Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from cleaning refrigerator shelves using water only.

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• Domestic and Indoor Microbiology - ScienceDirect
• Surface Sanitation and Microbiological Food Quality of a University Foodservice Operation
• Domestic Refrigeration Practices with Emphasis on Hygiene: Analysis of a Survey and Consumer Recommendations - ScienceDirect
• Microbiological Safety of Domestic Refrigerators and the Dishcloths Used To Clean Them in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico - ScienceDirect

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating eggs recalled for Salmonella.

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• Eggs In B.C., Ont., Man., Recalled Over Salmonella Concerns - Canadian Manufacturing
• Eggs recalled in multiple provinces over salmonella concerns | CBC News
• Costco eggs recalled: Make sure they’re not still in your fridge
• FDA designates Costco egg notice as a Class I recall : NPR
• Investigation Update: Salmonella Outbreak, Eggs - September 2024 | Salmonella Infection | CDC
• Eggs recalled in Alberta, B.C., Ontario, over salmonella
• DeCosters lose appeal in Salmonella outbreak case | WATTAgNet | WATTPoultry.com
• HHS Lays Off All Full-Time Cruise Ship Health Inspectors Amid Illness Outbreaks: Report | HuffPost Latest News

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating peaches from big open jar of canned peaches kept at room temperature.

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• Conference for Food Protection
• #peachlady #peaches @Costco Wholesale | peach jar lady | TikTok
• Zalea Peaches. Any one have experience with them? : r/Costco
• McCullough recalls decades of food science work upon retirement from UGA-Griffin | University of Georgia Griffin Campus
• Pathogen Modeling Program (PMP) Online
• Further Studies on Development of Clostridium botulinum in Refrigerated Foods.
• Clemson pH Values of Common Foods and Ingredients
• Pruno - Wikipedia
• Peaches En Regalia - YouTube
• The Presidents of the United States of America – Peaches Lyrics | Genius Lyrics

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from reusing plastic drinking water jugs without washing.

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• Gregory Koch: “Me wearing my #RiskyOrNot no waffles shirt for Passover. @bugcounter.bsky.social @benjaminchapman.bsky.social” — Bluesky
• Quantifying the Influence of Relative Humidity, Temperature, and Diluent on the Survival and Growth of Enterobacter aerogenes - ScienceDirect
• Draft Genome Sequence for Klebsiella michiganensis B199A, Originally Identified as Enterobacter aerogenes | Microbiology Resource Announcements
• Matt Igo | LinkedIn
• Aqua North Carolina | Essential Utilities

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using a rusty can opener.

• Eat or Toss? Is it OK to eat?
• Rusty Linux: Advances in Rust for Linux Kernel Development | Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
• A microbial survey of food service can openers, food and beverage can tops and cleaning methodology effectiveness - Michaels - 2003 - Food Service Technology - Wiley Online Library
• The hygiene of slicing machines, carving knives and can-openers | Epidemiology & Infection | Cambridge Core
• The “Germiest” Items in the Kitchen – Savannah Valley District
• The importance of hygiene in modern society - ScienceDirect
• Clean the Germiest Home Items | NSF
• Clean the Germiest Kitchen Items | NSF
• John Roderick (musician) - Wikipedia
• Amazon.com: Chef Craft Select Can Opener with Tapper, 6.5 inches in length, Nickle Plated : Home & Kitchen
• Should I get another tetanus shot after seeing rusts in the can opener that I used? I got my tetanus shot last year, I was wondering if I need another one after possibly ingesting rust. Should I be concerned? - Quora
• You Don’t Get Tetanus From Rust | Discovery
• 310: Arc — Robot or Not? — Overcast
• Tomato sprouts INSIDE the tomato?

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Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating an apple bitten by stink bugs.

• Eat or Toss? Is it OK to eat?
• Dark, dented spots on apple?
• Fate of Escherichia coli O157:H7 on Fresh-Cut Apple Tissue and Its Potential for Transmission by Fruit Flies | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• 707. Eating Fruit That’s Been Bitten by a Bat — Risky or Not?
• Brown Marmorated Stink Bug | US EPA

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Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using re-usable straws.

• Eat or Toss? Is it OK to eat?
• 475. Bamboo Straw Used for Smoothies Without a Brush for Cleaning — Risky or Not?
• Food Safety Talk 33: Fresh Produce Punk Rock Hippieness — Food Safety Talk
• View of Do reusables pose greater infectious risks than disposables for consumer goods? A systematic literature review
• Guidance Document for the Safe Reuse of Containers | Conference-Developed Guides and Documents | Conference for Food Protection

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Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from reusing a hot chocolate milk spoon.

Keywords: Milk, Chocolate, Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus aureus

• Eat or Toss? Is it OK to eat?
• Time to B. cereus about hot chocolate - PMC
• Estimation of human dose of staphylococcal enterotoxin A from a large outbreak of staphylococcal food poisoning involving chocolate milk - ScienceDirect
• Understanding and Controlling Microbiological Contamination of Beverage Dispensers in University Foodservice Operations
• Profiling Bacillus cereus populations in a traditional style, hot-drinks vending machine and vended hot chocolate drink using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) techniques - ScienceDirect

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of re-heating leftovers indefinitely and the lasagna of Theseus.

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• Life Kit : NPR
• Theseus - Wikipedia
• Ship of Theseus - Wikipedia
• Tyndallization - Wikipedia
• How long do leftovers last? And other food safety questions, answered : Life Kit : NPR

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating frozen sliced liver from the last century.

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• I found this sliced liver from Safeways in my… - Military Aircraft | Facebook
• FSIS Chicken Liver Guidance
• Campylobacter spp. in New Zealand raw sheep liver and human campylobacteriosis cases - PubMed
• Forcemeat - Wikipedia