apron Has “Concerns” Over Proposed Food Safety Regulation - BuzzFeed News
  • Boston’s Chicken & Rice Guys shutdown to “sort out” E. coli outbreak | Food Safety News

Food Safety Talk 124: Talking about Mike Scorpion

Added on April 20, 2017 by Don Schaffner.

This episode starts with a chat about the need for butter refrigeration, bats and scorpions in leafy greens (oh my).  The guys briefly celebrate Ben's birthday before talking about risk attribution, and yet another hot take on the 5 second rule, eating insects on purpose, and "food safety" tips from the internet. They make two book recommendations before talking about rat lungworm and other disgusting things.  The show wraps with an example of doing food safety right, and breaking news about doing food safety wrong before a brief dip into pop culture.  

  • Do you really need to refrigerate butter? - TODAY.com
  • Show me the data: butter at room temperature edition
  • Bats in salad is yuck factor stuff; actual illnesses end up lost
  • Dead Bat Found Inside Package of Salad in Florida, Officials Say
  • Isolation of Salmonella Virchow from a fruit bat (Pteropus giganteus)
  • Maryland Woman Finds Live Scorpion in Bag of Spinach
  • Nena‎- 99 Luftballons - YouTube
  • Ranking the disease burden of 14 pathogens in food sources in the United States...
  • Alton Brown on the 5-Second Rule
  • Flour recall: How E. coli in flour can make you sick
  • Get your fried grasshoppers here: the big hit at Mariners home games
  • 8 Foods You Shouldn't Reheat (Because They Could Poison You)
  • Feel free to order soup anywhere | Six Tips to Avoid Foodborne Illness When Dining Out
  • Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
  • Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
  • Pod Save America on Twitter
  • Rat Lungworm on Hawaii puts produce at risk
  • Undercooled meat. Dangerous fish. Health inspectors ding Trump’s Mar-a-Lago kitchen
  • AmazonFresh
  • Mango Ice Cream Bars Recalled in Georgia due to Salmonella
  • Brockmire
Tags Butter, Bats, Scorpions, Salmonella, 5 second rule, Insects, Rat Lungworm, Mar-a-Lago

Food Safety Talk 123: My mom was pissed

Added on April 4, 2017 by Ben Chapman.

In this episode, Don and Ben talk about life hacks and things that might not be life hacks; Gwyneth Paltrow, cookbooks and Ben's recent media experiences (and the perils of emailing while sitting on the toilet). Also in this episode the guys breakdown STEC in soy nut butter and Dixie Dew's FDA 483 form plus a bonus on ROP cheeses.

Show notes so you can follow along at home:

  • Dishwasher Detergent Soak Cleans Dishes Overnight
  • The 65 Roses Story | CF Foundation
  • The Official Website for the HBO Series Girls
  • Love (TV Series) - IMDb
  • The OA (TV Series) - IMDb
  • Reconcilable Differences - Relay FM
  • Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - IMDb
  • The Big Lebowski (1998) - IMDb
  • Our battle with Gwyneth: cookbook edition | barfblog
  • Food Safety Experts Are Not Pleased with Gwyneth Paltrow’s Cookbooks
  • John Bassett Consulting Ltd
  • Don’t Wash Your Chicken | Drexel University
  • Dixie Dew Hit with FDA Suspension Due to E. coli Outbreak - Stunning Inspection Findings | Marler Blog
  • Dixie Dew Products
  • Dixie Dew Products FDA Mar 2008 Inspection | FDAzilla
  • About FDAzilla
  • Dixie Dew Products FDA Jul 2014 Inspection | FDAzilla
  • Federal Register :: Accreditation of Third-Party Certification Bodies To Conduct Food Safety Audits and To Issue Certifications
  • Audits and inspections are never enough: A critique to enhance food safety
  • THE 2007 Castleberry Farms Botulism Outbreak | Food Poison Journal
  • Botulism Associated with Commercially Canned Chili Sauce — Texas and Indiana, July 2007
  • Nummer Fact Sheet - Reduced Oxygen Packaging in the 2013 US FDA Food Code
  • Conservative prediction of time to Clostridium botulinum toxin formation for use with time-temperature indicators to ensure the safety of foods
  • CFP issue packets 2012, attachment for III_009_c

Food Safety Talk 122: Isn't that Ampersand?

