Risky or Not?

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of masked waiters touching your plate. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 The Lincoln Project on Twitter: "VOTER: Why can't we have a national mask mandate? TRUMP: Waiters. https://t.co/ivrYbewk0d" / Twitter Considerations for Restaurants and Bars | COVID-19 | CDC Community and Close Contact Exposures Associated with COVID-19 Amon...

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating salt cured egg yolks. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Cured Egg Yolks Recipe | Bon Appetit Salt Cured Egg Yolks Effect of sublethal heat stress on Salmonella Typhimurium virulence "salt cured" egg yolk - Google Scholar Evaluating the Risk of Contracting Salmonellosis from Egg Yolk 'Parmesan'Based on Water Activity

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of leaving ones facemask on the table in times of COVID-19. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ (3) Brian #SlowtheSpread Sauders, PhD 🛒🔬🦠🧫🧬☣️😷 on Twitter: "@bugcounter @tvaziri @benjaminchapman How about taking your mask off in a meeting and putting it on the conference room table; then putting it back on when you leave the meeting? Simi...

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating reboiled soup stored at room temperature. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Daring Fireball: Jason Kottke on Dean Allen Food Safety Talk 144: They Look and Taste Like Green Turds — Food Safety Talk Bending the Rules on Bacteria and Food Safety - The New York Times Tyndallization - Wikipedia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing butter at room temperature Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Exposure of Listeria monocytogenes within an epidemic caused by butter in Finland - ScienceDirect Viability of Pathogenic Organisms in Butter. Applied Dairy Microbiology, Second Edition - Google Books Can You Leave Butter Out? Food Safety During Power Outage...

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of refreezing butter. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Which Foods Can be Refrozen and Which Can't - UGA The Big Thaw

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of Ben's backyard (and front yard) poultry flock. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Backyard Poultry Flocks and Salmonellosis: A Recurring, Yet Preventable Public Health Challenge | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic Salmonella Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices: A Survey of Backyard Poultry Owners Residing in Seattle, Wash...

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of holding black coffee at room temperature all day. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Antibacterial activity of tea (Camellia sinensis) and coffee (Coffee arabica) with special reference to Salmonella typhimurium. - Abstract - Europe PMC Antibacterial Activity of Coffee Extracts and Selected Coffee Chemical Compounds against Ent...

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making or holding tea at room temperature. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Genmaicha - Wikipedia What You Should Know Before Sipping Your Next Batch of Sun Tea, According to a Food Microbiologist | News Break Health Relevance of the Presence of Fecal Coliforms in Iced Tea and Leaf Tea Herbal Tea recalled in Canada for Salmonella risk |...

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of sucking the air out of a meat bag Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Lakeside Refrigerated Services Recalls Beef Products due to Possible E.coli O157:H7 Contamination Food Safety Talk 79: You're Into Botulism Country (with Merlin Mann) — Food Safety Talk

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks or reusing reusing red onion pickling brine Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Quick Pickled Onions Recipe | Bon Appetit Outbreak Investigation of Salmonella Newport: Red Onions (July 2020) | FDA  

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of thawing frozen fish in vacuum packed bag Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/fsis-content/internet/main/topics/regulations/advisory-committees/nacmcf-reports/nacmcf-map-fishery-products Conservative Prediction of Time to Clostridium botulinum Toxin Formation for Use with Time-Temperature Indicators...

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of fermenting black garlic Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Black garlic - Wikipedia Black Garlic – food safety – Dr. Brian Nummer PhD

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating food stored in a delivery bag in a restroom. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 (12) JSmith on Twitter: "Risky or Not? @benjaminchapman @bugcounter https://t.co/n5mMp5MxKv" / Twitter Bathroom-stored grocery bag fingered in norovirus outbreak | CIDRAP

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating rice left in a waming rice cooker over night Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Neuro Fuzzy® Rice Cooker & Warmer NS-ZCC10/18 | Zojirushi.com Bacillus cereus - Wikipedia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cutting mold off hard cheese. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Formation of Aflatoxin in Cheddar Cheese by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus - ScienceDirect

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risk of methanol hand sanitizer. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ FDA updates on hand sanitizers consumers should not use | FDA Serious Adverse Health Events, Including Death, Associated with Ingesting Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers Containing Methanol — Arizona and New Mexico, May–June 2020 | MMWR 8 People in U.S. Have Died After Ingesting Hand S...

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using bar soap Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Washing with contaminated bar soap is unlikely to transfer bacteria

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating at a restaurant in times of COVID-19 Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Raleigh restaurant professionally cleaned after coronavirus patient ate there :: WRAL.com Considerations for Restaurants and Bars | COVID-19 | CDC

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from dried pig eat pet treats to pet owners. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella Infections Linked to Contact with Pig Ear Pet Treats | Outbreak of Salmonella Infections Linked to Pet Treats | July 2019 | Salmonella | CDC The Occurrence and Anti‐microbial Susceptibility of Salmonellae Isolated from...

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from vaping in light of recent CDC reports. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Update: Demographic, Product, and Substance-Use Characteristics of Hospitalized Patients in a Nationwide Outbreak of E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Useâ€"Associated Lung Injuries â€" United States, December 2019 | MMWR Outbreak of Lung Injury Associated with...

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the microbiological risks from puppies. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Outbreak of Multidrug-resistant Campylobacter Infections Linked to Contact with Pet Store Puppies | Multidrug-resistant Campylobacter Infections Linked to Contact with Pet Store Puppies | December 2019 | Campylobacter | CDC

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from the immunocompromised handling devices like iPhones. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ (2) Todd Vaziri on Twitter: “@bugcounter I have a friend with a kid who is in chemo, and is wondering what is the best way to sanitize iPhones and electronics? My initial thought is the glass/metal of a bare iPhone is relatively easy to cleanâ...

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from leaving your refrigerator open for two hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 (2) Justin on Twitter: “@bugcounter someone left the door to our fridge open since 12:00 or 12:30. It is now 2:00 when we discovered the open door and the thermometer reads 50 degrees. Throw out all the food, or shut the fridge door and continu...

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating five year old candy canes. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 (1) Julie Libarkin on Twitter: “I like candy canes as decorations this time of year. I save them - some are probably 5 years old. All in nice plastic. Very important question from someone not raised w candy canes: Can I still eat them? #candy” / Twitter Wa...