Summary: Don and Ben start the episode talking about podcasting background sounds like birds and stuff they are watching.The conversation goes to a new paper that Ben's group had published on the impacts (and the turns outs) of consumers washing poultry before cooking, where the pathogens seem to go and what we tell people about cleaning and sanitizing their sinks. The conversation goes to reducing paper waste and the food safety issues related to reusable containers coming into a restaurant. The guys talk about the best way to communicate oyster-linked Norovirus outbreaks and recalls to restaurants (and how much of a signal to noise problem there could be. The discussion goes to enoki mushrooms and ongoing Listeria issues and ends on a conversation of Helena Bottemiller Evich's Politico's piece about FDA's challenges.
