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🌍 Ever wonder in what ways food safety rules differ wildly between the UK and US?

In this eye-opening episode of Beyond Data Management, host Cameron Garrison sits down with Graeme Mitchell, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health at Liverpool John Moores University, for a transatlantic deep dive.

What You’ll Learn:

Why the US is “50 little countries” when it comes to food codes (and why the UK isn’t)  The UK’s “Primary Authority” secret to consistent inspections nationwide
Covid lessons: trust, hypocrisy, and the Boris Johnson party scandal
From cholera pumps to mouse-in-bread nightmares: Graham’s wildest field stories
Green funerals, AI in inspections, housing inequality, and the future of EH

🎙️ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro & UK vs US Food Law Chaos
5:12 Covid, Brexit & Political Trust
12:40 Graham’s Accidental EH Career
18:22 The Invisible Profession & Zombie Apocalypses
25:10 Mouse in Sliced Bread (Yes, Really)
32:15 AI: Friend or Job-Killer for Inspectors?
40:00 Green Burials & Death Avoidance
48:30 Housing, Life Expectancy & Einstein’s Definition of “Environment”
👉 Watch Next:

“AI in Food Safety Inspections: The Future Is Here”
“Green Funerals: Eco-Friendly or Regulatory Nightmare?”

💬 Comment Below:
Would you rather enforce in the UK’s uniform system or the US’s wild west?
📌 Connect with Graham:
Liverpool John Moores University | Search “Graham Mitchell Environmental Health”
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#EnvironmentalHealth #FoodSafety #PublicHealth #UKvsUSA #Podcast

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Happy Halloween! 🎃 In this spooky bonus episode of the Beyond Data Management Podcast (powered by HS GovTech), host Cameron Garrison and producer Christina Miller bring you real-life ghost stories straight from the Reddit health-inspector community — plus a very special guest: Vinny the Skeleton 🦴 (complete with a hot date named Audrey).

Originally pitched in August by Tina (who knew inspectors had creepy tales), we asked the 6,000+ members of the r/EnvironmentalHealth subreddit:

“Tell us your haunted restaurant or facility ghost stories!”

You delivered — and we’re reading the best ones on air.

👻 Featured Chills:

🎃 A 1700s catering kitchen where a shadowy figure in black vanished into a storage room…

🎃 A bar basement with 3 confirmed deaths, a porcelain doll in a wheelchair that turned to face the inspector…

🎃 Utensils flying, cutting boards moving, and Ghost Hunters filming — with zero evidence… until the inspectors saw it themselves.

🎙️ On Set Today:

🦴 Cameron Garrison (Host)
🦴 Christina Miller (Producer & Halloween Mastermind)
🦴 Vinny the Skeleton - (Guest Co-Host, arthritis and all)
🦴 David Styles (Control Room Wizard behind the spooky graphics)

From creaky wooden hatches leading to spider-infested basements to hidden daycare rooms behind fake walls, health inspectors see it all — including things that shouldn’t be there.

“I saw the doll facing me… when I came back around the circle, it was facing me again.” 😱

🎃 Bonus Fun:

Vinny gets a girlfriend (Audrey the carnivorous plant)

Puns, full-size candy bars, and THC jello-shot neighbors

Teaser: Next Tuesday — Graham Mitchell (EH thought leader and frequent BBC contributor) shares his story and brings some great pictures including a mouse baked into a loaf of bread 🐭🍞

Please remember to help us out and like, comment your own ghost story, and subscribe for weekly episodes every Tuesday!  Tag a health inspector who’s seen something spooky. 👇



#HealthInspector #GhostStories #HauntedRestaurant #HalloweenPodcast #EnvironmentalHealth #PublicHealthHeroes #BeyondDataManagement

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In this Spotlight segment from the Beyond Data Management Podcast we talk about a health inspector viewer submission of a video of the nastiest thing they came across in a restaurant - McDonald's"  kitchen during a health inspection.

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In this segment from the full episode.  We discuss a side bet between two health inspectors as to whether observing an employee in a restaurant kitchen using a pocket knife to cut potato's is a health code violations.

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Today's episode features a panel of EH professionals, and former health inspectors, answering viewer questions about health inspection scenario's including:

"I observed someone in restaurant kitchen cutting a potato with a pocket knife - is it a violation?" 

Also, check out the video at the end - of a violation an inspector ranks as one of the top 3 nastiest all time violations they've seen.

The panel includes:
Caitlin Gappa the founding director of the Douglas County Colorado Environmental Health Department.  You can reach Caitlin at caitlin.gappa@hscloudsuite.com 

Melissa Rogerson, former supervisor at the El Paso County Colorado Environmental Health Department.  You can reach Melissa at melissa.rogerson@hscloudsuite.com

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On this episode, Cameron chats with HS's very own Kristen Geary about her life as an environmental health professional and restaurant inspector.

A former Environmental Health Inspector and supervisor for Jackson County, Missouri, and still currently the manager of the State of Missouri Environmental Health Association.  Kristen dives into her story of working at the county office as an admin, she took a leap of faith and tells us more about how she fell in love with EH even after the Field Training, Inspections, Science, and so much more! 

Kristen also shares some of the unbelievable stories of situations she's encountered as a health inspector.

The BEST PART?! Kristen, is one of HSGT's Senior Project Managers, using her real work EH experience, including implementing HS as a client at her FORMER agency client, Kristen is paying it forward helping EH agencies around the country take their agency and data BEYOND! As not just a Vendor, we are a Partner!

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In this special segment, live from NEHA AEC 2025 in Phoenix, we chat with Shelly Wallingford the Director of Food Safety at Sprouts Farmers Market, a supermarket chain with 443 locations in 24 states.  Shelly has enjoyed a long career in environmental health, working for years with agencies on the regulatory side - as an inspector - before going to the private sector.

Shelly shares her journey and discusses the criticality of industry and regulators working as partners in the interest of public health and safety.

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In this special live segment from Phoenix, we chat with Randall Barnes the director of the Ashtabula County Ohio Environmental Health Department about his EH journey and his thoughts on the 2025 AEC.

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In this special segment of the Beyond Data Management Podcast LIVE from NEHA AEC 2025 in Phoenix we visit with Toni Ousley from Pueblo County Colorado Environmental Health Department.  Toni discusses the never ending adventure of being an EH professional and also talks about the importance of properly managing your agency's data.

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In this segment live from Phoenix we talk to NEHA's own Evan Suttell - Entreprenurial Zone Assistant with NEHA.  We discuss ab exciting new self assessment tool NEHA released for agencies at the 2025 AEC.  We also talk about his experience as a Jeopardy champion, earning $20,200, and he gives us a fascinating peak behind the scenes on how the process of being on Jeopardy works .  Evan is a real asset to the EH community and we enjoyed chatting with him in the exhibit hall.

You can see Evan's Jeopardy stats, including the questions board for each episode at:
https://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=9003
https://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=9004

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