The Rotten Apple Food Safety Podcast

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Worst and weirdest food frauds of 2025 * What’s next for The Rotten Apple * Spotify for food safety nerds * Food fraud alert for coffee beans 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Iss...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Weird and (not)wonderful moments from food safety for 2025 * Top posts of The Rotten Apple this year * Food safety news roundup * How to deep fry a Christmas turkey * Food fraud news...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * What changed in food safety in 2025? * Emerging issues in food safety: a review * Honey madness in Europe * Trypanosoma cruzi : An emerging food pathogen * My (silly) Food Fraud Gift...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * 10 food fraud case studies * Food safety consultants - a practical guide * UPF lawsuits (a food safety professional’s perspective) 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 218 🍏 T...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Introduction to an illegal colourant: Auramine O * Tomato paste: ripe for fraud * Are PVC gloves unsafe? * Prodded, poked and punctured (Just for fun) * Food Fraud News and Recent In...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Risky tableware * Food Safety News and Resources, including infant botulism update * Pumpkin spice - a modern miracle (and food safety nightmare) * Food fraud news + the worst forger...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Food irradiation: an introduction for food professionals * Case study: Botulism from labelling error (+ a happy ending for once!) * Packaging Corner * Pastry Twister 🍏 For a transcr...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Case study of a pasta disaster * Follow-up: Poka yoke in food manufacturing * Food Safety News and Resources * Mushroom cultivation (+ building a robust calibration system) 🍏 For a...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Free food safety resources * Change management is coming to food safety * 5 Change management templates * Poll results and shocking stats for GFSI-certified sites 🍏 For a transcript...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Controversial new GFSI auditor requirements * Food fraud requirements in food safety standards * Disappearing tequila * Howling for leftovers 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Iss...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Disgusting food fraud trend: waste diversion + organised crime groups * 4 Surprising truths about food safety training * Food Safety News and Resources (including high levels of lead...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Fake Coke follow-up * Not just shrimp! More radioactive foods found in the U.S. * Food Fraud 2015 to 2035: Insights from Industry Leaders * Food fraud news from iComplai ’s AI-powere...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Counterfeit Diet Coke in London? * Horizon scanning explainer * Food safety news and resources roundup * Fake food (for real) 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 209 🍏 This i...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Highly pathogenic avian influenza in dairy foods: current status + new research * Mystery mass poisoning in the United Kingdom * Food safety news and resources * Fashion fraud (just...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Food fraud mitigations: a guide (+ templates and examples) * The flesh-eating bacterium that causes deadly foodborne illnesses * A new food defence threat: smart glasses * Quality ve...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Living dangerously with the latest food trend * Consumer-derived outbreak data - a fascinating peek * Frozen veg recalls: can we quantify the risks? * WTF is high fructose corn syrup...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this special episode, I talk with John Points the Technical Director of the Food Authenticity Network (FAN) to get an up-to-the-minute perspective on testing for food fraud. In the conversation, we discuss...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Food fraud testing in 2025 and beyond * Weird: the price of sugar * Kitchen fails (mostly fun) 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 205 🍏 Listen to the food fraud testing conv...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: · Webinar invitation: innovation in early warnings for outbreaks · The scariest food invention of the decade · Update: radioactive shrimp · Silliest shrimp memes from the past week 😁...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: · Consumer-derived outbreak data - a new tool in the toolbox · Downloadable e-book: Issues 176 to 200 · Rare: a food fraud recall · Food Safety News and Resources · Radioactive shrimp...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Follow-up: botulism root cause and manslaughter charge * “I nearly lost him”… a heartbreaking story of food safety failure * Food Safety News and Resources * What does cultivated mea...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Shocking figures for (supposedly) antibiotic-free meat * Unusual pathogen-food combo: botulinum in avocado pulp * Global food safety watch: a ‘low and slow’ outbreak from potatoes? *...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Celebrating 4 years of The Rotten Apple * Special offer * Popular post: Tropane alkaloids: plant toxins that kill * Best of ‘Just for Fun’ 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * A Comprehensive Guide to Glass Policies and Procedures (+ templates and examples) * Olive crisis update - are we out of the woods? * 233 children poisoned by cooks at a childcare cen...

The Rotten Apple is an inside view of food safety, food fraud and supply chains for professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Subscribe for weekly insights, latest news and emerging trends. In this week’s episode: * Seed oils: food safety issue or beat-up? * Gritty food fraud * STEC in flour * 5 Food Safety Quick Bites 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 198 🍏 This is a public episode. I...