[Hulka]

I didn’t think Guinness World Records was still tracked eating events, as the health risk of injecting all sorts of “edible” and inedible things could kill you and it didn’t show any particular skill.

[SAJ]

The Scoville scale is an objective measure of how 'hot' a pepper is, and Guinness still tracks the biggest, wettest, hottest, and so forth. The bhuts are the hottest peppers in the world, no close second, and so belong in the book.

Note that the article said nothing about this woman gaining entry into Guinness.