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Author: Don Schaffner and Ben Chapman

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Risky or Not is a short podcast from Professor Ben Chapman from North Carolina State University, and Dr. Don Schaffner from Rutgers University. Dr. Don and Professor Chapman promise to do their best not to waffle, dither, dissemble or equivocate, and to give straight up answers about whether something is risky or not.
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Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risk of eating sun pasta incubated for five hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 brunchwithbabs on Instagram: SUN ☀️ PASTA SAUCE 🍝 you'll never make pasta in the summer the same again. Making this poolside at my daughters home! A family favorite ☀️… Veronica (@squirrelchomp) / Twitter What's all the fuss about San Marzano Tomatoes?? Aren't they just another Tomato? Can you tell me a bit about em please.
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating food held out of temperature control for 6 hours. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Merch — Risky or Not? Hors d'oeuvre - Wikipedia Mini Ham Quiches Recipe: How to Make It Frank's RedHot® Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe | Frank's RedHot® US ComBase Food Safety Talk 79: You're Into Botulism Country (with Merlin Mann) — Food Safety Talk
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating frozen food from 1972. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Merch — Risky or Not? Lee Katz 🍞 on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman I don't know if I hear enough about obviously risky foods on #riskyornot. Has anyone has sent this to you yet? https://t.co/pAdnER471x https://t.co/G3IT52rJ3V" / Twitter Woman Finds Food in Grandparents' Freezer Dating Back to 1972 Then Defrosts It
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of feeding recalled sealed Byheart baby formula to a baby. Fedica text: Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ ByHeart recalls organic baby formula amid infant botulism outbreak | AP News Infant Botulism Outbreak Linked to Infant Formula, November 2025 | Botulism | CDC Seven-Year Case-Control Study in California of Risk Factors for Infant Botulism - ScienceDirect Elevated incidence of infant botulism in a 17-county area of the Mid-Atlantic region in the United States, 2000–2019, including association with soil types | Applied and Environmental Microbiology Tyndallization - Wikipedia Outbreak Investigation of Infant Botulism: Infant Formula (November 2025) | FDA
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cooking raw turkey to only 155 °F Fedica text: Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Alton Brown Cooks Food | Episode 1: The Big Bird - YouTube Archive: National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) | Food Safety and Inspection Service Does Anybody Remember Laughter? - YouTube FSIS Cooking Guideline for Meat and Poultry Products (Revised Appendix A) December, 2021 Response to the questions posed by the Food Safety and Inspection Service regarding consumer guidelines for the safe cooking of poultry products - PubMed Response to the Questions Posed by the Food Safety and Inspection Service Regarding Consumer Guidelines for the Safe Cooking of Poultry Products - ScienceDirect thanksgiving - Risky or Not? Why Does Turkey Make You Sleepy? It Actually Doesn't  
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making rare roast beef. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Chef John's Perfect Prime Rib Recipe John Mitzewich - Allrecipes Supplemental Questions and Answers on Descriptive Designation for Needle-Or Blade - Tenderized (Mechanically Tenderized) Beef Products USDA Finalizes Rule to Require Labeling of Mechanically Tenderized Beef Products | Food Safety and Inspection Service FSIS Cooking Guideline for Meat and Poultry Products (Revised Appendix A) December, 2021 Dr. Hook - Wikipedia Dr. John - Wikipedia John Mitzewich - Wikipedia Predictive Model for Growth of Staphylococcus aureus on Raw Pork, Ham, and Sausage - ScienceDirect Mr. Mom: "220, 221… Whatever it takes…" - YouTube APPENDIX 4: Bacterial Pathogen Growth and Inactivation
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using a swiss army knife toothpick. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼  Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼   Victorinox Swiss Army Pioneer Alox Pocket Knife | REEDS Jewelers Victorinox Swiss Army Spartan Knife in Red | REEDS Jewelers Swiss Army knife - Wikipedia Mammoth Tooth Swiss Army Knife How to Clean the Swiss Army Knife Toothpick (EN). - YouTube Gerber Stainless Steel Folding Razor Knife Model 8970622A LOT OF 3 | eBay 847. Using a "Found" Pocket Mouth Guard — Risky or Not? DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Yo Home To Bel Air (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Theme Song) - YouTube
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating hand sliced Prosciutto ham stored at room temperature for months. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼  Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼   Prosciutto - Wikipedia Prosciutto Di Parma Specifications Influence of Water Activity on Growth and Enterotoxin Formation by Staphylococcus aureus in Foods - Troller- 1975 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library Modeling the Effect of Water Activity, pH, and Temperature on the Probability of Enterotoxin A Production by Staphylococcus aureus - ScienceDirect Combined Effect of Water Activity, pH and Sub‐optimal Temperature on Growth and Enterotoxin Production of Staphylococcus aureus - Notermans - 1983 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library Staphylococcus aureus survival, staphylococcal enterotoxin production and shelf stability of country-cured hams manufactured under different processing procedures - ScienceDirect Imported food risk statement - Uncooked slow dry cured ready-to-eat ham and staphylococcal enterotoxin Validation of Dry Cured Ham Process for Control of Pathogens - Reynolds - 2001 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library 13th ICPMF The Cure - Pictures Of You - YouTube Ben Folds Five - Battle Of Who Could Care Less (Official Video) - YouTube Ben Folds Five - Wikipedia
