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

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Science

Podcast website

www.foodsafetytalk.com

Latest episode

Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

Food Safety Talk 208: Poopers on the Fritz 17.04.2020

This episode was recorded on Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2020 after Don and Ben had just returned from what they now know was their last two trips before everything was COVID-19 cancelled. Since they have more fresh corona-content to deliver, posting of this episode got preempted, but now that things are more corona-normal, they're getting around to getting this one out. The show starts with the usual non...

Food Safety Talk 207: Keeping Food Out of Toilet Rooms 15.04.2020

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Food Safety Talk 206: The Truth Is Out There 01.04.2020

Don and Ben get together for their second podcast during peak pandemic. There's lots of TV talk at the beginning, since Ben is watching lots of TV with his kids. Ben also talks about other stuff he's doing with his family like playing board games. From there the guys transition to the work that they've been doing in response to the pandemic, including Don's adventures with a viral tweet, and how B...

Food Safety Talk 205: [Cough] [Record Scratch] 18.03.2020

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Food Safety Talk 204: How Percents Work 29.02.2020

Don and Ben open the episode with some productivity and technology talk before segueing into fake conferences and more talk about Ben's new research kitchens. Don asks Ben for his advice on sous vide cooking. Don provides a update on his visit to Chipotle HQ (spoiler alert, he's a fan now). The discussion moves to leafy green safety before Don wraps up with the story of another visit, this time to...

Food Safety Talk 203: Never Met a Gord I Didn't Like 17.02.2020

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Food Safety Talk 202: We Are All Waiting for the Return 01.02.2020

The show opens with the discussion of construction near Ben's office, followed by a brief digression into what the guys are watching on TV. The talk about food safety begins with how one might prepare ancient Mesopotamia dishes. Then the guys talk in detail about a cut fruit outbreak that occurred at the end of 2019 caused by a small company near Rutgers University. There is a brief discussion of...

Food Safety Talk 201: CDC Says It Was You 03.01.2020

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Food Safety Talk 200: Room Audio 16.12.2019

We recorded this episode live in Louisville Kentucky at a Rapid Response Teams program meeting. Unfortunately there was a significant problem with recording the audio for this episode. Evidence suggests (listen carefully at the beginning of the repording) that the audio engineers recorded the room audio, instead of the input from our microphones. Thanks to some Herculean efforts by our friend...

Food Safety Talk 199: Possum Droppers 27.11.2019

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Food Safety Talk 198: Very Old Molasses (with Rachael Jackson) 11.11.2019

Today the guys are joined by special guest Rachael Jackson from the Eat Or Toss website. Rachel talks about how she got started doing her website, and the guys chime in with how some of their favorite extension questions have been answered on the site. From there the discussion turns to food waste in general, and some of the initiatives and activities all three have been involved with on the topic...

Food Safety Talk 197: 51 years of food safety (recorded live in Sun Valley, ID) 25.10.2019

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Food Safety Talk 196: Superintendent of Judges 17.10.2019

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Food Safety Talk 195: Three Wok Podcast 08.10.2019

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Food Safety Talk 194: Eight Days of Poop 25.09.2019

This is a special live episode recorded at the Refrigerated Foods Association Fall Symposium at Rutgers University. Ben and Don talk to a room full of food industry professionals, most of whom know what podcast is, but who are not regular listeners to Food Safety Talk. As usual the live episode opens with a survey regarding podcasts and how much the audience knows about them. After Don briefly cor...

Food Safety Talk 193: E dash Coli 16.09.2019

Don and Ben start the show with a listener question about the safety of cooking already dead lobsters, which leads into some personal stories about bad seafood (and good seafood, like those Des Moines scallops). The guys then tackle a bunch of listener feedback related to internalization of pathogens in produce, pancake shooters and a follow-up of last episode's boil water advisory excitement. The...

Food Safety Talk 192: Foot Safety Talk 07.09.2019

The show opens with some hurricane safety talk, but quickly moves to discussion of an email that Ben received last night relating to some microbiological tests on water and hypothetically related illnesses. The guys do a deep dive on communicating risk in the midst of uncertainty before moving to listen or feedback. Listener feedback focuses on fake whiskey, standards for foreign objects in food,...

Food Safety Talk 191: Make KABOBs with Gordon 27.08.2019

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Food Safety Talk 190: Once My Taste Went Weird (with Daniel Jalkut) 15.08.2019

Today the guys were joined by software developer Daniel Jalkut for a wide ranging discussion on food safety including whether the inside leaves of a head of lettuce need to be washed, whether something can ever be 100% safe, the importance and origins of Mann's Assumption, how what people see in the grocery store informs their perception of food safety, the risks of microorganisms on the outside o...

Food Safety Talk 189: Guerrilla Sous Vide Is A Go (Live from Renton Technical College) 12.08.2019

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Food Safety Talk 188: Cook a Pizza With a Pizza 02.08.2019

The show opens with the guys talking about the recent IAFP meeting, as well as the usual assorted miscellanea. Ben wants to talk about when to discard cutting boards, what to do about a broken wrist watch, and a food worker with MRSA. From their the guys clear out all of the backlog of listener feedback, including storage of fancy candied cherries, a recent article flies, E. coli, feedlots and pro...

Food Safety Talk 187: Must Split and Toast 30.07.2019

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Food Safety Talk 186: This is a free snake! 04.07.2019

The show opens with Don's asking Ben to buy him some gift cards. Ben is also having a holiday party six, and the guys spend a little bit of time talking about the media there watching before the talk turns to food safety. Listener feedback leads to a discussion of the risks posed by leaving foods out of temperature control, which foods pose an increased risk of harboring Listeria, appropriate labe...

Food Safety Talk 185: Hot Diapers 19.06.2019

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Food Safety Talk 184: Pull Your Pork Properly 05.06.2019

The show opens with some brief news about the recent Apple keynote. From there the discussion turns to books about food safety and Don's recent travels. Then the guys jumped right into listener feedback talking about fictional petfood safety, fake food, food fraud, school gardens, cooking pasta inside a cheese wheel, using pressure cookers to sterilize microbiological media, conservative views on...

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