Food Safety Talk

Food Safety Talk episodes:

• 05.15.2024

  Food Safety Talk 304: Hit The Groove For Me

  The guys start the episode talking about their pets and get a bit into the world of productivity. Don tells Ben about watching Shogun and then they get into some feedback and talk about some of the interesting offers they...

  
• 04.24.2024

  Food Safety Talk 303: Three Turntables And A Microphone

  In this somewhat short episode the guys start talking about email addresses getting claimed away from Apple and their semi-hard outs. The guys go on to play a game of twelve unexpected ways you can get food poisoning (and Don lost...

  
• 03.19.2024

  Food Safety Talk 302: That's Kroc With A 'K'

  This was a shorter one with the guys having some scheduling issues. The episode opens with Don and Ben talking about The guys go on to talk about how they are probably cleaning their water bottles incorrectly, according to...

  
• 03.06.2024

  Food Safety Talk 301: Flockhart Foyer

  Ben and Don start the episode with various topics ranging from notable alumni of Rutgers and Enloe High School in Raleigh to productivity/Getting Things Done. The food safety conversation moves to lead contaminated cinnamon in applesauce and a great New...

  
• 02.09.2024

  Food Safety Talk 300: The Pat Venditte Rule

  Don and Ben start the show talking about some recent guest pitches they've received (and a what sounds like a fun fusion restaurant). They go on to talk about watching Astrid and Curb Your Enthusiasm and get into the food...

  
• 01.30.2024

  Food Safety Talk 299: Sweatin' To The N00bs

  Don and Ben start the conversation with the inevitable audio issues (it's not a bit) and after a diversion to the origin of Bluetooth, the issue gets traced to Don's wiring. Ben starts the non-food safety portion talking about The...

  
• 01.09.2024

  Food Safety Talk 298: Stop Dumping In My Tubes

  The show starts with Ben's relief due to not having to manage hockey viewing and other schedule conflicts. The guys talk about the rising success of a vegan meat company and the challenges going from a concept to a growing...

  
• 01.03.2024

  Food Safety Talk 297: Bumps Bleeps Blorps

  The show starts with a discussion on Zoom-ready rooms, technology issues between Apple and non-Apple things and the great folks who help us all say, "it just works." The guys talk about holiday entertainment viewing and their favorite episodes and...

  
• 12.31.2023

  Food Safety Talk 296: Speaks Like An Ordinary Guy

  The show opens with Ben figuring out that he's been using his microphone incorrectly for a while (like 100 shows). It's fixed now. The guys go on to talk about their travel packing and entertainment choices. Ben brings a question...

  
• 12.04.2023

  Food Safety Talk 295: No Spray, Jerry!

  Ben and Don start the podcast talking about the mystery of Ben's microphone and audio quality. They go on to talk about Ben's current and Don's previous participation the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods. The conversation goes...

  
• 11.02.2023

  Food Safety Talk 294: I'm On Jesse Ventura

  The show starts a whole lot about Apple products and operating systems, cords, cord management and Amazon ordering. Ben and Don then do a little bit of Department Head/Chair talk about pandemic-influenced work styles and get back into each others...

  
• 10.17.2023

  Food Safety Talk 293: Norwegian For Horchata

  The guys start the conversation with a video tour of their office spaces, which includes a litany of improperly canned foods (in Ben's office) and a cool microscope (Don's office). They talk about concerts, Don's son's wedding and Jury Duty....

  
• 09.26.2023

  Food Safety Talk 292: Does Anyone Remember Leftovers?

  Don and Ben start the show jumping into things revisiting the devastating and huge E. coli O157 outbreak linked to a number of Calgary daycare settings. Ben talks about his trip to Portland for WAFDO and Don talks about his...

  
• 09.21.2023

  Food Safety Talk 291: The Points Don't Matter

  The guys start the show talking about glasses and another one of Ben's weird health situations. The requisite warmup of stuff both Ben and Don have been doing/watching leads to a discussion on Don's productivity changes. They then talk about...

  
• 09.05.2023

  Food Safety Talk 290: Problem With Their Smeller

  The show starts with some corporate speak lessons and a discussion on the Canadian phenomenon of paying for weddings that you don't go to. The guys talk about driver's ed and some shows. The conversation goes to the Netflix documentary,...

  
• 08.15.2023

  Food Safety Talk 289: PEE-hack

  Don and Ben are back from IAFP and other trips and get things started talking about famous quotes related to New Jersey and North Carolina and Ben's rafting trip to West Virginia. They talk about some department head/chair things and...

  
• 08.04.2023

  Food Safety Talk 288: You Can Bring Your Own Shoe

  In their annual in-person live to tape Food Safety Talk recording from an undisclosed IAFP meeting room, the guys talk about their IAFP meeting experiences, good sessions they had been too and a few food safety outbreaks. The conversation shifts...

