Don't Eat Poop! A Food Safety Podcast

De: Food Safety Specialists: Matthew Regusci and Francine L Shaw
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  • Tune in every Tuesday for a brand new episode of Don't Eat Poop! A Food Safety Podcast. Join Francine L. Shaw, the savvy CEO of Savvy Food Safety, and Matthew Regusci, compliance connoisseur and founder of Fostering Compliance, as they serve up the latest in food safety with a side of laughter. Explore the ins and outs of food systems, responsible food practices, and food safety regulations. Stay informed about food safety awareness and the not-so-occasional food recall. Delve deep into the complexities of the food supply chain with our dynamic duo, who blend expert insights with a pinch of food safety humor. Whether you're knee-deep in the food safety industry or just passionate about what's on your plate, this podcast promises a fresh take on staying safe while eating well. Expect candid conversations, personal anecdotes, and occasional guest appearances that spice up the discussion. Shaw and Regusci bring their combined decades of experience to the table, making each episode as informative as it is entertaining. From industry trends to must-know food safety news and regulations, they've got your back (and your lunch). In essence, Don't Eat Poop! A Food Safety Podcast is not just about imparting information; it's about fostering a culture of food safety. By shedding light on the intricacies of the food supply chain and the latest food safety news, it aims to promote awareness and encourage responsible food practices among consumers and industry professionals alike. When it comes to food safety, knowledge is power, and a good laugh is the best seasoning. At the heart of every episode is one golden rule: Don't Eat Poop!
    © 2025 Food Safety Specialists: Matthew Regusci and Francine L Shaw
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  • Always Learn Something New About Food Safety with Tina Brillinger from GFSR | Episode 113
    Apr 29 2025
    🧤 THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY Eagle Protect! 🧤Eagle Protect's Delta Zero gloves are third-party verified to be free from harmful microbial contamination—something most food-handling gloves aren't tested for!Unsure about your current gloves? Eagle Protect will test them for microbial contamination at cost, so you can be confident you're meeting food safety standards.Click on the link to get started: White PaperGlove Best Practice Guidelines to prevent direct and cross-contamination. Glove selection, colors, where to dispense, how to use effectively etc.Glove Audit: Solve your glove-related issues and improve your food safety practices. Get personalized feedback on how to mitigate these risks.Visit EagleProtect.com to learn more and ensure your gloves are truly safe!In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are joined by Tina Brillinger, the president and CEO of Global Food Safety Resource (GFSR), straight from the Food Safety Consortium 2024.You’ll learn more about the world-leading food safety resource for helping food professionals with food safety compliance, as well as its podcast.Tina also shares her unique perspective as a Canadian working in food safety globally, and information about a serious foodborne illness that she only recently discovered, after 15 years in the field.In this episode:💩 [01:12] Meet Tina Brillinger and the Global Food Safety Resource💩 [03:09] The Eye on Food Safety Podcast 💩 [04:12] Getting more women to work and be visible in the food safety industry💩 [07:11] What you’ll find inside GFSR💩 [09:05] How GFSR’s resources have directly impacted people around the world💩 [10:56] The demand for food safety culture training and information 💩 [11:49] What you can expect from GFSR’s articles and their podcast in 2025💩 [13:22] The far-reaching impact of the Calgary daycare outbreak💩 [15:45] Find what you need to know about pathogens, like Listeria and H. pylori💩 [19:00] We need to educate more instead of just training💩 [21:21] Why the Food Safety Consortium continues to be a favorite of Tina’sDisclaimer: Episode title and content do not constitute legal or health advice.Resources from this episodeAccess all of GFSR’s valuable content at globalfoodsafetyresource.com.Listen to the Eye on Food Safety Podcast here or on LinkedIn.Catch up with previous Don’t Eat Poop! episodes with Dr. Darin Detwiler, starting with Episode 81, where you’ll find the links to the other ones as well.Learn more about the outbreak in the daycare in Canada from our episodes about it, Unidentified Food Floating in Chemical Buckets | Episode 32, and The Calgary Daycare Outbreak: Revisited | Episode 33Noteworthy quotes from this episode“ There isn't any topic that is off limits as far as [GFSR is] concerned because food safety really touches on all corners of the industry. So, right from warehousing to logistics and recalls, the whole gamut. So, we don't focus on quality at all, we focus strictly on food safety.” – Tina BrillingerWe hope you enjoy this episode!Remember to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast on your favorite podcast platform. Together, we can raise awareness and make a positive impact in the world of food safety!Share your thoughts and feedback on the show, and feel free to offer any topics you would like to hear discussed.We'd love to hear from you!📲 Connect with Tina, Francine, Matt, and the "Don't Eat Poop!" show on LinkedIn!📕 Check out Francine's book Who Watches the Kitchen? on Amazon! 🎙️ BE A GUEST ON DON’T EAT POOP!Fill out this form to tell us more about yourself. We’ll reach out via email within 30 days with next steps if you’re selected._______Produced by Ideablossoms
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  • The Administration for Healthy America (AHA): Understand What It Is and How It’ll Affect U.S. Food Safety | Episode 112
    Apr 22 2025
    🧤 THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY Eagle Protect! 🧤Just like food, your gloves might contain cheap ingredients! Did you know most food-handling gloves aren’t tested for defects? That means your gloves could have unnoticed holes, exposing you and others to harmful contaminants.Choose gloves you can trust! Ensure they're tested and verified to keep your kitchen safe.Glove Audit: solving your glove-related issues and improving your food safety practices, getpersonalized feedback on how to mitigate these risks. Glove Best Practice Guidelines to prevent direct and cross-contamination. Glove selection,colors, where to dispense, how to use effectively etc.We trust Eagle Protect—visit eagleprotect.com to learn more.In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are discussing a true alphabet soup of changes in the U.S. Health Agencies.In late March 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the current U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced the Transformation to Make America Healthy Again. This will entail a great restructuring and consolidation of the existing Health Agencies.Tune in to understand what the government (says it) means to do and Matt and Francine’s great insights on how this will unfold and, ultimately, affect Food Safety in the U.S.In this episode:💩 [01:43] Things Matt and Francine had in common growing up💩 [05:22] Parenting tips from someone with A LOT of kiddos 💩 [10:52] Working in food safety and compliance is just like having children💩 [14:09] Consolidating everything into the Administration for Healthy America💩 [16:57] HHS’s fact sheet on the changes that will take place💩 [24:11] Our hosts’ first impressions of the proposed changes💩 [28:16] Immediate concerns regarding food safety💩 [30:30] How food safety regulations came to be in the U.S.💩 [32:23] The much-needed upcoming paradigm shift in the U.S. food industry💩 [36:34] Will personal opinions alter science, or will science and facts prevail?💩 [40:49] The importance of seeking information from various sources💩 [42:01] Cautiously optimistic about the upcoming changes, but we’ll see Disclaimer: Episode title and content do not constitute legal or health advice.Resources from this episodeWatch Secretary Kennedy’s AHA announcement on X.Check out the Fact Sheet: HHS’ Transformation to Make America Healthy Again.Catch up with Episode 108 | How Changes in U.S. Food Agencies Are Putting Food Safety in America at Risk.Catch up with Episode 85 | The Road to Food Safety with Deborah Blum.Catch up with Episode 82 | Household Foods in The US That Are Banned in Other Countries.Visit Ground News.Noteworthy quotes from this episode“ Good or bad, [Make America Healthy Again] is going to be a fundamental paradigm shift in the food industry, and I think it'll be viewed [as] good for some people [and] it'll be viewed [as] bad by other people.” – Matt Regusci“ My only concern with any of it is, [RFK Jr.] seems to have a lot of his own personal opinions about a lot of things, and... I wouldn't be me if I didn't address this. I wonder how much his own personal opinions about food or any other of the health-related topics that are going to fall under this are going to affect him looking at the science of those things.” – Francine L ShawWe hope you enjoy this episode!Remember to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast on your favorite podcast platform. Together, we can raise awareness and make a positive impact in the world of food safety!Share your thoughts and feedback on the show, and feel free to offer any topics you would like to hear discussed.We'd love to hear from you!📲 Connect with Francine, Matt, and the "Don't Eat Poop!" show on LinkedIn!📕 Check out Francine's book Who Watches the Kitchen? on Amazon! 🎙️ BE A GUEST ON DON’T EAT POOP!Fill out this form to tell us more about yourself. We’ll reach out via email within 30 days with next steps if you’re selected._______Produced by Ideablossoms