Added on March 24, 2017 by Don Schaffner.

This episode opens with an interesting discovery about the messages app then quickly veers into popular culture, and almost as quickly back to food safety.  Food safety talk on rice and Bacillus cereus is followed by a discussion of the Salmonella in truffle oil outbreak at Fig & Olive restaurants.  The discussion then turns to recalls and when to go public. A recent Listeria recall linked to cheese made from pasteurized milk leads to talk about raw milk, followed by a brief segue into North Carolina life, and then on to a recent Lysol ad, and the five second rule. The show wraps up with a discussion of recipe safety, followed by what Ben thinks might be the best after dark ever.

Show notes so you can follow along at home:

  • Coolio- Gangster's Paradise
  • Weird Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise
  • Dangerous Minds
  • More Life by Drake
  • TypeShift on the App Store
  • @MerriamWebster
  • Leftover Rice Could Make You Very Sick
  • Prevalence, characterization and growth of Bacillus cereus in commercial cooked chilled foods containing vegetables
  • Investigation of Salmonella Enteritidis Outbreak Associated with Truffle Oil — District of Columbia, 2015
  • Fig & Olive on barfblog
  • Fig & Olive Settles Majority of Salmonella Poisoning Cases
  • Going public: Why FDA doesn’t share retail outlet information (but should)
  • Bill Hallman, Rutgers University
  • Sargento Cheese Recalled - Colby Cheese Contaminated With Listeria
  • Like Russian Roulette? Try Raw Milk
  • David Gumpert
  • Pod Save America
  • NC woman’s wedding dress accidentally donated to Goodwill
  • Dueling Banjos
  • American Standard Toilet: VorMax “Splatter”
  • Lysol Kitchen Pro TV Commercial, 'Five-Second Rule' - iSpot.tv
  • Lysol and the FTC
  • Yeast Waffles Recipe - Allrecipes.com
  • Evaluating food safety risk messages in popular cookbooks
  • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right: Atul Gawande
  • Steve Jobs "BOOM" complete compilation (1992-2010) - YouTube
  • I Love LA, Randy Newman
  • Recipes Just Got Safe with Our New Online Tool
  • Page Not Found | FoodSafety.gov
  • AirPods - Apple
  • Aloksak Durable Film Bags
Tags Coolio, TypeShift, Rice, Bacillus cereus, Truffle Oil, Salmonella, Fig & Olive, Bill Hallman, Listeria, Pod Save America, Lysol, Yeast Waffles, Recalls, Recipes

Food Safety Talk 121: Seesaws and slides

Added on March 11, 2017 by Ben Chapman.

Don and Ben talk I.M. Healthy's soy nut butter-linked E. coli O157 outbreak; social responsibility and food safety; and produce washing. The guys also discuss the particulars of goalie screening and Salmonella sticking around in the environment for months. Bonus: urinals.

Show notes so you can follow along at home:

  • David Brent: Life on the Road
  • Legionella
  • When I’m Sixty-Four
  • Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina
  • Rumi: Buy Afghan Saffron
  • Kinesiology Tape and How it’s Used in Physical Therapy
  • Screen
  • Ryan Smyth
  • Going Public: Early Disclosure of Food Risks for the Benefit of Public Health
  • FDA Investigates Multistate Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Infections Linked to SoyNut Butter
  • Multistate Outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infections Linked to I.M. Healthy Brand SoyNut Butter
  • I.M. Healthy SoyNut butter website
  • Research finds some E. coli survive cooking temperatures
  • Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Soft Raw Milk Cheese Made by Vulto Creamery
  • An Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium Associated with Playground Sand in a Preschool Setting — Madrid, Spain
  • One more look at lessons unlearned in raw burger outbreak
  • The President and Safe Food
  • McDonald’s Now Serving Chicken Raised Without Antibiotics — Mostly
  • Pod Save America
  • Is washing your produce a waste of time?
  • Linda J. Harris
  • Randy Worobo
  • This Glass Toaster Costs $1,000—But It Can Cook Steak
  • Bridge of Spies
  • The Amazon reviews for a phone designed for rectal smuggling
  • Facebook link to Steak in a Toaster

Food Safety Talk 120: It's "Sody Pops"

Added on February 27, 2017 by Don Schaffner.

