In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are joined by Patrick Quade, Founder and CEO of Iwaspoisoned.com, at the 2024 FDA Retail Food Seminar & IEHA Annual Education Conference.

They talk about Iwaspoisoned.com, which is a food safety crowdsourcing website. People can come to the website and report a food safety issue, and that data is then used to detect outbreaks, clusters, and trends in real time.

Tune in to hear about the great impact this technology can have in food safety by allowing companies to prevent instead of react to challenges.

In this episode:

💩 [01:28] Meet Patrick Quade

💩 [03:16] How Iwaspoisoned.com came to be

💩 [07:43] Food poisoning reporting and underreporting

💩 [09:56] How Iwaspoisoned.com evolved into a business

💩 [12:14] Concerns around the name Iwaspoisoned

💩 [14:03] How they were able to foresee Chipotle’s series of foodborne illness outbreaks

💩 [17:40] How they deal with inaccurate reports

💩 [22:10] Making it easy to report

💩 [23:31] Study on Norovirus outbreaks and Iwaspoisoned.com reports

💩 [27:07] Iwaspoisoned.com around the world

💩 [28:16] Handling unusual or criminal reports

💩 [30:22] Brand-specific insights

💩 [32:47] Encouraging consumer, government, and industry participation

Disclaimer: Episode title and content do not constitute legal or health advice.

Resources from this episode

Check out iwaspoisoned.com.

You will find the post on LinkedIn that helps explain what Patrick’s B2B company, DineSafe, does here.

Catch up with the episode Matt and Francine talk about a woman charged with murder for allegedly poisoning her ex-husband's family with Beef Wellington: Episode 38.

Noteworthy quotes from this episode

“We detected the first major Chipotle outbreak in real time, Simi Valley in 2015, and most of their subsequent outbreaks in real time. They lost 10 billion in market cap from top to bottom, from their peak at the start of their string of food poisoning outbreaks to the bottom.” – Patrick Quade

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