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Food Safety Talk
Personal blog · foodsafetytalk.comhealthscience
Food Safety Talk is a personal blog at foodsafetytalk.com about health and science. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Food Safety Talk for food safety discussion from a scientific and academic angle, mainly through its podcast. Linked topics include benzene in hand sanitizers and salad as a source of food poisoning.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Every two weeks or so, Ben and Don record a podcast talk and about what's on their minds or in the news regarding food safety, and popular culture.
What Hacker News says?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1471-5740... via http://foodsafetytalk.com/food-safety-talk/2012/6/25/food-sa...
Comment linking /food-safety-talk/2012/6/25/food-safety-talk-20-im-not-worried-about-eating-my-own-poop.html
on “Benzene detected in hand sanitizers”If anyone has even a passing interest in food safety from a scientific or academic perspective, the Food Safety Talk podcast is fantastic. The lawyer quoted in the article is friends with the two hosts. http://foodsafetytalk.com/
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on “How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US”It is a good instinct to be concerned about this. But far as anyone can tell data, food has not acted as a transmission vector in any statistically detectable number of cases. The numbers don't show it, and the detailed disease transmission studies rule it out. Here's a some high-level coverage of a lot of the obvious questions: https://www.news4jax.com/health/2020/03/31/answering-common-... If you prefer podcasts,…
Comment linking /food-safety-talk/2020/3/18/food-safety-talk-205-cough-record-scratch
on “Uber Bookings Now Down 80%”