Lab Culture Ep. 27: Discussing food safety with colleagues, but please not over lunch

Like most things in public health science, food safety is complicated. The nuance can be difficult for non-scientists to understand and difficult for scientists to communicate. On this episode of Lab Culture, Shari Shea, APHL’s director of food safety, discusses some of what makes food safety fascinating and complex along with guests Ben Chapman, Associate Professor and Extension Food Safety Specialist at North Carolina State University, and Don Schaffner, Distinguished Professor and Extension Specialist in Food Science and Professor at Rutgers University.

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Links:

• Food Safety Talk 242: Invisible Poop Particles
• Risky or Not episode 217: Homemade Treats From Neighbors
• Risky or Not episode 87: 27 Lbs of Unrefrigerated Feta Cheese
• Risky or Not episode 214: Having a Romantic Flour Fight
• “Modeling the growth of Listeria monocytogenes on cut cantaloupe, honeydew and watermelon”
• “Ranking the disease burden of 14 pathogens in food sources in the United States using attribution data from outbreak investigations and expert elicitation”
• “Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions for SARS-CoV-2 on norovirus outbreaks: an analysis of outbreaks reported by 9 US States”
• Hello Fresh: Food Safety/Recall Notices
• CDC MMWR: “Decreased Incidence of Infections Caused by Pathogens Transmitted Commonly Through Food During the COVID-19 Pandemic — Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, 10 U.S. Sites, 2017–2020”
• “Labs with No One to Run Them: Why Public Health Workers Are Fleeing the Field”
• “APHL: Historic Investments Will Strengthen Public Health Laboratory Workforce”
• Lab Culture Ep. 22: Life as a public health lab scientist testing for COVID-19
• “DO NOT RINSE YOUR TURKEY! And other Thanksgiving food rules for every day”
• Don Schaffner on Twitter
• Ben Chapman on Twitter
• Shari Shea on Twitter
• Food Safety Talk podcast
• Risky or Not podcast