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 🍏 * Emerging Food Safety Risks (2025 update); * How to reduce your food waste; * Mr Bean at the restaurant (just for fun); 🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 172 🍏 This is a public...

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 🍏 * Follow-up: Outcomes from the E. coli in slivered onions outbreak; * The food fraud that wasn’t - a fruit juice story; * Food Safety News and Resources; * How to eat string cheese snack...

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 🍏 * Sequelae: The Mysterious Long-term Outcomes of Foodborne Illness; * What’s next for The Rotten Apple ; * Food Safety News and Resources; * Spotify for food safety nerds; * Food fraud n...

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 🍏 * Special offer: upgrade for one year and get a second year free, saving $100 ( Get the special offer here ) * What changed in food safety in 2024? * Food Safety News and Resources; * 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 🍏 * Tomato fraud by big name retailers? - a BBC investigation leaves more questions than answers; * Throwback: Bananas in Peril; * That’s interesting: sugar taxes actually work? 🍏 For a 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 🍏 * The Great Tuna Scam (and what was going on with my salad in New York?); * Packaging corner: drinking straws and hazards in plastic alternatives; * Peek inside a mustard mill. 🍏 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 episode 🍏 * How Salmonella works; * Anatomy of a food crime; * Revenge of the turkeys (just for fun). 🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 166 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to di...

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 defence case study: cyberattack threatens allergic consumers * 7 Food safety risks for 2025 and beyond * How crackers are made (just for fun) 🍏 For a transcript and sources see 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 episode 🍏 * Verification for food fraud prevention systems * What does a food fraud team look like (and what to do if you can't get one) * Are underweight ingredients a food fraud issue? 🍏 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 episode 🍏 * How to ace your next food safety audit; * Food safety champion makes melons great again; * Insight: Loud and jumbled food innovations. 🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 163 🍏...

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 🍏 * What’s new in food safety culture systems; * Haphazard analysis - we can do better * Food crime or fun recipe, you decide (just for fun) ; 🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 162...

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 🍏 * Winner of the Food Safety Escape Room competition; * The lost art of auditing outcomes; * Salmonella outbreak unpacked; * Worst fast food launches (just for fun). 🍏 For a transcript 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 episode 🍏 * Special edition for World Food Day; * Competition: Food Safety Escape Room. 🍏 To view the original post, see Issue 160 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with...

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 🍏 * Spotlight on Shigella ; * Superweeds (super bad); * Food Safety News and Resources; * Why people knowingly buy fakes; * Food fraud news, emerging risks and recent incidents. 🍏 For a 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 🍏 * Boar’s Head Criminal Investigation? * How millions of tonnes of organic produce were affected by years of fraud in the fertiliser industry; * AI Mushroom Guidebooks (what could possibl...

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 🍏 * Four quick bites: Reader response to intrinsic versus extrinsic hazards | Boar’s Head Sanitation Manager spills the dirt | Wurst pun | PFAS in pesticides | * Emerging trends in food fr...

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 🍏 * Global insights from the UK Food Crime Report; * E. coli in leafy greens - a root cause analysis; * Food Safety News and Resources; * Dodgy doctor’s diet advice almost kills baby (not...

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 🍏 * Reader insight: Intrinsic versus extrinsic hazards; * Emerging trends in food safety (2024); * Yersinia mystery solved - a case study; * Out now: The Rotten Apple e-book, Issues 126 to...

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 trend: Freezer temperatures to increase? * Sanitation failures and death toll increases in Listeria deli-meat outbreak; * Food Safety News and Resources; * Space beer = goo...

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 Guide to Listeria Controls and Environmental Monitoring Programs; * Bird flu in cows: “This could go pandemic”; * 3 Weird food fraud moments from the past year; * A history of the Ge...

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 🍏 * Three things I’ve learned in 3 years with The Rotten Apple; * What it feels like to be injured by food ; * WGS: the game-changing tech for solving mystery outbreaks; * Learn about food...

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 the Aussie food science conference; * Olympic Sport and Contaminated Food; * Lead in Cinnamon, an overview; * The Best Normal Dish For Getting Screwdrivers Out Of Your 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 🍏 * Save the date: Meet-up on Thursday 15th August; * Herbs and botanicals food fraud overview; * What it’s like to have an E. coli gastric infection; * Take Three for the Sea; 🍏 For a tr...

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 🍏 * Call for data on lead in spices and tropane alkaloids in foods; * The Curious Case of the French Mineral Water Scandal; * What are carbon-negative foods?; * Food Safety News and Resour...

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 fraud 2024 - what the experts say; * Cyclospora , a growing food safety threat (or not?); * Highly pathogenic avian influenza in dairy foods; * Did you know… (facts and quotes fro...