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  • What They Don’t Tell You About Decaf Coffee That You Should Absolutely Know | Episode 111
    Apr 15 2025
    🧤 THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY Eagle Protect! 🧤Just like food, your gloves might contain cheap ingredients! Did you know most food-handling gloves aren’t tested for defects? That means your gloves could have unnoticed holes, exposing you and others to harmful contaminants.Choose gloves you can trust! Ensure they're tested and verified to keep your kitchen safe.Glove Audit: solving your glove-related issues and improving your food safety practices, getpersonalized feedback on how to mitigate these risks. Glove Best Practice Guidelines to prevent direct and cross-contamination. Glove selection,colors, where to dispense, how to use effectively etc.We trust Eagle Protect—visit eagleprotect.com to learn more.In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are talking about the ongoing Class II recall of Our Family’s Traverse City Cherry-Flavored Decaf Light Roast Ground Coffee from the parent company Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA due to mislabeling.They use this opportunity to share some little-known truths about decaf coffee that consumers should be aware of, such as the actual caffeine content of decaf coffee, and the fact that they might be ingesting harmful chemicals when going for decaf coffee.In this episode:💩 [02:00] The current mislabelled decaf coffee recall 💩 [03:32] The caffeine content of decaf coffee (no, it’s not 0%)💩 [04:09] Drinking decaf versus regular coffee💩 [05:03] Matt’s and Francine’s daily caffeine intake💩 [07:34] Matt’s and Francine’s different opinions on black coffee💩 [09:38] When drinking a caffeinated decaf coffee can be harmful💩 [11:32] Debatable coffee flavors💩 [12:48] Decaffeination processes, including a very unsafe one💩 [14:47] The danger of Methylene Chloride💩 [16:02] The use of dangerous chemicals in house flipping (and food?)💩 [20:00] Small doses of harmful chemicals add up over time💩 [23:21] Details on the recalled product, so you can send it back if you have itDisclaimer: Episode title and content do not constitute legal or health advice.Resources from this episodeIf you’re curious about the movie Sausage Party, you can watch it here, but again, we don’t recommend it.Catch up with the episode we thought would lose us a lot of listeners, but actually didn’t, Episode 108 | How Changes in U.S. Food Agencies Are Putting Food Safety in America at Risk.Learn everything about Clean Label Project’s findings on the dangerous chemicals present in decaf coffee here.Catch up on our interview with Deborah Blum, Episode 85 | The Road to Food Safety with Deborah Blum, Award-Winning Author of “The Poison Squad”.Noteworthy quotes from this episode“Methylene chloride is an active ingredient in paint thinner that was recently banned by the FDA. So, you could not use this product to scrape paint off of your walls. It's too dangerous for that, but to throw into some coffee beans to get rid of caffeine? No problem. That sounds like a good application for this thing.” – Matt Regusci“Somebody said to me the other day, ‘I just drink black [coffee].’ Okay, well, you stick to your black. You don't want anything interesting or different in your life. That's wonderful. Don't go out on a limb and have any risk because you might like something different.” – Francine L ShawWe hope you enjoy this episode!Remember to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast on your favorite podcast platform. Together, we can raise awareness and make a positive impact in the world of food safety!Share your thoughts and feedback on the show, and feel free to offer any topics you would like to hear discussed.We'd love to hear from you!📲 Connect with Francine, Matt, and the "Don't Eat Poop!" show on LinkedIn!📕 Check out Francine's book Who Watches the Kitchen? on Amazon! 🎙️ BE A GUEST ON DON’T EAT POOP!Fill out this form to tell us more about yourself. We’ll reach out via email within 30 days with next steps if you’re selected._______Produced by Ideablossoms
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