  
• 07.28.2023

  Food Safety Talk 287: Rotisserie Chicken Blowouts (Live From IAFP 2023)

  Don and Ben were invited to speak at a breakfast meeting of the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Science (IAFNS) as part of IAFP 2023. The audio isn't fantastic, but here's the episode they recorded. They gave...

  
• 07.12.2023

  Food Safety Talk 286: Duck Race at 12 Noon

  The guys are back at it again and start with personal hygiene habits and mesothelioma. They talk about 4th of July festivities and then jump into food safety with a discussion of the Poisoned documentary trailer. The discussion goes to...

  
• 07.09.2023

  Food Safety Talk 285: Meat Probe, Meatwad, Meathead

  Don has returned from his sojourn in Japan and the guys jump right into things talking about some of the stuff Ben is watching with his kids. The guys talk about a couple of folks who meant a lot to...

  
• 06.30.2023

  Food Safety Talk 284: Live from AFDO with guests Jessica Badour and Adam Inman

  This episode was recorded live at the Association of Food And Drug Officials (AFDO) annual educational conference, held in June 2023 in Norfolk, VA. Don galavanting across the world in Japan so Ben is joined by fantastic pitch-hitting guests Jessica...

  
• 06.15.2023

  Food Safety Talk 283: 283 Tylenols

  The guys jump right into the food safety on this one by talking about a new paper investigating the causative agent linked to Daily Harvest's/tara flour outbreak and FDA's Center for Natural Products Research. The guys then go into some...

  
• 06.02.2023

  Food Safety Talk 282: The Fabulous Ms. Mertzel

  The show starts with the guys talking about Ben's Internet situation, Don introduces a new show concept: Department Head Chair Talk and then teases new Food Safety Talk t-shirts. The conversation goes to then goes to couple of talks that...

  
• 05.22.2023

  Food Safety Talk 281: Artisanal Poultry Manure

  The show starts with a discussion of Ben's front yard chickens (including some new additions) and managing the animals both Don and Ben's houses. They go on to talk about agritourism and food safety risks. The guys then talk about...

  
• 04.05.2023

  Food Safety Talk 280: Drupelet

  The episode starts with the guys talking about hockey documentaries (okay, it was just Ben) and cannabis food safety laws. Then the conversation goes to the Conference for Food Protection where the guys talk about the recent educational program webinars...

  
• 03.29.2023

  Food Safety Talk 279: Jenny Might Be Using AI

  The show starts with a discussion of the types of drinks the guys have been enjoying recently, and then the conversation switches to their recent travel itineraries to Brazil and Michigan. Don and Ben talk about airplane travel viewing and...

  
• 03.06.2023

  Food Safety Talk 278: Seemingly Unrelated Movies

  Ben and Don start the show talking about some British panel shows but quickly get into the world of food safety through a Toronto health inspector story from the 1980s. Ben goes on to tell Don about his interactions with...

  
• 02.28.2023

  Food Safety Talk 277: Safe As It Ever Was

  Don and Ben start the conversation with their reflections on Frank Yiannas' resignation and FDA's restructuring. They also talk about the passing of their IAFP friend Paul Hall. Don gives Ben an early birthday present and then they really get...

  
• 02.20.2023

  Food Safety Talk 276: Landlord Yelp

  Don and Ben open the episode talking about internet things, shadow networks and how many things are on the pipe. The get into food safety by talking by their collaborative work that has made contaminated spice jars all the rage....

  
• 01.25.2023

  Food Safety Talk 275: We Can Pickle That!

  The show starts with a discussion about a wide variety of seemingly unrelated music including Men at Work, Burt Bacharach, Sting and school musicals before shifting to a quick chat about fun Netflix movies. The guys move into actual food...

  
• 12.24.2022

  Food Safety Talk 274: My Turkey Named Ham

  The show starts with a discussion of Ben's new podcasting space that is equipped with a bed and an actual working executive office. The guys get to actual food safety topics somewhat quicker than normal, chatting about Thanksgiving preparation, thawing...

  
• 11.28.2022

  Food Safety Talk 273: 50 or 70 School Buses

  The guys are joined by special mystery guest Kaitlyn Casulli and assistant professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Georgia. The group talks about what being a new faculty member is like and how...

  
• 10.24.2022

  Food Safety Talk 272: Well Intentioned Nerds Protecting Us

  Don and Ben are joined by mystery guest Matt Haughey of Metafilter, Ask Metafilter, Slack and Salesforce (and many other Internet things). The guys talk through a variety of topics including podcasting, common podcast friends and social media stuff. They...