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming in date but fizzy grapefruit juice from a mechanically stressed container. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼  Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼   There's No Crying in Baseball - A League of Their Own (5/8) Movie CLIP (1992) HD - YouTube It's Not My Fault But It Is My Problem | Psychology Today Are the Twins From the Netflix Documentary Experiment Still Vegan? - Netflix Tudum Charlie Kalish | LinkedIn Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice | Florida's Natural Fruit Juice Spoilage by Alicyclobacillus: Detection and Control Methods—A Comprehensive Review Alicyclobacillus - Wikipedia Find Salvage Grocers and Buy Salvage Food in North Carolina Prevalence, concentration, spoilage, and mitigation of Alicyclobacillus spp. in tropical and subtropical fruit juice concentrates - ScienceDirect Bacterial Spoilage of Citrus Products at pH Lower than 3.5 - ScienceDirect The pH of beverages available to the American consumer - PMC Fruits are vehicles of drug-resistant pathogenic Candida tropicalis - PubMed
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating dishwasher lasagna (aka lasagna alla lavastoviglie) Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼  Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼   753. Re-Heating Leftovers Indefinitely and the Lasagna of Theseus — Risky or Not? 195. Dishwasher Salmon — Risky or Not? How To Make Lasagna Without An Oven, with Peter Sagal : How To Do Everything : NPR Transcript for How To Make Lasagna Without An Oven, with Peter Sagal : How To Do Everything : NPR Reduction of Salmonella enterica and Pathogenic Escherichia coli in Pasta by Using Common Cooking Methods Microbiological Quality of Raw Dried Pasta from the German Market, with Special Emphasis on Cronobacter Species - Akineden - 2015 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of Eating a Cardboard Box of Hollywood Chewing-Gum, Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼  Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼   Is it safe to eat cardboard? : r/stupidquestions Hollywood 2fresh (FreshenUp) Chewing Gum - Peppermint | EVN Green Mint Chewing-Gum Hollywood | Buy Online | My French Grocery Full article: Food contact materials: an effect-based evaluation of the presence of hazardous chemicals in paper and cardboard packaging Pica: A Common Condition that is Commonly Missed - An Update Review | Bentham Science Publishers Pica practices, anemia, and oral health outcomes: a systematic review | BMC Oral Health
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cooking stuffing inside the turkey. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼  Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼   John Wyatt on X: "Today I get to enjoy the yearly tradition where my father gives me a hard time about insisting that stuffing be cooked in the bird when I should "know better" because I'm a health inspector (It's my favourite food, and the risk is easily managed and outweighed by the benefit)" / X How to Cook Turkey Stuffing Safely | USDA Does anybody remember laughter?? : r/ledzeppelin Food Safety Talk 53: Raw Milk Hamsterdam — Food Safety Talk 840. DIY French Burger Kit — Risky or Not? Butterball Cook from Frozen Premium Whole Turkey, 10-14 lbs - Harris Teeter
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using a mouthguard from the coaches mouthguard pocket. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼  Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼   The Hockey Song by Warren Zevon - YouTube The Planet Smashers - Uncle Gordie - YouTube Amazon.com: Zen Driving: Be a Buddha Behind the Wheel of Your Automobile: 9780345353504: Berger, K.T.: Books 316. Using Cups to Scoop Water Out of a Shared Bowl — Risky or Not? Microbiota Found in Protective Athletic Mouthguards - PMC
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from spraying mouthguard with ethanol and propanol. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼  Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼   Isopropanol poisoning: Clinical Toxicology: Vol 52, No 5 Clean with 'alcohol'? | TrumpetBoards SISU Fresh Cinnamint 1 oz. Mouthguard Spray : Target SafeJawz Mouthguard Disinfectant Spray. Mint Flavoured – Fighters Inc. - Martial Arts Equipment
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating dinner into which a cat dropped a mouse. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼  Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼   Security camera catches cat dropping mouse into human family's dinner - UPI.com Food Defect Levels Handbook | FDA Survival of leptospires in the environment - Leptospirosis Information Ecologic studies of rodent reservoirs: their relevance for human health - PMC Controlling Wild Rodent Infestations | Healthy Pets, Healthy People | CDC
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating candy given to you by a streaker. Fedica text: Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼  Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Streaking - Wikipedia What was it like to take the final exam at Dartmouth where '[t]wo women streaked […], throwing out candy'? - Quora Ian McKellen (Gandalf) takes a break on his MacBook Pro while filming "The Hobbit" : r/Moviesinthemaking
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating a properly cooked isopod fish tongue parasite. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Fish at the grocery store had one of those isopod tongue parasites : r/mildlyinteresting Cymothoa exigua - Wikipedia Parasite Replaces A Fish's Tongue : r/ScavengersReign Giant isopod - Wikipedia Tongue-eating parasites inspire new horror movie | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks associated with freezing parboiled potatoes in bulk so they cool slowly. Dr. Don - risky ☣️  Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Large Outbreak of Botulism: The Hazardous Baked Potato | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic Freezing New Irish Potatoes - National Center for Home Food Preservation Parboiling - Wikipedia Black Sabbath – War Pigs Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using watered down hand soap. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Influence of Soap Characteristics and Food Service Facility Type on the Degree of Bacterial Contamination of Open, Refillable Bulk Soaps - ScienceDirect
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating food from a DIY french burger kit. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ DIY Burger Kit in France : r/mildlyinteresting Monty Python - The French Taunter - HD WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES - YouTube Fresh Ground Beef Color: A Consumer Guide Costco's New Pre-Made Burgers Leave Much To Be Desired New at our Costco - Verona, WI. Bacon Cheddar Burger kits. 🍔 : r/Costco Gasoline Grill - Our burger kit is making a comeback for Super… | Facebook
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