Don Schaffner and Ben Chapman

Food Safety Talk

Science EN ↓ 300 episodes

Don and Ben talk to each other and the occasional guest about food safety in the news. They also respond to listener feedback.

Author

Don Schaffner and Ben Chapman

Category

Science

Podcast website

www.foodsafetytalk.com

Latest episode

Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

Food Safety Talk 108: Hyperbole and Fire Ants 20.09.2016

Ben and Don are joined on this episode by special guest John "if I was a rock **star** you would have heard of me" Roderick. John does not like potatoes, but he does ask lots of great questions. * [Water activity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_activity) * [Clostridium perfringens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_...

Food Safety Talk 107: Univalve Mallets 24.08.2016

Show note links to follow along at home: * [Publix Super Markets](http://www.publix.com/) * [Lee-Ann Jaykus](https://fbns.ncsu.edu/faculty-directory/lee-ann-jaykus/) * [Michael Roberson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-roberson-97a58a15) * [Wal-Mart's chicken safety program shows significant results](http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2016/08/130453/) * [Serotypes Profile of Salmonella Isolates fro...

Food Safety Talk 106: Mouth spit 16.08.2016

Veronica Bryant (@NoroNerd) Foley (filmmaking) Food Safety Talk 23: Hello? Hello? Stalkers? Or closing the barn door after stepping on the cat mango st louis Compass Rose Minnesota Food Safety Brian Sauders Sugarfire Smokehouse BBQ The Crack Fox Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes Watch Portlandia Preach the Gospel of Raw Milk - Eater Chapel Hill Creamery recalls all the cheese after link to salmo...

Food Safety Talk 105: I'm Level 8, John 27.07.2016

Quorn Lynn McEntire, Porcelain Doll Artist Dr Lynn McIntyre | Harper Adams University Canadian Tire Sandy McTire Canadian Tire And so it begins … The Talk Show Ep. 161, With John Moltz Sling Blade (1996) Sling TV A Microbiological Comparison of Poultry Products Obtained from Farmers’ Markets and Supermarkets in Pennsylvania - Scheinberg - 2013 - Journal of Food Safety - Wiley Online Library Pokemo...

Food Safety Talk 104: Shorter Stacks! 09.07.2016

Show notes so you can follow along at home: * [Fox News host Bret Baier grills the Dalai Lama: "Have you ever seen the movie Caddyshack"](http://www.salon.com/2016/06/17/fox_news_host_bret_baier_grills_the_dalai_lama_have_you_ever_seen_the_movie_caddyshack/) * [Caddyshack - Bill Murray's story about the Dalai Lama - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X48G7Y0VWW4&feature=youtu.be) * [Toque -...

Food Safety Talk 103: Like Wolverine 03.07.2016

Wolverine (character) Infrared thermometer Advanced Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute Canada Day The Newlywed Game Neil Young: Helpless Omemee, Ontario Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography: Jimmy McDonough Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell / Panoply on iTunes Source of CRF Listeria remains a mystery Neilson brand Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk recalled due t...

Food Safety Talk 102: Flour Power 03.06.2016

Links for topics discussed on this episode: * [Jeffrey LeJeune](https://vet.osu.edu/about-us/people/jeffrey-lejeune) * [NC State University](https://www.ncsu.edu/) * [WWDC - Apple Developer Conference](https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/) * [No 5K Thunderbolt Display With Integrated GPU Coming at WWDC - Mac Rumors](http://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/02/no-5k-thunderbolt-display-with-gpu-wwdc/) * [This...

Food Safety Talk 101: The Dalmatian episode 10.05.2016

Show notes so you can follow along at home. The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 153, With Ben Thompson The Aerobie® AeroPress® Coffee Maker Amazon.com: Porlex Mini Stainless Steel Coffee Grinder: Manual Coffee Grinders: Kitchen & Dining Beeturia The bowel movement beet test: How to measure your digestive ‘transit time’ Beets & Blood in the Stool John Oliver exposes how the media turns scientific studies into “mo...

Food Safety Talk 100: No buns in the bathroom 29.04.2016

In keeping with our current practive, here is a bulleted list of link to the topics we mentioned on the show: Cyndi Lauper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Caddyshack (1980) - IMDb Gunga Galunga clip on YouTube Veronica Bryant (@NoroNerd) on Twitter Conference for Food Protection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Noro Couch (@norocouch) on Twitter Barbara Kowalcyk and CFI Farm To Table Talk pod...

Food Safety Talk 99: Are you familiar with the Haugh Unit? 13.04.2016

Tassimo AeroPress Wee-Bey Brice Silentó - Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) John J. Guzewich Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby Basset Hound Starbucks Tumblers, Travel Mugs Haugh unit Howell Living History Farm Jasper Guy Woodroof (1900-1998) BRC Food Safety Americas > Home Carol Wallace University of Central Lancashire Food Safety Management MSc | postgraduate degree course | University of Central Lanca...

Food Safety Talk 98: Klouty with a chance of meatballs 11.04.2016

This week Don and Ben open with the usual popular culture talk and then move into a discussion of Norovirus laden couches, Chipotle (again), and the safety of petting zoos. From there the discussion moves to lady balls, duck sliders, balls to the wall, and Blue Bell Ice Cream. The After Dark features more cowbell.

