He's the Sinatra of salmonella, the Elvis of E. coli. He's food-safety educator Carl Winter, and he wants to sing his way into your stomach. As a toxicologist and director of the UC Davis FoodSafe program, Winter has studied, written and lectured about a host of food-safety issues ranging from pesticide residues to microbial contamination. Now he hopes to use music to spread those messages to students and the general public. Gathering a handful of vintage popular songs and tinkering with their lyrics, he has produced a CD parody called "Stayin' Alive." Consider how he's taken the words right out of the BeeGees' mouths and kindly replaced them with the following refrain: Don't want hepatitis or that gastroenteritis I'm just stayin' alive, stayin' alive Scrubbin' off my veggies and I'm heatin' all my burgers up to one eighty-five, one eighty-five Ah,ha,ha,ha, stayin' alive. Other selections include "USDA," taken from "YMCA;" "Rat Number 49," from "Love Potion Number Nine;" and "Clonin' DNA" from -- you guessed it -- "Surfin' U.S.A." A one-man band, Winter made the not-for-profit CD at home with only a computer and synthesizer, which electronically mimics the sounds of more than 600 musical instruments and special effects. He's performed some of the songs at professional meetings and hopes they will be useful for future classroom lectures. "Science tends to be pretty straightforward," he says. "Presenting things in non-traditional ways can be very effective."