Jeff Guo
speaker
1,187 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Sep
Jeff Guo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They are not typically a fruit where you have to worry about salmonella.
Wait, so it was like chicken air that was just blowing onto these peaches?
Yep.
Well, that is one of the theories, at least.
The FDA never actually figured out how the salmonella got onto the peaches.
When they visited, they couldn't even find a match for the same strain of salmonella that had gotten people sick.
So to this day, this is still a mystery.
Yes.
Jim says there are a lot of mysteries like that in food science, particularly when it comes to the current pest on everyone's minds, cyclospora.
Jim says there are tons of basic facts that we still don't fully understand about cyclospora, about how it spreads or where it hides.
We don't even have super great tests for detecting cyclospora on our vegetables.
You know, talking to a guy like Jim, who has spent his entire career studying ways that people get sick from food, it's enough to make anyone a little bit paranoid.
So we were a little surprised when he told us that once in a while, even he will sneak a little piece of unwashed fruit.
Jim says there is always going to be risk when it comes to eating raw food.
But we should also put those risks into perspective.
Statistically, people are far more likely to get sick from food prepared in a dirty kitchen than they are from food that was grown in a contaminated field.
Meanwhile, Americans are safely eating billions...
billions and billions of pounds of lettuce every single year.
Hey, a quick plug for a virtual event coming up tomorrow for our NPR Plus supporters.
The indicators Adrian Ma and Waylon Wong are talking about the U.S.
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