Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating mett, fresh from a butcher. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ haroldina on X: “@bugcounter @benjaminchapman I interact with some Germans who are awfully excited about spreading raw pork on bread and calling it food. https://t.co/bKS6hM3SAB You did this with beef before, but is there some way to not risky just because “it’s fresh from a butcher”? https://t.co/tnuWlMPr5r” / X Mett - Wikipedia Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on micro...
Oct 04, 2023•12 min•Ep 519•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from attending 2023 Blue Ridge Rock Festival. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Blue Ridge Rock Festival Attendees Plagued by Gastrointestinal Illness – Rolling Stone What’s Going on With Blue Ridge Rock Fest? Venue Responds 512. Attending Burning Man 2023 — Risky or Not? Insane Clown Posse - Wikipedia Blue Ridge Rock Festival...
Oct 02, 2023•16 min•Ep 518•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating vegetables grown in soil from an abandoned septic tank. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Always Be Closing - Glengarry Glen Ross (2/10) Movie CLIP (1992) HD - YouTube 506. Kids on Lawns Irrigated With Water Containing Pathogenic E. coli — Risky or Not? Jimmy Hoffa - Wikipedia R.E.M. - Nightswimming (Official Music Video) [British Version] - YouTube Night soil - Wikipedia Sources of Pathogenic Microorganisms and The...
Sep 29, 2023•17 min•Ep 517•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking horchata made from uncooked rice. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 National Horchata Day - September 24, 2023 - National Today Horchata - Wikipedia Horchata (Cinnamon Rice Milk) Recipe Sieve Chant | Wisconsin Badgers .) “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” | Know Your Meme Poisoning sends 38 Mexican kindergarteners to hospital | CNN Horchata | SpringerLink Thermal and non-thermal preservation techniques of tiger nuts’ bev...
Sep 27, 2023•17 min•Ep 516•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from foaming watermelon. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Patrick Quade on X: “@benjaminchapman @bugcounter👋 Foaming, exploding watermelons, could be a good risky or not? It’s blowing up on social media rn (had to). https://t.co/uc5J4jpfrP https://t.co/TBOSopy1e0” / X Why Are Watermelons Exploding or Foaming? Stephen Reiners | CALS Outbreaks Associated with Cantaloupe, Watermelon, and Honeydew in the United States, 1973–2011 ...
Sep 25, 2023•10 min•Ep 515•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating a tomato off of a plant that grew from a seed that went through sewage treatment. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Marie on X: “@neorsd Okay I think this has to be asked @benjaminchapman @bugcounter I’m thinking the canonical question would be something like “eating a tomato off of a plant that grew from a seed that went through sewage treatment. #riskyornot ?” 💩 🍅” / X Internalization of Bacterial Pathogens in T...
Sep 22, 2023•13 min•Ep 514•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of soda from soda dispenser that just harbored 12 flies. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ OB Cycler on X: “@alextwenzel question for risky or not @bugcounter @benjaminchapman ?” / X Coca-Cola Freestyle Home Page Pests We Treat - Dirty Soda Machine Causes Causes Fruit Fly Infestation in Morganville, NJ Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Tiny little bugs Soda Gun Gets Infested with Fruit Flies - YouTube Surface Sanitation and Microbiological Food Qua...
Sep 20, 2023•13 min•Ep 513•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of attending Burning Man 2023. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Extremely online - Wikipedia Burning Man Burning Man - Wikipedia Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Fyre Festival - Wikipedia False claim Ebola outbreak reported at Burning Man | Fact check Burning Man 2023: Bay Area doctor urging attendees to wash off mud as soon as possible to avoid skin infections - ABC7 New York Hundreds of Tough Mudder racers infected by rugged, na...
Sep 18, 2023•15 min•Ep 512•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of travelling on a plane with diarrhea in the aisle for 2 hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Joe Rogan - Wikipedia Passengers onboard diarrhea plane share ordeal Delta Flight Emergency From Passenger’s Diarrhea: What Happened? Food Safety Talk 37: Inoculating the Plane — Food Safety Talk Where does A/C abbreviation for aircraft come from? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange Diarrhea and vomit seats: Why planes are e...
