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Closing the Food Safety Culture Gap: Data, Training & AI with Azure Edwards of Pacific Blue Horizon Group | Episode 180
Food safety culture has been the industry's favorite buzzword for years, but what does it actually look like once you're standing on the production floor? Food safety...
FDA's New Director of Produce Safety: Can Dr. Donna Garren Make a Change? | Episode 179
The FDA's top produce safety post sat empty for over a year, and when it comes to leafy greens, berries, and bagged salads, that's not a small gap. Now Dr. Donna Garre...
Would You Eat It? Food Safety Risks Ranked | Episode 178
Fountain soda ice that turns pink overnight. Gas station sushi. A charcuterie board that's been sitting out since noon. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts ...
Cyclospora Outbreak: 7,000 Sick and the Surveillance System That Went Dark | Episode 177
Nearly 7,000 people are sick, the CDC's own case count can't keep up with what individual states are finding on their own, and six months ago the agency quietly stoppe...
Food Safety Consortium 2026: Allergens, Traceability & a Story That Silenced a Room with Rick Biros from Food Safety Tech | Episode 176
A crowded elevator in St. Louis. A stranger's badge. A conversation that led food safety consortium founder Rick Biros to a mother named Dana and to Kayla, her daughte...
The Power of Storytelling in Food Safety with Dr. Darin Detwiler & Gennette Zimmer | Episode 175
Every corporate food safety crisis seems to follow the same script: a somber press conference, a pledge to prioritize safety, a promise to retrain the people at the bo...
Fake IDs, Real Consequences: Child Labor Exposed in the Meat Industry | Episode 174
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 Perdue Farms ...
Food Safety as an Investment: Inside the 2026 Food Safety Consortium with Rick Biros | Episode 173
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 new narrativ...
World Cup Food Safety: 10 Million Visitors & 28 Health Inspectors | Episode 172
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 that is already ...
GRAS Additives, the FRESH Act & the Fight Over Food Safety Authority | Episode 171
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 Poop!, Matt and ...
Behind the Scenes of the Food Safety Consortium: Curation, Speakers & 15 Years of Evolution with Rick Biros from Food Safety Tech | Episode 170
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 behind it is...
Retail & Meal Delivery Food Safety Fails with Michelle Wollenzien from The Food Safety Exchange Podcast | Episode 169
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 grocery store di...
“Not for Human Consumption” Raw Chocolate Milk Controversy | Episode 168
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 Florida dairy selli...
Cantaloupe Recalls, Norovirus Nightmares & the Food Safety Chemical Nobody’s Talking About | Episode 167
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 already sittin...
Biogenic Amines in Chicken: The Real Risk from Cold Chain Failures | Episode 166
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 bizarre (and under-t...
Food Safety Compliance Chaos: FDA Redactions, Conflicts of Interest & Mango Mayhem | Episode 165
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 peel back the l...
Undeclared Ingredients & Food Fraud: When Chocolate Gets Dangerous (Food Safety Compliance Breakdown) | Episode 164
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 Matt and Franc...
Botulism from Fermented Fish: The Hidden Risks of Gut Health Trends | Episode 163
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 botulism caused by f...
Food Safety Compliance in Home Kitchens: The Hidden Risks of Social Media Food Businesses | Episode 162
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-scroll. In this e...
15 Years of Food Safety Tech: Food Safety Compliance vs Reality with Rick Biros | Episode 161
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 Food Safety Cons...
