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Published by Karen Constable
🍏 Food Safety 🍏 Food Fraud 🍏 Supply Chains 🍏 Fifteen minute, not-boring weekly updates by a food science nerd 🍏 therottenapple.substack.com
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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: * Supplier Approval Programs — from A to Z * Corruption in Food Supply Chains: What Does It Look Like, How Do We Prevent It? * What do ants taste like? 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 255 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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: * 3 food safety hazards no one was thinking about * Out now: The Rotten Apple e-book * The well-travelled fish finger * Food fraud news: Do we finally have a Codex definition for food fraud? 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 254 🍏 Cover image: PFAS in potato plants near a military conflict, Shy et al., 2026 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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: * “I told you so” - the wooden pallet problem * More new food safety hazards * Food Safety News and Resources * A bottomless pickle jar 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 253 🍏 Cover image: AI-generated This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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: * Four Emerging Food Safety Ris ks * Foodborne virus self-assessment * Food Safety Resources - 2 free webinars * Science meets hotdog (just for fun) 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 252 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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 * Cyclospora from the frontlines * Outsourced: Food fraud and co-manufacturers * AI and food safety 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 251 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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: * Tomato fraud bombshell * 3 Food safety quick bites * Traceability guidance * Insane chip flavour (did you say “battery”?) 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 250 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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 complete guide to EUDR for small and medium businesses * 4 ways to improve your sanitation training * A dead ant dessert 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 249 🍏 Cover image: Supply chain for palm oil. European Commission (2026) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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 was the iceberg lettuce. Oh wait… * Histamine in fish - a quick explainer * Cocoa and cocaine? * A pufferfish puffing 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 248 🍏 Cover image: High-histamine fish, Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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: * Cyclospora: a growing food safety threat * Food protection + PAS 96 webinar tomorrow * Waste diversion fraud on my radar * They did WHAT with the raw milk (Cheese maker shares a doozy) 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 247 🍏 Cover image: Cyclospora, courtesy of CDC This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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 🍏 Cover image: Timeline of a Campylobacter outbreak, Gilpin et. al. (2020) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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 dive) 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 245 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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, see Issue 244 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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 transcript and sources, see Issue 243 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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 image: Generated This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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 sources, see Issue 241 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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 sources, see Issue 240 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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 Issue 239 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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 world smarter (the history of iodine supplementation) 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 238 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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, see Issue 237 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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 (humour) 🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 236 🍏 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therottenapple.substack.com/subscribe
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