Risky or Not?
Don Schaffner and Ben Chapman
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Episodes
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DEC 5, 2025
859. Medium Rare Duck Breast and HPAI
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of contracting high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) from medium rare duck breast.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Food Safety Talk 251: Too Many Brooms — Food Safety Talk
- Instagram Duck Breast Video
- Thermal Inactivation of H5N1 High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus in Naturally Infected Chicken Meat - ScienceDirect
- Rapid risk assessment to address emerging concerns of HPAI in raw and pasteurized milk | PLOS One
- Avian Influenza | Washington State Department of Agriculture
- Avian Influenza | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- USDA Questions and Answers: Food Safety and Avian Influenza - April 2015
19 MIN
DEC 1, 2025
857. Water Bathed Canned Turkey Noodle Soup
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of turkey noodle soup that's been boiling water bath canning for 2 hours.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Canning - National Center for Home Food Preservation
- Ball® Blue Book Guide to Preserving 38th Edition, Recipe Book | Ball
- Iowa State Factsheet, Botulism
- Heat-Resistance Studies on Spores of Putrefactive Anaerobes in Relation to Determination of Safe Processes for Canned Foods, 1938.
- In Memoriam Terence Roberts (4 October 2024) – ICMSF | International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods
22 MIN
NOV 28, 2025
856. Feeding Sealed Byheart Baby Formula to a Baby
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
16 MIN
NOV 26, 2025
855. Cooking Raw Turkey to 155 °F
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
9 MIN