Sep 15, 2023•20 min•Ep 511•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking kombucha which is diluted gradually over time. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Kombucha, Kefir, Coconut Yogurt, Adaptogenic Tea SYNERGY Raw Kombucha | GT’s Living Foods
Sep 13, 2023•11 min•Ep 510•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks posed by having nonalcoholic beer on tap. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Sage on X: “@OlympicTavern Risky or Not, @bugcounter @benjaminchapman?” / X Growth and Survival of Foodborne Pathogens in Beer - ScienceDirect Survival of Foodborne Pathogenic Bacteria (Bacillus cereus, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus, and Listeria monocytogenes) and Bacillus cereus Spores in Ferm...
Sep 11, 2023•16 min•Ep 509•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of microorganisms on watch wrist bands. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 What are the Scout Oath and Scout Law? | Boy Scouts of America Robot or Not | The Incomparable Wiki | Fandom Daring Fireball: Watch Bands Get Dirty, Headlines Get Clickbaity Prevalence and Disinfection of Bacteria Associated with Various Types of Wristbands Advances in Infectious Diseases Citefactor.org-Journal|Research Paper|Indexing|Impact factor List o...
Sep 08, 2023•17 min•Ep 508•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of mozzarella and Gouda cheese left in the rain for four hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Fresh Mozzarella Ball | Galbani Cheese Amazon.com: 365 by Whole Foods Market, Mozzarella Bar, 16 Ounce : Grocery & Gourmet Food Storage Temperatures Necessary to Maintain Cheese Safety - International Association for Food Protection...
Sep 06, 2023•11 min•Ep 507•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of letting your kids play on a lawn 24 hours after that lawn has been irrigated with water containing pathogenic E. coli Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Justin Ekins on X: “@benjaminchapman @bugcounter would it be #RiskyOrNot if my kids played on the lawn watered by this E. Coli contaminated water 24 hours after shutting off the sprinklers? https://t.co/5CKbLVELOd” / X More E. coli cases appear in Lehi; city taking steps to treat irrigat...
Sep 04, 2023•14 min•Ep 506•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing avocados in water in your refrigerator. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ (updated) Guacamole - Wikipedia Research Triangle Park | Where People + Ideas Converge neil chazin on X: “@bugcounter @benjaminchapman is this actually risky at fridge temps (assuming your fridge is set properly)? https://t.co/J0dkvx3JnG” / X Avocado in Water Storage ‘Hack’ Isn’t Safe. Here’s What to Do Instead Internalization of Listeria monocytogen...
Sep 01, 2023•19 min•Ep 505•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks posed by the avocado cutting machine known as the Autocado. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Lee Katz @lskatz@mstdn.science on X: “@benjaminchapman @bugcounter introducing the autocado, a new avocado cutting machine. #riskyornot? I feel like it would be risky unless there is a really good plan to clean it. Thinking of this FDA report too with all the contamination on the rinds. https://t.co/Fi0BDfDInv” / X Meet Chipotle’s New ...
Aug 30, 2023•12 min•Ep 504•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cracking an egg on your kids head. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 I know you have covered raw eggs many times on RoN - Twitter Search / X Egg crack😂 #eggcrack #eggprank #funny #baby #kid #kids #babies #fun #… | egg cracking prank | TikTok Risk Assessment for Salmonella Enteritidis in Eggs and Egg Products | Food Safety and Inspection Service...
Aug 28, 2023•9 min•Ep 503•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks eating food from the refrigerator when the power has been out for 40 hours. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Food Safety During Power Outage | FoodSafety.gov Emergency Action Plan for Retail Food Establishment | Conference-Developed Guides and Documents | Conference for Food Protection Ben Chapman on X: “@cathybrigham Do you have a thermometer to check the temp of foods? I’d say that by tomorrow the cooked food leftovers will be risky by ...
Aug 25, 2023•12 min•Ep 502•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of picking your nose with respect to COVID-19 and other risks. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Why not to pick your nose: Association between nose picking and SARS-CoV-2 incidence, a cohort study in hospital health care workers | PLOS ONE TWiV 1034: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin | This Week in Virology Nose Picking and Nasal Carriage of Staphylococcus aureus | Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology | Cambridge Co...
Aug 23, 2023•16 min•Ep 501•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cooking raw chicken in a rice cooker. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Need an Idea for Easy Meal Prep? Make Dinner in Your Rice Cooker. - Eater I’m all about low effort dishes that taste amazing.. and this is one o… | Rice Cooker Recipes | TikTok 31: Rice Left in a Warming Rice Cooker Over Night — Risky or Not? USDA FSIS Appendix A Veronica (@squirrelchomp) / X Chicken Dry Curry | Zojirushi.com Rice Cooker Chicken and Soy ...
