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 episode 🍏 ·        Microorganisms on disposable gloves, a new food safety hazard?; ·        Packaging corner: hazardous chemicals found in plant-based packaging; ·        Anatomy of an alcohol fra...

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 episode 🍏 * Meetup (in person!) at IAFP next week; * Crisis Management Resources; * Everything you need to know about hepatitis E; * Food Safety News and Resources; * How to fake a mushroom. 🍏 Fo...

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 episode 🍏 * (US) FDA’s comments regarding an ineffective recall of dangerous children’s food (what the?!); * Auditor perspective: Key non-conformances in food safety culture implementation (and ho...

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 episode 🍏 * Postcard from America; * Housekeeping: managing your subscription, special lifetime offer; * Learn About Seafood Fraud; 🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 144 🍏 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 episode 🍏 * Microplastics in seafood - where do they come from, what do they look like?; * Fallout from an allergen mistake; * Quality Managers and the Art of Influence; * Dietary advice from the...

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 episode 🍏 * Food Safety Scorecard; * Food Fraud in a Global Context; * Food Safety News and Resources; * When Oysters Were a Poor Man’s Food (just for fun); 🍏 For a transcript and links to all so...

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 episode 🍏 * Join us at our June meet-up on Thursday/Friday this week; * What food safety means to you (competition winners); * Unexpected Food Safety Incidents: 3 Case Studies; * Packaging Corner:...

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 episode 🍏 * Competition: win a mug for Food Safety Day; * Food fraud disasters, will insurance save your food business?; * New words to know in 2024; * Expect the unexpected for Food Safety Day;...

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 episode 🍏 * Mistake proofing in food systems; * Tara flour declared ‘unapproved’, but not ‘unsafe’ by the US FDA 🤔; * Why one man put lettuce down his pants; * A very brief history of gravlax; *...

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 episode 🍏 * Erratum (Paprika fraud); * The world’s most dangerous cheese; * Palm oil, cocoa, coffee and soy supply shakeup; * Truly Disturbing Foods (just for fun). 🍏 For a transcript and links 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 episode 🍏 * Case study: Paprika adulterated with carcinogenic dye; * Plastic safety news: nanoplastics in bottled water, disease costs from plastic and BPA in spandex clothes; * Egg and sandwich p...

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 episode 🍏 * Save time by listening, now on your favourite podcast app; * E. coli in leafy greens, new knowledge; * Salmonella in salmon; * On fire extinguishers and cookies, fries and breast impla...

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 episode 🍏 * Crustacean-related food safety risks in new foods; * Food defence 101; * Top 5 food safety non-conformances; * Crabs, Crabs, Crabs. 🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Is...

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 episode 🍏 * A Rare, Deadly Food-borne Illness Strikes Diners; * Learnings from the UK meat scandal (one year on); * Tropane alkaloid poisoning from leafy greens - new insights; * Job Done! WHO/FAO...

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 episode 🍏 * ATP testing in food safety - an introduction; * Top 10 root causes of allergen-related recalls; * Food Safety News and Resources; * Mac n Cheese Ice Cream (Just for fun). 🍏 For a tran...

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 episode 🍏 * Is ChatGPT getting dumber?; * Snails and sloths - food labelling changes by the USDA; * Fools Foods for 1st April; * Two long reads for your holiday pleasure. 🍏 For a transcript and l...

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 episode 🍏 * Case study: How massive quantities of soybeans and corn turned “organic” in the blink of an eye; * Banana extinction - a new hope; * Are egg shells weaker than before?; * The raw chick...

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 episode 🍏 * Food safety training exercise, What’s Wrong with This Picture? ; * Packaging Corner: PFAS phase out, red colours on packs, wanna buy a Russian oligarch’s factory? * FSSC version 6 - wh...

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 episode 🍏 * Case Study: Contaminated food + handwashing failures cause brain infection; * Chocolate supply chains in crisis; * That’s Interesting: Race and Allergies; * A bacon pun (just for fun);...

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 episode 🍏 * Save the date: Meet-up on Thursday 14th March; * Stay Ahead of the Curve: A Road Map for Implementing New Audit Standards; * Insect-based Foods and Food Fraud; * Photo competition winn...

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 episode 🍏 * Listeria risks and controls: new insights; * Packaging corner: PFAS testing and plastic reuse risks; * Food safety snapshot: labelling errors and chemical contamination; * What’s wrong...

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 episode 🍏 * Is Alzheimer’s a foodborne illness?; * Corruption in food supply chains; * Who ya Gonna Call (just for fun); 🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 126 🍏 This is a pu...

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 episode 🍏 * Recalls: 2023 by the numbers; * Chlorate and perchlorates in food; * 5 food crime mini case studies: floor salmon, disappearing poultry meat and more; * February meetup report. 🍏 For...

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 episode 🍏 * The Victim and the Food Safety Team, Daily Harvest Mystery Poisonings > 1 year on; * A Bird’s Eye View of Global Food Fraud; * Food Safety News and Resources; * How Bubblegum is (Reall...

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