Continuing our purple themed image run, we talk lifehacks, what to call fizzy beverages, other junk food, good TV, junk science, and food fraud.

  • Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now)
  • Dishwasher Detergent Soak Cleans Dishes Overnight
  • Soda vs Pop vs. Coke: Who Says What, And Where?
  • Soda Vs. Pop Map
  • The Pop Shoppe - Wikipedia
  • Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
  • Gunga Galunga
  • SoftRound 24 Pack Foam Earbud Earpad Ear Bud Pad Replacement Sponge Covers
  • Ron Swanson
  • Tom Haverford
  • Girls (TV series))
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
  • Always Be Closing - Glengarry Glen Ross Movie clip
  • Fun Kee Jenkins on LinkedIn
  • Spicy In Means Spicy Out (pdf)
  • Librarian's list of 'predatory' journals reportedly removed due to 'threats and politics'
  • Impact factor
  • h-index
  • Family finds live chicken in washroom at Cobourg McDonald's
  • @MCBazacoPhD onTwitter
  • GOOGLE "blacklists" Natural News
  • xkcd: Duty Calls
  • Morgan Hill Restaurant Fined $120K For Serving Tilapia As Petrale Sole
  • Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn't Honey
  • Andrew Schneider, great journalist and great guy, passes
  • Canadians concerned about food fraud
  • Yeah, well that's just your opinion man. (Big Lebowski)
  • Presser - Wiktionary
  • Melissa McCarthy
  • MDA issues consumer advisory for Dukarani Food Processing products
  • BeFoodSafe.ca
  • David Simon (@AoDespair) on Twitter
Tags Soap, Soda stream, Soda, Candy, Predatory journals, Impact factor, Food fraud

Food Safety Talk 119: It’s Purple, I Visited It

Added on February 7, 2017 by Ben Chapman.

Don and Ben talk passion, flushing habits, ceviche, flour, cookie dough, Listeria and posting warning letters.

Show notes so you can follow along at home:

  • Super Bowl LI
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople
  • The Castle
  • Love It or List It
  • Portlandia (season 7)
  • Sean Spicer Press Conference (Melissa McCarthy)
  • Pod Save the World
  • Woman, prosecuted for ceviche sales on Facebook, settles with DA | Ars Technica
  • Woman, prosecuted for selling $12 of ceviche on Facebook, now faces trial | Ars Technica
  • Conference Agenda | CFSEC 2017
  • Iowa cookie dough supplier shuts down after listeria outbreak
  • FDA Warning Letter 2017 > Aspen Hills, Inc. 1/10/17
  • cookiedough.com - by Aspen Hills, Inc., Garner - Iowa
  • Watch: Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl halftime show reminded America she’s a star - Vox
  • Verizon FiOS rolls out 500/100 Mbps broadband, its highest speed tier yet

Food Safety Talk 118: Hand Size Matters

Added on January 24, 2017 by Don Schaffner.

This episode has you covered from the top of your head to the tips of your lucky socks. Ben and Don dig into some 1980's culture and shoot forward into the food on the future, and then back again. It's a food (and pet) safety grab bag covering pineapple safety, hand sizes and hand sanitizers, safe raw cookie dough, rats, turtles, milk from camels, microgreens and toilet history.

Here are some links so you can follow along at home.

  • Socks
  • Miami Vice
  • eero - WiFi
  • Dippin' Dots
  • Sean Spicer's Dippin' Dots Tweets Put Press Secretary On The Spot : NPR
  • Dippin' Dots open letter
  • Say Anything...
  • Ill Communication by Beastie Boys on Apple Music
  • Pod Save America
  • sciencecafes.org
  • Science Cafe: You cannot B. cereus: Microbial food safety in the modern world
  • Lunds & Byerlys Pulls 'Fresh-Cut Cored Pineapple' after Voluntary Recall | KSTP.com
  • Growth Potential of Listeria Monocytogenes and Staphylococcus Aureus on Fresh-Cut Tropical Fruits
  • USDA Scientists Have Been Put On Lockdown Under Trump
  • You Aren't Using Enough Hand Sanitizer
  • Hand coverage by alcohol-based handrub varies: Volume and hand size matter
  • Gorge On Cookie Dough In All Its Forms At This NYC Eatery
  • Spaceballs (1987)
  • Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-values
  • CDC: Pet rats linked to virus outbreak
  • FDA Bets It Will Escape Coming Political Hurricane, Targets Raw Camel Milk
  • FDA Compliance & Enforcement on Salmonella and Turtle Safety NC rule on pet turtles
  • The History of 'Toilet' on Merriam-Webster
  • Microgreens, Elevator, This Old House
Tags Dippin' dots, Listeria, Pineapple, Hand sanitizers, P values, Cookie Dough, Camel Milk, Raw Milk, Toilets, Micro Greens

