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: * The Pathogen Files: Campylobacter * What’s new in the Knowledge Vault * 2 Unusual food safety incidents * Crimes against cheese 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 246 🍏 Cove...

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: * Insights from the frontline of food fraud (Part II) * Top 5 NCs to watch out for in 2027 * 3 quick food safety bites, plus the last word on pink pineapples * Food fraud report (deep...

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’s frontier: unexpected insights from the Authentic Food Conference * What’s new in SQF 10 * 3 food safety bites * Pink pineapples, part II 🍏 For a transcript and sources,...

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: high-energy diversions and millions of counterfeit products land criminals in jail * PAS 96:2026 unpacked for you * Food safety news * Illegal pineapples 🍏 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: * It’s World Food Safety Day (yesterday) * Webinar archive unlocked * Food Safety News Roundup * What does fraud taste like? 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 242 🍏 Cover ima...

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: * Lab confidentiality - a thorny issue * Highlights from the food fraud conference * The science of airline food * Potato Salad Competition: answers and winners 🍏 For a transcript and...

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: * Deadly potato toxins - what you need to know * Competition: Safe or Sorry? Potato Salad Challenge * Food fraud in potatoes * 3 fun food facts from Iceland 🍏 For a transcript and sou...

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: * Laboratory verification challenges * Foods of Iceland * Food Safety News and Resources * The child slave who changed vanilla cultivation forever 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see...

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: * Red flags in suppliers: how to spot them + what to do about them * Is a 5-log reduction actually correct? * We drank milk before we could digest it * The easiest way to make the worl...

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: * Everything you need to know about rotavirus * Spice Fraud - An Introduction * FSSC 22000 V7 is here * Craft beers: sometimes good, sometimes ?hairy? 🍏 For a transcript and sources,...

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 webinar (with me) on Friday * Peanut butter’s surprising pathogens * Mycotoxins in peanuts * Weird peanut butters from around the globe * How peanut butter is (actually) made (h...

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: * Maple syrup fraud in Canada (gulp!) * What is immature honey? * Food on Artemis II * US honey results: good (or are they?) 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 235 🍏 This is 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: * 6 Food Fraud Criminology Studies Unpacked (with actionable takeaways for food professionals) * Bacillus cereus 101 * The curious case of the Ant Powder God 🍏 For a transcript and 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 week’s episode: * Work-free zone * Nerding out on techy chocolate * Your supplements are a lie * Resources you may have missed 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 233 🍏 This is a public episod...

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: * New horizon scan archive * Packaging corner: recycled PP containers * What’s in a (food) name? * Fred designs a potato chip (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: * Food safety: what’s in store for 2026? * Tariffs and food fraud risk: what you need to know * Food Safety News and Resources * No snow? No problem! How to cool your food in 1601 🍏 F...

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: * Hidden traps in food testing: lessons from a protein bar lawsuit * 18 Food defence blind spots + a self-assessment checklist * TraceMap, a new tool for fraud detection and traceabili...

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: * The Middle East conflict, a 10,000 feet view for food professionals * What to watch out for in the coming months * Food Safety News and Resources * Making honey cough drops 🍏 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: * Mass balance for food safety systems * When food fraud turns deadly: milk adulteration kills 6 people * Food safety news and resources roundup * How natural food colours are made 🍏...

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 safety risks from food fraud (and vice versa) * The Rotten Apple e-Book * Glyphosate update * Venemous lionfish ceviche (it’s a thing?!) 🍏 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: * Shocking rates of fraud in herbal products * Data exchange in traceability: what you need to know * Food safety news and resources * Case study: Tiny maintenance failure causes huge...

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 talks * Cheese time: Parmesan in the spotlight * Top 5 Non-conformances from BRCGS * Avocado’s number * Food fraud news with crispy snails and no-milk milk 🍏 For a transc...

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: * Real-world lessons in Listeria eradication (case study) * Webinar tomorrow: Food fraud trends and predictions for 2026 * Food fraud is surging worldwide. Or is it? 🍏 For a transcrip...

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: * Save the date: food fraud webinar next week * Food fraud and food safety: latest research * Pesticide MRLs: the quiet illusion of food safety * Cereulide root cause - new insights *...

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: * An insider’s view: How does cereulide get into infant formula? * Which GFSI certification scheme is best for your business? * Good news re auditor requirements 🍏 For a transcript an...