In this episode Don and Ben talk Valentine's day happenings; chocolate and then being famous on the Internet. The guys eventually get to food safety stuff and chat about raw milk risks, inactivation of Salmonella in peanut butter and the risk of someones dirty hands ending up on their toilet paper.
- W00t deal, a deal a day where Don and Kristin scored some Valentine's day salted caramels.
- Don gets his greeting cards at CVS, Ben wonders if they stock these.
- The hip Raleigh restaurant that Ben and Dani went to a couple of years ago for Valentine's Day.
- Wine and Design - Dani's gift was to go out without Ben with a bunch of her friends. And then they ate Subway.
- American Frozen Food Institute annual meeting, where Don went to hang out after Valentine's Day.
- Ben tries to connect chocolate and Valentine's Day and food safety - here is an example.
- What someone who is surprised might look like.
- I love charts tumblr.
- Don's tumblr.
- The iPhone 5 that cures the flu and makes broccoli taste like chocolate, and made Don famous on the inter webs.
- Don seeks clarification on whether the required metric is blogs or blog posts? (or a blogg?) for his annual survey of program methods
- Batz's Double Face Palm post.
- What a denominator might look like.
- FDA's cold-smoked fish hazards. There's contamination, not many people eat it, total risk is probably pretty low.
- There was an outbreak of Salmonella linked to this company in 2009. Tragically these things happened and then this.
- Some of the work on the inactivation of Salmonella in peanut butter.
- What 1.5 million servings of chocolate might look like.
- Don talks about Salmonella in dry spots (not Arizona, but products like hydrolyzed vegetable protein and almonds).
- Walmart quietly dropped sprouts from sale.
- FDA's sprout guidance document highlights the importance of testing spent irrigation water.
- Bob Sanderson, whom Don would eat sprouts from if he liked them.
- Galen Weston who thinks farmers markets might kill people soon.
- Ben wants to buy food from vendors who think they might kill someone.
- What Ben is really talking about -- food safety culture.
- One guy who doesn't worry about making waves or causing a stir.
- Don's famous internet friend. Not this one.
- Merlin put Don on the spot on what his favorite Food Safety Talk episode is. Don picks this one. Ben likes this one.
- Quit touching my toilet paper.
- How Ben would mitigate this risk.
- What Don is worried about at farmers markets.