Food Safety Talk 117: Clean Out The Air

Added on January 14, 2017 by Ben Chapman.

Ben and Don talk about stuff they are watching, good kid movies and some food safety stuff. The pathogen conversation moves from listener feedback about oysters and couscous; to raw meat for pets; hazelnuts and Salmonella; and, sucking pathogens out of Chipotle air.

Show notes so you can follow along at home:

  • Pod Save America
  • Parks and Recreation
  • Black Books
  • The Moaning of Life
  • A telling, tense exchange between Kellyanne Conway and Seth Meyers about Trump - The Washington Post
  • Jon Stewart on Crossfire - YouTube
  • Russian Thinkfluencers | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
  • What’s Up, Doc?
  • Clue
  • Explorers
  • Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
  • Food Safety Talk 116: Amusing My Bouche
  • CSPI Vibrio letter
  • Food Safety Talk 115: Features Chico Marx
  • Hospital-acquired listeriosis linked to a persistently contaminated milkshake machine
  • A Shopper’s Eye View of Food Safety at Retail Stores: Lessons from Photographs Taken while Grocery Shopping
  • Chipotle Installed ‘Breakthrough’ Devices That Suck Pathogens Out of Its Stores’ Air
  • South Florida-based RGF and Chipotle contract to proactively ensure food safety at all of its 2,200+ restaurants
  • Is raw meat a good or bad thing for pets?
  • Monty Python - Dead Parrot
  • Salmonella outbreak traced to hazelnuts from Oregon farm | Food Safety News
  • Twinkies recalled because of powdered milk Salmonella issue

Food Safety Talk 116: Amusing My Bouche

Added on January 4, 2017 by Don Schaffner.

Served gratis and according to your host's selection alone, we offer up this post-holiday treat for your listening pleasure.

Show notes so you can follow along at home:

  • Labatts
  • Philips goLITE
  • North Carolina is no longer a democracy
  • QDOBA Mexican Eats
  • How to Start Listening to "Hamilton" via Kung Fu Grippe
  • AirPods - Apple
  • SONY MDR-7506 Headphones Replacement Ear Pad
  • Westworld (TV series) - Wikipedia
  • James Marsden - Wikipedia
  • The Hilarious World of Depression by American Public Media on iTunes
  • Carrie Fisher
  • All the news just repeats itself: Restaurant disclosure proposed for France on barfblog
  • Wendy's Put a Troll on Ice With 2017's Best Tweet So Far
  • Safety? Food on iPads on barfblog
  • We Want Plates
  • Carol Wallace, University of Central Lancashire
  • CSPI petitions undetectable limit of Vibrio vulnificus in molluscan shellfish, FDA says no on barfblog
  • FDA vibrio petition denial
  • Food Safety Talk 115: Features Chico Marx
  • Cause of Contra Costa County Thanksgiving Foodborne Illness Outbreak Identified
  • Dan Letendre on Twitter
  • Top 10 Food Poisoning Stories of 2016
  • crabs holding cigarettes
  • crabs holding knives
  • UK's raw milk vending machine outbreak expands; 56 sick
  • Raw milk advocates make the most of anti-reg mood in U.S.
  • Outbreak Linked to Raw Milk from South Carolina
  • Blue Bell asks FDA if it can return testing to 'industry norm'
  • More on Modernist Cuisine and bad microbial food safety; Colbert, careful of Clostridium in the pastrami
  • Feds waited 8 months to reveal cucumber Salmonella outbreak
  • Beth McCoy at SUNY Geneseo
  • People I Follow by The MESH on iTunes
Tags Vibrio vulnificus, Barfblog, Raw Milk, Ice cream, Salmonella, Cucumbers, Westworld, Carrie Fisher, Mental illness, Plates

Food Safety Talk 115: Features Chico Marx

Added on December 19, 2016 by Ben Chapman.

