Food Safety Talk 10: Fake clams, Sam and Ella

Episode 10 starts out with a discussion of Christmas gifts for the food safety nerd. Neither Don or Ben actually recieved any. The guys move on to discussion temperature abuse (surprise), data loggers and the nuances of infectious dose. Raw milk and home food preservation also make an appearance. Creative Don ends things with a food safety haiku.

• What Ben did not get for Christmas.
• Ben has a tumblr, AKA pinterest for nerds. So does Don.
• Thermometer of champions. Comark PDT300.
• Bill Keene, Oregon's top food-borne illness detective.
• Don's extra nerdy gift "from me, to me; because I always know what I want" - the iGrill.
• Thermometers (here, here) that Don is using in a project to assess transport temperatures/variations.
• Not sure why, but Don says he has to do this to get the data.
• Someone who probably needs to use a temperature control monitor.
• What Don saw outside a restaurant in San Diego.
• Three things that are really important in real estate.
• Don used fake clams to model Vibrio growth. What do fake clams look like (1,2)?
• Is this the edge that Don was talking about? Because, ironically, Ben is "always on the Edge" as this is his favorite radio station (or internet radio station).
• Always start blog posts with a number.
• Mike Batz, our diehard listener who Don Schaffner may or may not be posting as, and who co-authored this, bought himself a bunch of date stickers for Christmas. He's clairvoyant.
• Cronobacter sakazakii, which used to be known as Enterobacter sakazakii  (pronounced sakazak-ee - or coronobacter sakazaki-eye, we're not sure which one).
• Wal-mart recalls Enfamil formula.
• FDA visits the plant and finds nothing; CDC epidemiologists also says the outbreak is not related to Enfimil.
• Lettuce recalled because of Salmonella in an adjacent field.
• Salmonella?
• Raw milk at Rutgers University.
• Where you can buy space booties.
• How Good is Your Eyesight: Bill Marler's description of infectious dose. Don says it's one - it's the mean infectious dose that really matters though.
• What Don looks like when he goes all mathy.
• What Ben looks like.
• What 1000 servings of eggs might look like.
• Pathogenesis of Shigella dysenteriae 1 (Shiga) Dysentery - prisoners used for dose-response models.
• Dose-Response Model for Listeria monocytogenes-Induced Stillbirths in Nonhuman Primates.
• Christine Moe, Emory University - who does dose-response work in norovirus.
• Tested recipe for home canned apple sauce.
• Should home canned foods be boiled for 10 min before consumption? USDA still says yes, but in their canning guide, only for low-acid.
• Safety of herbed oils paper.
• Wash your hands, dumbass.

Fake Clams, Sam and Ella

Food Safety Talk 7: Dazed and Confused

In Episode 7 of Food Safety Talk, Ben and Don set out to talk about the Mr. Cheese Salmonella outbreak, but range far and wide into discussions about helping Entrepreneurs, the differences between risk assessment and risk management, and the importance of a good theme song.

• Seltzer, The beverage of choice for leading Podcaster's everywhere.
• The NC state fair outbreak has been linked to a livestock display barn.
• Spinach grown near cattle feed yards can become contaminated with microorganisms transfer via the air.
• Mr. Cheese is a man (cheese?) of many faces.
• Ben's son thinks Mr. Cheese looks like this.
• Details on the actual Mr. Cheese outbreak.
• The original Listeria Hispanic style cheese outbreak.
• Don's barfblog post on Freehold illegal restaurants.
• A Map of Utah counties.
• Whole foods want to sell foods made by local entrepreneurs.
• NJ retail food code, now chapter 24. It's twice as good as the old Chapter 12.
• Watermelon jelly botulism, I blame Canada.
• National Center for Home Food Preservation.
• A scientific article on the Hazelnut yogurt botulism outbreak.
• Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurship at the New York State Food Venture Center.
• Fletcher Arritt, III Assistant Professor, Food Science.
• Snooki is to NJ as Andy Griffith is to NC.
• Mike the Barber, don't be creepy.
• The old Extension model, as described by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
• The National GAP'S program.
• Episode 3 of FST, where Ben interviews Don's replacement.
• An article on risk analysis.
• The Norman Borlaug institute doing good work.
• Risk Analysis is cool, but it is important to understand the difference between risk assessment and risk management.
• HACCP.
• See Episode 1, for the differences between Ben and Don's personal food safety risk management decisions.
• Lynn Frewer who does research on Risk communication with consumers: Ben is a big fan.
• How to pronounce data.
• Craig Hedberg from U Minnesota: Don is a big fan.
• My biggest fan by Loudon Wainwright III... "yeah there's Bob then there's Neil then there's me", full lyrics here.
• The KISS comic book, printed with the actual KISS blood.
• I wanna rock and roll all night with lyrics, in the hopes that Ben's son will learn to read, and learn more words to the song.
• The Dazed and Confused movie, which Don has to watch for homework. Because very cool podcasts often talk about movies.
• Licensing music from ASCAP for podcasts.
• And for those who listened through the outro music, check out Roderick on the Line.
• Ben's homework is to learn Markdown.

Dazed and Confused