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Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating pasta sauce made with a cursed baseball. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼  Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Left Field | MLB.com: News Curse of the Billy Goat - Wikipedia This 3,200 Year Old Egyptian Cheese Is Cursed With a Deadly Pathogen Steve Bartman incident - Wikipedia (20+) Chicago Cubs HQ | Someone dressed up Steve Bartman | Facebook These 11 major leaguers don't wear batting gloves, preferring to grin and 'bare' it | FOX Sports Moisés Chiullán

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from placing a baby in a pumpkin. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 halloween - Risky or Not? Ma Nishtana - Wikipedia Facebook post Doctors warn pumpkin patches could pose salmonella risk, especially for young children | Local News | local3news.com Eurosurveillance | Nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis linked to consumption of pumpkin seeds, France, 2026 Survival of Salmonella during Production of Partially Sprouted Pumpkin, Sunflower, and Chia Seeds Dried for Direct Consumption - ScienceDirect Starting from this episode we will only post once a week. We both love doing the show, but we need time for other (less fun) administrative tasks.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from washing produce without first removing the sticker. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 banana - Risky or Not? Microbiological safety evaluations and recommendations on fresh produce - ScienceDirect - C. De Roever Microbiological safety evaluations and recommendations on fresh produce - ScienceDirect - National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods Natural-Light Labeling of Tomatoes Does Not Facilitate Growth or Penetration of Salmonellainto the Fruit - ScienceDirect CO2 Laser-labeling on Fresh Produce: Evaluating Postharvest Quality, Microbial Safety, and Economic Analysis - ScienceDirect

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating off dishes washed by a scrub brush previously used to wash raw chicken dishes, with no sanitation step in between. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Natural Tampico Fiber — Caddy Supply Company The survival of foodborne pathogens during domestic washing-up and subsequent transfer onto washing-up sponges, kitchen surfaces and food - ScienceDirect Quantifying the Effect of Hand Wash Duration, Soap Use, Ground Beef Debris, and Drying Methods on the Removal of Enterobacter aerogenes on Hands - ScienceDirect

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from "cutting" carrots with your mouth for a slow cooker meal. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Instagram The Kingsmen - Louie Louie - YouTube 'Louie Louie': The story behind the song everyone knows but no one understands : NPR

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating two decade old fish sauce. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town | Defector Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio) - YouTube Saint Pierre and Miquelon - Wikipedia Saint Pierre and Miquelon in France - Saint Pierre and Miquelon - Wikipedia Newfoundland and Labrador - Wikipedia Homemade Fish Sauce – Fermenters Club About | Mendo Food Consulting FISH SAUCE PRODUCTS AND MANUFACTURING: A REVIEW: Food Reviews International: Vol 17 , No 1 - Get Access Food Safety Myths You Need To Stop Believing, According To An Expert

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating canned corn in hand-soldered tins. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ To Can Corn (soldered tins) — Don't Cook That Synergistic Inactivation of Spores of Proteolytic Clostridium botulinum Strains by High Pressure and Heat Is Strain and Product Dependent - PMC heat resistance of the spores of B. botulinus and allied anaerobes. XI | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic Food Safety Talk 319: I'm Feeling Botchy Today — Food Safety Talk

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating reheated Buffalo wings that fell into a clean sink. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 hockey - Risky or Not? The Rise & Fall … & Rise of Midget Hockey - Total Package Hockey MYHockey Rankings - MYHockey Minor ice hockey - Wikipedia Warren Zevon – Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song) Lyrics | Genius Lyrics North Carolina 16U Rankings - MYHockey Rutgers Researchers Debunk 'Five-Second Rule': Eating Food off the Floor Isn't Safe | Rutgers University Longer Contact Times Increase Cross-Contamination of Enterobacter aerogenes from Surfaces to Food - PubMed

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from cooking stuffing in a turkey without a thermometer. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Thanksgiving (Canada) - Wikipedia Texas Environmental Health Association Stuffing and Food Safety | Food Safety and Inspection Service Turkey Basics: Stuffing | Food Safety and Inspection Service Stuffing the turkey and other Thanksgiving food-safety mistakes | Penn State University Stuffing Your Turkey Could Make You Sick—Here's What Our Editors Do Instead

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks to a teenage boy from consuming deli meat and cheese left on the counter for 10 hours Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼| Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Wegmans Oven Roasted Off The Bone Turkey Breast | Wegmans ComBase Retail Deli Slicer Inspection Practices: An EHS-Net Study Retail Deli Slicer Inspection Practices: An EHS-Net Study - PMC

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using toothpaste that came from a tube split during the packaging process. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Contents of toothpaste - safety implications - Australian Prescriber US7135163B2 - Prevention of crystal formation in toothpaste - Google Patents Antimicrobial Efficacy of Different Toothpastes and Mouthrinses: An In Vitro Study - PMC Antimicrobial Effect of Newly Formulated Toothpastes and a Mouthrinse on Specific Microorganisms: An In Vitro Study - PMC

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating bacon with a pinhole leak in the package. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Great Value Hickory Smoked Sliced Bacon, 12 oz Naturally Smoked Pork Bacon Slices - Walmart.com Bacon Prices Set to Surge Anew in Threat to More Meat Inflation - Bloomberg Use of Optical Oxygen Sensors in Non-Destructively Determining the Levels of Oxygen Present in Combined Vacuum and Modified Atmosphere Packaged Pre-Cooked Convenience-Style Foods and the Use of Ethanol Emitters to Extend Product Shelf-Life Bacon and Food Safety | Food Safety and Inspection Service Toss Your Bacon Immediately If You Notice These Signs Bacon Method Accidental Tech Podcast

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Fulminant Bacillus cereus food poisoning with fatal multi-organ failure | BMJ Case Reports Predictive Model for Growth of Bacillus cereus at Temperatures Applicable to Cooling of Cooked Pasta - Juneja - 2019 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library Heat-stable toxin production by strains of Bacillus cereus, Bacillus firmus, Bacillus megaterium, Bacillus simplex and Bacillus licheniformis | FEMS Microbiology Letters | Oxford Academic

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from consuming or preparing Vichy squirrel. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Vichy - Wikipedia Mortar and pestle - Wikipedia Monty Python - The French Taunter - HD WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES - YouTube Native and introduced squirrels in Italy host different Cryptosporidium spp. - ScienceDirect A Peek into the Bacterial Microbiome of the Eurasian Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) What Diseases Can Squirrels Carry? - Varmint Gone All About Squirrels: 6 Common Questions - Waltham Pest Services Bucknell University EHS/Risk Compliance Guide Eastern Grey Squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis)

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating ant yogurt. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Rob Dunn | Applied Ecology Making yogurt with the ant holobiont uncovers bacteria, acids, and enzymes for food fermentation: iScience Ant Yogurt Is a Traditional Recipe That Crawls on 6 Legs - The New York Times