It’s the super happy holiday version of Food Safety Talk. Don and Ben chat about Christmas movies, gambling as children and other holiday traditions. Making appearances in the guys' discussion Twitter and posting great questions of regulators about poor recall notices; cooling and holding cous cous and regulatory interpretations of time as a public health control; norovirus outbreaks at schools; and, Chipotle’s food safety culture.

Links so you can follow along at home:

  • A Training Company
  • ATC Food Safety on Twitter: “In a total dick move, stupid high school kids fed teacher #semenfrosting. Seriously” 
  • Tweets with replies by John Bassett (@FoodRiskGuy) | Twitter
  • Edible Dehydrated Zebra Tarantula
  • Trump Grill could be the worst restaurant in America | barfblog
  • Love Actually (2003)
  • Elf (2003)
  • Die Hard (1988)
  • SNL puts Hillary Clinton in Love Actually’s cue card scene in its saddest, realest sketch of 2016
  • Watch Ya Mouth Game Rules
  • Michele on Twitter: “My sister bought this game where you put some dental like contraption in your mouth. This does not look like fun and I’m not playing. https://t.co/ZvI3m5x0UA”
  • Kenny Rogers - The Gambler (1978)
  • Michigan – Card Game Rules
  • Championship Bridge
  • Incoming North Carolina Governor Vows Repeal of Controversial LGBT Laws
  • Mystery bug sends Rutgers students to hospital
  • ‘Unpresidented’: Do typos make Trump seem more authentic? - CSMonitor.com
  • Oasis 146
  • Chapman attacks norovirus with multifaceted approach - Happenings
  • Troubled Chipotle Will Lose One of Its C.E.O.s - The New York Times
  • Admiral Ackbar
  • Chipotle CEO Ells uses the bare hand touch test for meat doneness
  • How to Start Listening to “Hamilton” | kung fu grippe
  • 1776
  • War of 1812
  • Chance Rings in Our Last Obama Christmas on SNL

 

 

Food Safety Talk 114: Food of the Future!

Added on December 8, 2016 by Don Schaffner.

The recording starts as Ben answers the call in video mode, but things soon get back on track.

  • Ingrid Michaelson
  • Koan - Wikipedia
  • Baratza Grinders
  • LMGTFY
  • The Crown (TV Series) - IMDb
  • Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (TV Mini-Series 2016) - IMDb
  • Dan Letendre on Twitter
  • But What If We're Wrong?: by Chuck Klosterman
  • Fear Agent - Wikipedia
  • Big Hero 6 (2014) - IMDb
  • Food porn: People want rare hamburgers yet aren't informed of risks | barfblog
  • Craig Ferguson on Keith Richards and The Rolling Stones - YouTube
  • Matt Shipman (@ShipLives) | Twitter
  • Don't Trust Your Waiter for Food Safety Advice, NC State News
  • More illnesses tied to Antioch Thanksgiving meal
  • Church dinner at Legion post on Thanksgiving ends in tragedy | Food Safety News
  • Cooking for Crowds Curriculum - Instructor Materials, Penn State Extension
  • Not the 4-H: 21 confirmed sick with Salmonella in 8 US states from contact with dairy bull calves | barfblog
  • Prevalence and Level of Listeria monocytogenes in Ice Cream
  • Infectious Dose of Listeria monocytogenes in Outbreak Linked to Ice Cream, United States, 2015
  • Recovery and Growth Potential of Listeria monocytogenes in Temperature Abused Milkshakes Prepared from Naturally Contaminated Ice Cream...
  • Salmonella Enteritidis Infections Associated with a Contaminated Immersion Blender at a Camp
  • Older Adults and Food Poisoning
  • Nutrition Tips to Keep the Immune System Strong for People with HIV-AIDS
  • Blue Bell 483 form
  • Blue Bell's 483 form response
  • Edible Dehydrated Zebra Tarantula
  • Insects as the Food of the Future
  • Say Anything... (1989) - IMDb
  • A Chef's Life | Shows | PBS Food

Special test for true friends of the show: Don edited the audio, but it sounds like Ben did.  Why?

