Eggnog spiked with salmonella?

You’ve gotta hand it to scientists…they’re dedicated. Just don’t ask them for seconds on the nog.

A perennial holiday dilemma: will alcohol kill the bacteria in homemade eggnog? Microbiologists Vince Fischetti and Raymond Schuch, from The Rockefeller University, ran an experiment in the lab to see whether salmonella can survive in a vat of spiked eggnog. Dr. Rebecca Lancefield’s Eggnog Recipe.

Don’t try this at home.

Who's watching the peanut butter factory?

Don’t you just hate government regulation? All those inspectors crawling snooping around - slowing down the titans of capitalism and costing taxpayers money? This is the way the Bush administration saw things for two terms, and now it’s the American consumer who’s paying the price - one something as ubiquitous as peanut butter. What was the cost of getting inspectors off the backs of industry? Just a few hundred lives.

Take a good look at whatever you’re eating right now, since the problem is much broader than anybody suspected:

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