Aug 21, 2023•12 min•Ep 500•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cooking raw chicken in a rice cooker. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Need an Idea for Easy Meal Prep? Make Dinner in Your Rice Cooker. - Eater I’m all about low effort dishes that taste amazing.. and this is one o… | Rice Cooker Recipes | TikTok 31: Rice Left in a Warming Rice Cooker Over Night — Risky or Not? USDA FSIS Appendix A Veronica (@squirrelchomp) / X Chicken Dry Curry | Zojirushi.com Rice Cooker Chicken and Soy ...
Aug 18, 2023•23 min•Ep 499•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming canned chicken noodle soup without heating. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Bon Vivant Voluntarily Recalls All Vichyssoise From Dealers - The New York Times Acidified and Low-Acid Food Regulatory Requirements Better Process Control School - Consumer Brands Association Botulism Associated with Commercially Canned Chili Sauce — Texas and Indiana, July 2007 Marie Antoinette - Wikipedia...
Aug 16, 2023•12 min•Ep 498•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming heavy cream from an unopened carton almost 3 weeks past it’s expiration date. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 🇺🇸 Bobby Blue Byrd 🇺🇦 on Twitter: "@pdnell @gastropoda What say you @bugcounter @benjaminchapman ? https://t.co/G4RrFHGOIN" / X Short communication: Bacterial ecology of high-temperature, short-time pasteurized milk processed in the United States - ScienceDirect Sudden Death of a Young Adult Associate...
Aug 14, 2023•11 min•Ep 497•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of blanching corn in the dishwasher prior to freezing. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 HAPPY IN HORTON: this may sound “CORNY” to you…. Food Safety Talk 198: Very Old Molasses (with Rachael Jackson) — Food Safety Talk Safety Data Sheet Jet Dry NTP Technical Report on the Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies of Technical Grade Sodium Xylenesulfonate Microwave Corn on the Cob in Husk - No Messy Silk! - The Dinner-Mom...
Aug 11, 2023•15 min•Ep 496•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making porridge with frozen berries in the microwave. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 122. Frozen Berry Smoothies — Risky or Not? Estimation of Bacteriophage MS2 Inactivation Parameters During Microwave Heating of Frozen Strawberries - ScienceDirect...
Aug 09, 2023•11 min•Ep 495•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from wearing gloves without washing your hands first. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Glove Barriers to Bacterial Cross-Contamination between Hands to Food - ScienceDirect Evaluation of glove type on survival and transfer of Escherichia coli in model systems and during hand harvesting of lettuce - Zhao - 2021 - JSFA reports - Wiley Online Library Scientific Evidence Supports the Use of Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers as an Effe...
Aug 07, 2023•15 min•Ep 494•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from visting a fish market. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: “Visiting a fish market, #RiskyorNot @benjaminchapman?” / X 290. Yeeting a Real Fish Into a Crowd — Risky or Not? Best in Show (4/11) Movie CLIP - Naming Nuts (2000) HD - YouTube...
Aug 04, 2023•9 min•Ep 493•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from making a baked potato in a slow cooker without added water. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Carnac the Magnificent - Wikipedia Food Talk, UGA SNAP-Ed on Twitter: “Easily make slow-cooker baked potatoes, no water needed. 1. clean potato, 2. Season with olive oil, salt, and pepper, 3. Place potatoes on LOW for 6-8 hours or on HIGH for 4 hours. Add chives and greek yogurt (a low-fat, high-protein substitute for sour cream)....
Aug 02, 2023•14 min•Ep 492•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from cooking potatoes cooked in a smoker. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Tastee Sub Shop · Apple Maps Tastee Freez - The Original Soft Serve Ice Cream What was the Double E Warren Zevon referred to? Large Outbreak of Botulism: The Hazardous Baked Potato | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic Restaurant-Associated Type a Botulism: Transmission by Potato Salad | American Journal of Epidemiology | Oxford Academi...
Jul 31, 2023•13 min•Ep 491•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating pizza made from refrigerated thawed frozen pizza dough stored for at least 2 weeks in the fridge. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Validation of baking as a kill-step for controlling Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli during traditional crust pizza baking process - PMC Frozen pizza suspected in 10-state E coli outbreak | CIDRAP Investigation of Outbreak of Human Infections Caused by E. coli O157:H7 | E. coli CDC ...
Jul 28, 2023•9 min•Ep 490•Transcript available on Metacast 