  
• 10.19.2022

  Food Safety Talk 271: Low Rise 7

  The conversation starts with the guys going through a little bit of nostalgia for the dorms they stayed in when they were in college including architecture and the various amenities each of their housing situations afforded them. The conversation then...

  
• 10.09.2022

  Food Safety Talk 270: Giving My Readers Botulism

  Don and Ben are joined by Hanna Raskin, from The Food Section, which has an amazing tagline: "Covering food and drink across the American South as though it mattered as much as crime and politics (because it does)." After a...

  
• 08.30.2022

  Food Safety Talk 269: The Daves We Don't Know

  After taking a month-long hiatus from Food Safety Talk while Ben was in Canada with no Internet the guys are back at it. The conversation starts on electronic workplace productivity surveillance and how that doesn't really work in the academic...

  
• 08.03.2022

  Food Safety Talk 268: Add A Catchy Header

  This is the Live From IAFP Special, where Don and Ben get together in person for their yearly event with listeners from around the world. The show starts with a discussion of the cool things they've seen (and some of...

  
• 07.27.2022

  Food Safety Talk 267: Tara.Freezer.Olaf

  The episode begins on Ben's fascination with the Mac OS dark mode and Don's email rules. Ben tells Don about his food safety happenings while on vacation, including using a massive turkey thermometer. The guys talk about complications around information...

  
• 07.11.2022

  Food Safety Talk 266: Can The Rancid Hurt You?

  The show starts with Don's smoke detectors going off (and listen to the after show for how that got resolved) and Ben yet again relying on Don to be his therapist. The guys talk about stuff they are watching including...

  
• 07.01.2022

  Food Safety Talk 265: Pantheon Of Papers

  The guys start this episode talking about TikTok dances, and that is Don's founding member of Ithacon. The conversation goes on to Daily Harvest supplied lentil and leek crumble-linked illnesses. They do a deep dive on what might be...

  
• 06.16.2022

  Food Safety Talk 264: Live From AFDO

  Don and Ben head to Phoenix (Glendale really) for a road trip and record this episode in front of about 200 attendees of the 126th Association of Food and Drug Officials' Annual Educational Conference. The guys talk about a local...

  
• 06.01.2022

  Food Safety Talk 263: Faraday Cage For The Voice

  The episode starts with a discussion of a couple of documentaries that Ben recently watched and Don lends his recommendation of the Time Traveler's Wife (the series, not the film). Ben talks about his recent running experience and then the...

  
• 05.23.2022

  Food Safety Talk 262: Settle Down Sparky

  The episode starts with some follow-up discussion about Lucky Charms and FDA's investigation into the cereal's connection unknown illnesses. The guys talk about crisis communication responses with a call back to benzene in Perrier. Don and Ben do some listener...

  
• 05.11.2022

  Food Safety Talk 261: TEAMS Is Dog Poop

  Don and Ben start the episode on Ben's basketball and Beastie Boys experiences. The guys go on to Ben's Pie in the Sky homework and talk about how health inspectors are portrayed in popular culture. The conversation goes to soap...

  
• 04.20.2022

  Food Safety Talk 260: Salad Bar Adjacent

  Don and Ben start the episode talking about podcasting background sounds like birds and stuff they are watching.The conversation goes to a new paper that Ben's group had published on the impacts (and the turns outs) of consumers washing poultry...

  
• 04.04.2022

  Food Safety Talk 259: No Bill, You Pay Us

  The guys are joined by friend of the show and food safety lawyer Bill Marler, for his second time on the show (but first in 8 years). The group talks about food safety advocacy, how the civil legal system supports...

  
• 03.25.2022

  Food Safety Talk 258: Vegan Ponytail Extensions

  Don and Ben start the episode talking about all the things they are watching and listening to including (obviously) British streaming shows (and not obviously) Canadian indie rock radio. The food safety really gets started with a deep dive on...

  
• 03.16.2022

  Food Safety Talk 257: Pitmaster General

  Don and Ben start the episode talking about fitness, weight loss and the benefit of tracking things. They shift gears to some feedback and in-depth discussion on a recent New England Journal of Medicine article about an individual's meningococcal infection...

  
• 03.02.2022

  Food Safety Talk 256: Phage 36

  In this super mega pod Don and Ben are joined by another special guest, but this time it's Don who has to do the guessing. Larry Goodridge from the University of Guelph, one of Ben's oldest food safety friends joins...

  
• 02.13.2022

  Food Safety Talk 255: Crunchy Granola Hippie Town

  This episode starts with a the always hilarious uncomfortable bit of 20 questions Ben guessing the identity of a special guest. This episode's special guest is Jess Tang, who Don knows from Discord. The conversation starts with Jess' experience as...