Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating from a bag of popcorn that a sports team mascot has touched with their costumed hand.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• High Point Rockers | Baseball Team | Mascot HYPE
• High Point Rockers Mascot on Facebook
• Salmonella Oranienburg Isolated from Horses, Wild Turkeys and An Edible Home Garden Fertilized with Raw Horse Manure - Jay‐Russell - 2014 - Zoonoses and Public Health - Wiley Online Library
• An analysis of human pathogens found in horse/mule manure along the John Muir Trail in Kings Canyon and Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks - PubMed

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from licking a fake cupcake that has been repeatedly tossed into an inflatable donut on an astroturf field.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Max Changes Name Back to HBO Max
• High Point Rockers | Baseball Team
• 686. Eating an Egg Fried on Astroturf — Risky or Not?
• “TOXIC TURF” — Safe Healthy Playing Fields
• Toxicity/Carcinogens — Safe Healthy Playing Fields
• Keyboard Maestro 11.0.4: Work Faster with Macros for macOS
• Make A Date for Keyboard Maestro - BrettTerpstra.com
• Liars - Saturday Night Live - YouTube
• In My Mind on X: ““Mmm…. Donuts.” - Homer Simpson https://t.co/MTIO4S4woE” / X

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming 5-year-old homemade vanilla extract as shown on reddit.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Forgot I made this vanilla extract 5 years ago. Still good? : r/Baking
• Mold on Vanilla Beans - Moldy Vanilla or Bean Crystals Vanillin Crystals? | Madagascar Vanilla Company
• How To Say Vanillin - YouTube
• Control of food spoilage fungi by ethanol - ScienceDirect
• How to Make Vanilla Extract from Vanilla Beans (Homemade Vanilla) – Vanilla Bean Kings

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from a jar of mayonnaise that was opened and then accidentally left at room temperature for less than a week

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Microbiological Safety of Mayonnaise, Salad Dressings, and Sauces Produced in the United States: A Review - ScienceDirect
• Review: Fate of pathogens in home-made mayonnaise and related products - ScienceDirect
• An Assessment of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Contamination Risks in Commercial Mayonnaise from Pasteurized Eggs and Environmental Sources, and Behavior in Low-pH Dressings - ScienceDirect
• A Review of Temperature, pH, and Other Factors that Influence the Survival of Salmonella in Mayonnaise and Other Raw Egg Products
• Models for the Inactivation of Foodborne Pathogens in Salad Dressing from Challenge Studies - ScienceDirect
• Mayonnaise - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
• Independent Writer, Speaker, and Broadcaster - Merlin Mann

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from never washing your salad spinner with soap and water.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼  Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• What are Pencil Crayons? | Answered | K-5 Teaching Resources
• Biosafety Challenges for the Food Microbiology Laboratory - Montville - 2012 - Journal of Food Safety - Wiley Online Library
• Federal Indifference to Laboratory-Acquired Infections
• 230. Un-cleanable Salad Spinners — Risky or Not?
• Performance of a manually operated salad spinner centrifuge for serum separation in the healthy domestic horse (Equus caballus) and southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) - Cassady - 2023 - Veterinary Clinical Pathology - Wiley Online Library
• Observations of Consumer Salad Preparation

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating fried chicken from a from a public restroom in a state park that has been converted into a restaurant.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Belle Isle - The Chicken Coupe
• Instagram - Chicken Coupe 1
• Instagram - Chicken Coupe 2
• Shared album - Dante Vozza - Google Photos - old
• Shared album - Dante Vozza - Google Photos - new
• N.C. Department of Health & Human Services Division of Public Health / Environmental Health Section / Plan Review Unit Food Establishment Plan Review Application
• Chicken Coupe Chicken & Waffles | Detroit Restaurant Inspections
• Violation Types | Washtenaw County, MI - Official Website

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from grapes grown at the intersection of two 4 lane highways.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Risks Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution in Roadside Soil and Vegetation of National Highway Crossing through Industrial Area | Environmental Processes
• Effect of a Highway’s Traffic on the Level of Lead and Cadmium in Fruits and Vegetables Grown Along the Roadsides - Igwegbe - 1992 - Journal of Food Safety - Wiley Online Library
• Lead in soils and plants: its relation to traffic volume and proximity to highways | Environmental Science & Technology
• Contamination of agricultural soil by urban and peri-urban highways: An overlooked priority? - ScienceDirect
• Risks Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution in Roadside Soil and Vegetation of National Highway Crossing through Industrial Area | Environmental Processes
• Captured Water, Carbon Dioxide From Car Exhaust Could Help Grow Food – Texas A&M Stories
• I live right off of a busy freeway - it safe to consume garden produce? : r/UrbanGardening
• How Safe is it, Really, to Eat Food Grown in an Urban Garden? - Modern Farmer
• Chemical Contamination Pathways and the Food Safety Implications along the Various Stages of Food Production: A Review - PMC

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating homemade chimichurri left at room temp for months.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• FPT Nummer et al
• Kimchi - Wikipedia
• Chimichanga - Wikipedia
• Modelling the pH of mayonnaise by the ratio of egg to vinegar - ScienceDirect

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating mechanically tenderize steak medium rare. You might want to listen to the end... no really, the real end.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Mechanically Tenderized Beef | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• 778. Out of Date Simpson’s Ham — Risky or Not?
• Assessment of Risk Communication about Undercooked Hamburgers by Restaurant Servers - PubMed
• Thermal Inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Blade-Tenderized Beef Steaks Cooked on a Commercial Open-Flame Gas Grill - ScienceDirect
• ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
• Beef Retailers Now Labeling Mechanically Tenderized Beef | Home
• 2010 Food code Issue III 010 attachment
• Consumer Response to Mechanically Tenderized Beef (MTB) and MTB Labels: An Exploratory Focus Group Study - ScienceDirect
• Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infections Linked to Mechanically Tenderized Beef and the Largest Beef Recall in Canada, 2012 - ScienceDirect

And here are two articles that Don found later.

• Findings of the Health Risk Assessment of Escherichia coli 0157 in Mechanically Tenderized Beef Products in Canada
• Comparative Risk Assessment for Intact (Non-Tenderized) and Non-Intact (Tenderized) Beef: Technical Report

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from homemade Dubai chocolate.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Dubai chocolate - Wikipedia
• Kadayif - Wikipedia
• Tahini - Wikipedia
• Filofax – Filofax US
• (PDF) Moisture adsorption characteristics of pistachio nut cream: A new food product
• How to Make Pistachio Cream at Home - YouTube
• MOISTURE ADSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS OF PISTACHIO NUT CREAM: A NEW FOOD PRODUCT - ProQuest
• Knafeh - Wikipedia
• Tests at Dubai chocolates expose consumer deception - ZDFheute
• Dubai chocolate: What’s behind the social media trend - ZDFheute