Don't Eat Poop! A Food Safety Podcast

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. A janitorial contractor forged IDs for 336 of his 353 workers, and two dozen of them were children as young as 13, cleaning industrial equipment inside a...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. Rick Biros, founder of Food Safety Tech and the Food Safety Consortium, is back with our hosts Matt and Francine to make the case that food safety needs a...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. The FIFA World Cup is coming to Atlanta, and with it, up to 10 million visitors, thousands of temporary food vendors, and a food safety infrastructure tha...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. The federal government has a plan to overhaul how food chemicals are regulated in America, but the states got there first. In Episode 171 of Don't Eat Poo...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. Most conferences just recycle the same speakers on the same topics every year. Food Safety Consortium is trying to do something different, and the process...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. Food safety failures don’t always start with massive outbreaks or nationwide recalls. Sometimes, they start with a bowl of homemade gumbo sitting in a gro...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine dive headfirst into one of the strangest raw milk controversies they’ve seen yet: a Florid...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. Another cantaloupe recall. Another round of questions about why the food industry keeps making the same mistakes — and whether the tools to fix them are a...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. If you thought chicken was the “safe” option on the menu, this episode of Don’t Eat Poop! might ruffle your feathers.  Matt and Francine dig into a bizarr...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. What do mangoes, government redactions, and conspiracy-level blacked-out reports have in common?  In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, Matt and Francine pe...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. What happens when your sweet treat doubles as a pharmaceutical experiment?  In this wildly bizarre (but very real) episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts M...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. In this eye-opening (and slightly stomach-turning) episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine dive headfirst into a real-life case of botulis...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. If you’ve ever been tempted by homemade dumplings on Facebook Marketplace or the viral “pink sauce” on TikTok, this episode might make you pause mid-scrol...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine welcome industry veteran Rick Biros to talk about 15 years of Food Safety Tech and the Foo...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine dig into the rising trend of edible insects and lab-grown meat, and what it means for food...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. If your fridge could talk, would it confess to crimes against food safety?  In this hilariously relatable episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and F...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. Food safety regulations can sometimes feel like a bureaucratic maze, but behind the scenes, regulators, inspectors, and food businesses are all trying to...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine sit down with leadership powerhouse Tia Glave, co-founder of Catalyst Food Leaders, to dis...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are discussing Francine's favorite virus: Norovirus.  It's no surprise this foodborne illn...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are celebrating the podcast's 3 Year Anniversary with a blast from the past: the salmon in...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are highlighting Azure Edwards's latest opinion piece on Food Safety News, "The food indus...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are taking a detour from food poisoning to actual poison in food.  Our hosts hadn't done a...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are talking about some very high, but also very preventable, costs: those resulting from f...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are back from their quick holiday break and are ready to tackle the brand-new 2026 food py...

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are joined by produce safety veteran Humberto Maldonado, the Director of Safety and Compli...