Tags Hamburgers, Rolling Stones, Thanksgiving, Church Dinners, Bluebell Ice Cream, Listeria, Insects

Food Safety Talk 113: A Tale of Two Outbreaks

Added on November 28, 2016 by Ben Chapman.

Show notes so you can follow along at home: 

  • What’s the deal, Banana Peel? - idioms colloquialism catchphrase
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Tracey Ullman’s Show
  • Donald Trump Prepares Cold Open - SNL - YouTube
  • Dave Chappelle Stand-Up Monologue - SNL - YouTube
  • WRAL changes language policy for SNL :: WRAL.com
  • Harry Chapin
  • Zobo Funn Band
  • yves REY | LinkedIn
  • Thanksgiving
  • Matt Shipman (@ShipLives) | Twitter
  • Goldsboro, North Carolina
  • California single mom may do jail time for selling ceviche on Facebook
  • Single Mom Faces Jail Time After Participating in Facebook Food Group
  • Proposed Virginia law would allow sale of uninspected home processed food
  • On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen: Harold McGee
  • Microbiological and observational analysis of cross contamination risks during domestic food preparation: British Food Journal: Vol 106, No 8
  • Cross-Contamination During Food Preparation: A Mechanistic Model Applied to Chicken-Borne Campylobacter - Mylius - 2007 - Risk Analysis
  • Sabra Hummus Recall
  • All the germs, bacteria, and diseases living on your phone - Business Insider
  • Frank Yiannas (@frankyiannas) | Twitter
  • One percent of cucumbers carry salmonella, FDA says
  • Sampling > Microbiological Surveillance Sampling: FY16 Cucumbers and Hot Peppers
  • Estimating the annual fraction of eggs contaminated with Salmonella enteritidis in the United States
  • john roderick (@johnroderick) | Twitter
  • Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency | BBC America
  • A Thanksgiving Miracle - SNL - YouTube

Food Safety Talk 112: Magical little poop nugget

Added on November 17, 2016 by Don Schaffner.

This birthday themed episode features wide-ranging topics, many based on listener feedback. We briefly touch on election results, and then move (almost) right into food safety. Thanks to everyone for listening and for your feedback.

  • Mac - Apple
  • HoudahSpot software
  • First Dubai International Conference on Applied Nutrition - DIFSC
  • Manpreet Singh
  • The Talk Show Ep. 172, With Special Guest Merlin Mann
  • Rutgers 250
  • Li Ching-Yuen - Wikipedia
  • Li Ching-Yuen: 256-Year-Old Man? : snopes.com
  • Cat's Cradle - Sloan, November 16th, 2016
  • Restaurant & Commercial Kitchen Equipment | Alto-Shaam
  • Appendix A to Compliance Guidelines
  • D-value (microbiology) - Wikipedia
  • z value wikipedia - Google Search
  • People get "violently ill" from Soylent bars; company stumped
  • From seaweed to algae: Soylent blames flour for making customers violently ill
  • Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae
  • The Wire Clip: Omar "It's all in the game"
  • Luis Ramirez on Twitter: Dogs at grocery stores that prepare foods...
  • The Grammarphobia Blog: Out of pocket
Tags Apple, Dubai, Manpreet Singh, Rutgers University, USDA FSIS, D-value, Soylent, Dogs

Food Safety Talk 111: The Meat Spot

Added on October 26, 2016 by Ben Chapman.

Show notes so you can follow along at home: 

