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Rethinking How Things Are Done to Solve Food Safety Problems with Steven Mandernach from AFDO | Episode 90

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are joined by Steven Mandernach, Executive Director at the Association of Food and Drug Officials, stra...

The 13th Annual Food Safety Consortium Recap | Episode 89

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine have just gotten back from the Food Safety Consortium 2024 and they’re sharing everything while it’s st...

McDonald’s, Here We Go Again: Deadly E. Coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald’s | Episode 88

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are talking about the hot topic of the past few weeks: the deadly McDonald’s E. Coli outbreak.This is a...

The Impacts of American Federalism on US Food Safety with Doug Farquhar | Episode 87

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are joined by Doug Farquhar, the Director of Government Affairs of the National Environmental Health As...

Ask Us Anything! (LinkedIn Live) | Episode 86

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are sharing with you the Ask Us Anything! LinkedIn Live they did on Sep 25, 2024, during Food Safety Aw...

The Road to Food Safety with Deborah Blum, Award-Winning Author of “The Poison Squad” | Episode 85

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are joined by Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, at the 2024 FDA...

Preventative Instead of Reactive Food Safety with Patrick Quade, Founder and CEO of Iwaspoisoned.com | Episode 84

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are joined by Patrick Quade, Founder and CEO of Iwaspoisoned.com, at the 2024 FDA Retail Food Seminar &...

The Future of Food Safety (Keynote at 2024 FDA Retail Food Seminar & Annual Education Conference) | Episode 83

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are looking into their very own crystal ball and diving into “The Future of Food Safety” on their Keyno...

Household Foods in The US That Are Banned in Other Countries | Episode 82

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, food safety industry veterans Matt and Francine are taking you through a list of 29 common foods that are approved in the United St...

Global Glove Safety Day and Other Big Food Safety Issues with “Food Safety Icon” Dr. Darin Detwiler | Episode 81

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine welcome back an esteemed guest onto the podcast, the food safety expert and advocate Dr. Darin Detwiler...

Don’t Drink Poop! Olympians Swimming in the Seine | Episode 80

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are turning their attention to the Olympics where some of the athletes were unfortunately drinking poop...

Breaking News: What's Going on with Boar's Head? The Latest of This Listeria Outbreak with Bill Marler

In this bonus episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, Francine and Matt are joined by a very special guest, Bill Marler, a leading expert in food safety. Together, they dive into ...

The Food Safety Side of the Cannabis Industry with Carly Bader of Willow Industries | Episode 79

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are joined by Carly Bader, Manager of Science at Willow Industries, a cannabis decontamination technolo...

Replay: Do You Know How to Get Rid of Salmonella? | Episode 78

After the Quaker Oats food recall case study was featured in the last episode, food safety industry veterans Francine L. Shaw and Matt Ragucci decided to bring back th...

Quaker Oats Salmonella Food Recall Case Study | Episode 77

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are once more talking about the Quaker Oats Salmonella Recall, this time in light of the public FDA let...

Silk and Great Value Brand Plant-based Milk Listeria Outbreak in Canada | Episode 76

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are talking about a Listeria outbreak in Canada that was traced back to Silk and Great Value brand plan...

China’s Cooking Oil Scandal | Episode 75

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are talking about Chinese food safety after an outrageous cooking oil scandal in China.Tune in for all ...

Lead and Other Heavy Metals in Tampons | Episode 74

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are talking about something that does not fall within the realm of food safety but still needs to be di...

Don’t Wash Your Chicken, Seriously | Episode 73

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are talking about chicken, more specifically about how you should NOT wash raw chicken.The problem is t...

Double Whammy: Chocolate and Coffee Simultaneous Recalls | Episode 72

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are talking about two of people’s favorite things: chocolate and coffee. Unfortunately, it’s for a not-...

Child Labor in the Food Industry | Episode 71

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine take on the challenging but important topic of child labor. This is relevant for food safety because th...

Top 10 Food Safety Scandals | Episode 70

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are going through the list of the 10 Worst Food Safety Scandals in recent history, which include both n...

A Look at the FDA’s Reorganization Plan and Some Food Safety Mythbusting | Episode 69

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are talking about the recently approved FDA’s reorganization plan, which will hopefully bring positive ...

The Cucumber Salmonella Major Outbreak | Episode 68

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are, unfortunately, talking about a new multi-state outbreak, this time it’s cucumbers that are carryin...

Lab-Grown Meat: The Pros & Cons and What to Expect | Episode 67

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are talking about the future again, this time they're tackling lab-grown meat — that is if one can even...

Conference Updates from the Food Safety Summit and the National Restaurant Association Show | Episode 66

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are talking conferences.Francine recently attended the Food Safety Summit and the National Restaurant A...

A Better Way to Do Supply Chain Management with Sara Jane Bellocchi from TraceGains | Episode 65

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are joined by Sara Jane Bellocchi, a Functional Consultant at TraceGains. They talk about how much of a...

Paper, Spreadsheets, and the Need to Raise the Bar with David Hatch of Neogen | Episode 64

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are joined by David Hatch from Neogen, one of the world's largest suppliers of food safety testing plat...

The Future of the Fast Food Industry and Robot Food Safety | Episode 63

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are talking about the future of the fast food industry, more specifically the rise of automation and ro...

Food Safety Gets the Short End of the Stick (Again) | Episode 62

In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are talking about the very concerning fact that the FDA is considering cutting funding for state food i...

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