Okay, this is Ben writing, I know I have been delinquent in editing and posting Food Safety Talk episodes, you, the faithful listener are being rewarded with weekly episodes that were recorded over the past couple of months. Starting today we'll be releasing new food safety talk episodes every Wednesday for the next few weeks until we're caught up. We're on the road a couple of times over the next month or so (at the SQF Unites meeting next week in St. Louis and at the NACS Food Safety Forum in Chicago in April). In this episode Don and Ben get into things talking about Canadian pronunciations and Don's favorite other podcasts. They chat through an outbreak linked to a pasta ingredient used in lots of different prepared foods/dishes. They get into some infant formula food safety and do a bit of Risky or Not follow up and finish up talking about a cool podcast episode on a group of mystery illnesses in Ontario.
Show notes so you can follow along at home:
When People Got Sick: Prepared Meals Outbreak, September 2025 | Listeria Infection | CDC
Outbreak Investigation of Listeria monocytogenes: Prepared Pasta Meals (June 2025) | FDA
Kroger Voluntarily Recalls Two Varieties of Deli Pasta Salads Because of Possible Health Risk | FDA
Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Blue Bell Creameries Products| Listeria | CDC
Poisoning Outbreak: Aconite Poisoning at Markham, Ontario Restaurant - The Poison Lab
Calgon - “Ancient Chinese Secret, Huh?” (Commercial, 1982) - YouTube