  • Food Safety Talk 110: Drumsticks and Cornettos — Food Safety Talk
  • Elementary
  • no regerts - Google Search
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Wikipedia
  • life aquatic tattoo - Google Search
  • Dr Andrew R. Binder - NC State
  • Mr. Robot
  • The New Dirk Gently Show Is Nothing Like the Books, But It’s Still a Blast | WIRED
  • Reconcilable Differences #37: A Useless Angle for Swordfighting
  • uht milk bacilus - Google Scholar
  • Wings
  • Sideways
  • Divorce
  • Sinister ‘Clowns’ Are Scaring People In Multiple States : The Two-Way : NPR
  • Penn State students totally lose it after clown sighting | New York Post
  • Frequently Asked Questions - Infused Waters
  • NYC infused water factsheet
  • Food Safety 101: What Is Campylobacter (and What Are We Doing About It)? | NC State University
  • Shannon Majowicz on Twitter: “@bugcounter @barfblog @benjaminchapman Exactly - good risk reduction, so don’t ask, just do it!!”
  • Students Concerned About Food Safety, Options as HUDS Strike Drags On | News | The Harvard Crimson
  • Going public: The hepatitis A case that wasn’t
  • Health Department identifies bacteria in Mighty Taco’s refried beans - The Buffalo News
  • Pellegrino Foods
  • Making Sous Vide Simplify Work for You
  • Food Safety Talk 79: You’re Into Botulism Country (with Merlin Mann) — Food Safety Talk
  • Steve Jobs “BOOM” complete compilation (1992-2010)
  • Going public: Foody World Listeria edition
  • Pepper leads to esophageal hole

Food Safety Talk 110: Drumsticks and Cornettos

Added on October 13, 2016 by Don Schaffner.

This week's episode has some audio quality issues towards the end. Listen to find out why. As usual, here are show notes so you can follow along at home.

  • Beats by Dre
  • AirPods
  • Donald Trump Couldn’t Stop Sniffing ... Again
  • Official Toronto Blue Jays Website
  • New York Mets - Wikipedia
  • Licensed to Ill - Wikipedia
  • When the Power Is Out - When to Refreeze Frozen Food and When to Throw It Out | NC State University
  • Refrigerated Food and Power Outages: When to Save and When to Throw Out | FoodSafety.gov
  • Produce cannot safely be salvaged in flooded areas | Food Safety News
  • Safely Using Produce from Flooded Gardens, U Wisc.
  • 122 report illness after eating Mighty Taco refried beans
  • Growth of Clostridium perfringens during cooling of refried beans. - PubMed
  • Salmonella test prompts microgreens recall
  • Osage Gardens Inc. Recalls Osage Gardens Organic 2oz Micro Greens Because of Possible Health Risk
  • Nestlé recalls Drumstick cones after listeria test
  • Nestlé USA Initiates Voluntary Recall Of Nestlé Drumstick Club 16 Count Variety and 24 Count Vanilla Pack Due to Possible Health Risk
  • Nestlé Recall press release, Drumstick Variety Packs
  • Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy - Wikipedia
  • Super Troopers (2001)
  • Star Trek Beyond
  • Goodnights & Factory Restaurant
  • AMolecular Evidence of Oysters as Vehicle of Norovirus GII
  • Las Cruces, New Mexico - Wikipedia
  • Grateful Dead - El Paso - 6-26-94 - YouTube
  • I’m a Doctor. If I Drop Food on the Kitchen Floor, I Still Eat It
  • Dr. Oz Asks: Is Your Poop Normal or Not?
Tags Bluetooth, Power outage, Flooding, Refried beans, Salmonella, Micro Greens, Listeria, Ice cream, Cornetto, 5 second rule

Food Safety Talk 109: Pooped on an airplane

Added on October 5, 2016 by Ben Chapman.

Show notes so you can follow along at home:

  • Takin’ Care of Business
  • Food Safety Talk 108: Hyperbole and fire ants
  • Portlandia Season 6
  • Louis CK on airplane wifi
  • Back to Work
  • Longer Contact Times Increase Cross-Contamination of Enterobacter aerogenes from Surfaces to Food; Is the five-second rule real?
  • barfblog: 89 now sick with hep a what kind of trendy smoothie place gets their frozen strawberries from egypt
  • Multistate outbreak of hepatitis A linked to frozen strawberries
  • Getting Things Done
  • Meat and Poultry Inspection Dialogue
  • Genetic determinants of heat resistance in Escherichia coli
  • New York Times: ‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food on Floor Is Untrue, Study Finds
  • Rutgers Researchers Debunk ‘Five-Second Rule’: Eating Food off the Floor Isn’t Safe
  • Rutgers Open Access Policy & SOAR
  • Modeling the growth of Listeria monocytogenes on cut cantaloupe, honeydew and watermelon
  • Mr. Robot
  • wikipedia Five-second rule
  • Surface sanitation and microbiological food quality of a university foodservice operation
  • So Long Farewell

 

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