Food Safety Talk 97: One Maritime province at a time 31.03.2016

Show notes so you can follow along at home: Curling For Dummies Cheat Sheet - For Dummies Baltimore woman injured by exploding toilet files lawsuit | Fox News Fecal bacteriotherapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia How to Eat Avocado Seeds for Nutrition | LIVESTRONG.COM Antioxidant activity and phenolic content of selected fruit seeds FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE LYRICS - I-95 Food Safety Talk 11: Somewher...

Food Safety Talk 96: Boom goes the dynamite 29.03.2016

The guys are on a roll. They are very happy that they are releasing new episodes consistently. The show opens with a discussion of topics like Boom, Boom Goes the Dynamite, Dyn-o-mite, Beastie Boys, William Shatner, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, The Avett Brothers, The Sadies, and The Best of Little Feat. They quickly transition with the Maytag Raw Milk Blue Cheese recall by Whole Foods. Ben says that the...

Food Safety Talk 95: What’s the right number of logs? 16.03.2016

West Coast hip hop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Unboxing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia MattyB - Right Now I’m Missing You (ft. Brooke Adee) - YouTube Food Safety Talk 85: I’m the jerky police What to do in 2015: Your statistics diary - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science Poultry Science (PO) ANALYSIS: Chipotle is a victim of corporate sabotage… biotech industry fo...

Food Safety Talk 94: Bagpiping hot 13.03.2016
Food Safety Talk 93: Does your dog poop outside? 07.03.2016

Show notes so you can follow along at home: International Association for Food Protection Reconcilable Differences #16: Ancient Bird - Relay FM Tom Jones (@mmbagelz) | Twitter Conference for Food Protection Chipotle may be safer than ever. Seriously! Health department inspection criteria more likely to be associated with outbreak restaurants in Minnesota. - PubMed - NCBI Chipotle will close Feb. 8...

Food Safety Talk 92: So we can't use that rice? 04.03.2016
Food Safety Talk 91: Chipotle: The musical 03.03.2016

Prisencolinensinainciusol (with lyrics) - YouTube Watch Nespresso From Saturday Night Live - NBC.com Glengarry Glen Christmas | Saturday Night Live - Yahoo Screen Episodes - Here’s The Thing Prisencolinensinainciusol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Adriano Celetano - Prisencolinensinainciusol - YouTube Food Safety Talk 9: Two monitors and a microphone — Food Safety Talk Paul’s Boutique - Wikipe...

Food Safety Talk 90: What if it's a service dragon? 25.02.2016

The guys begin the show by recommending two albums by Willie Nelson: Yesterday’s Wine and Half Nelson. The conversation moves quickly to the E. coli O157: H7 outbreak related to the chicken salad distributed by Costco. The celery and onion mix, provided by Taylor Farms, was the ingredient contaminated with the pathogen. The scope of the recall was large because it affected so many large retailers....

Food Safety Talk 89: On a scale from 1 to 11 24.02.2016

Show notes and links so you can follow along at home: Master of None (TV Series 2015– ) -IMDb Inside Out (2015) on iTunes Dawn French - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Doc Martin (TV Series 2004– ) - IMDb Official Dr Martens Store - US THE CRANBERRIES LYRICS - The Rebels Dolores O’Riordan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thanksgiving goofiness | barfblog Conference for Food Protection Internati...

Food Safety Talk 88: Canadian Halloween 18.02.2016

The podcast begins with Ben complaining about the clutter in his office, and Don about his downgraded airline membership status (unlike Ben who became a gold member in Delta airline after his trip to Dubai for the International Food Safety Conference). The show starts with a listener question about the shelf life of candy, which is shelf stable from a microbiological perspective because of a low w...

Food Safety Talk 87: A blue ribbon and $10 competition 15.02.2016
Food Safety Talk 86: Low viscosity vomit 19.01.2016

In an effort to get caught up and get some shows out, we have elected to post today show notes in a more old school style. * [Tripe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe) * [Andouille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andouille) * [Skype Outage: An Update, and an Apology](http://blogs.skype.com/2015/09/22/skype-outage-an-update-and-an-apology/) * [iOS 9 - What’s New](http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new...

Food Safety Talk 85: I'm the jerky police 18.12.2015

Ben and Don host a special guest, Dan Benjamin, podcasting pioneer and founder of 5by5, the inspiration for Food Safety Talk. After sharing what they were eating (because that makes for a good podcast) and Ben and Don tell the Food Safety Talk origin story about Episode Zero as part of the IAFP 100 year anniversary StoryCorps project. The guys talk with Dan about the podcast content niche, who the...

Food Safety Talk 84: All the Great Journals 06.12.2015

The podcast starts (as it often does) with a discussion of music, and today it’s jazz and rap. From there it moves to podcasts, then back to music, specifically the Violent Femmes concert Ben attended with his family. The transition to Food Science talk begins with a discussion of improvisation during public presentations, and the Merlin Mann © style of presentation. The conversation switches to s...

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