Life is seemingly perfect in the quiet town of Marshall Minnesota, with its gentle rolling hills and kind, hard-working people.  Unassuming. Certainly not the place for national news ...  Yet it serves as the setting for one of the biggest salmonella outbreaks in the US Not from chicken or maybe even eggs, rather, America's favorite dessert: Ice Cream.Our episode follows the story of Schwan's Ice Cream, which was known for its excellence in quality and trust amongst its customers. This 1994 outbreak of Salmonella shook that trust that had been built over the prior decades, demonstrating the necessary actions that liable parties must take in re-establishing that trust. This was also a landmark case in laying the foundation of real governmental regulation over meat, poultry, and dairy products.  With the outbreak being caused by fully preventable actions, this is a story of trying to — if we've established thisnow over 3 decades ago, why are food-born illnesses still prevalent today? It is both our hope and our goal to establish the reasoning for that throughout the episode. We hope you enjoy it!Produced by Syndey Hahn, Joseph Lee and Fernanda Madraza These podcast episodes were created by members of the 2025 Winter Capstone course in the Human Biology and Society major at UCLA's Institute for Society and Genetics (<a href="https://socgen.ucla.edu/">https://socgen.ucla.edu/</a>). The faculty sponsor is Christopher Kelty. For questions or concerns email ckelty@ucla.edu.

Life is seemingly perfect in the quiet town of Marshall Minnesota, with its gentle rolling hills and kind, hard-working people.  Unassuming. Certainly not the place for national news ...  Yet it serves as the setting for one of the biggest salmonella outbreaks in the US Not from chicken or maybe even eggs, rather, America's favorite dessert: Ice Cream. Our episode follows the story of Schwan's Ice Cream, which was known for its excellence in quality and trust amongst its customers. ...

Hitchin' a Ride: the 1994 Schwan's Salmonella Outbreak