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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:

* 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 🍏

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 🍏

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)

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

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

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)

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 🍏

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 🍏

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 🍏

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 🍏

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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:

* 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 🍏

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 🍏

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 🍏

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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 🍏

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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 🍏

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 🍏

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 🍏

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 sources, see Issue 234 🍏

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 🍏

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 232 🍏

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

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 231 🍏

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 traceability

* Turning styrofoam into cinnamon candy (just for fun)

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 230 🍏

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 transcript and sources, see Issue 229 🍏

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

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 228 🍏

Cover image: For illustrative purposes only, AI-generated

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 Issue 227 🍏

Cover image: National Whistleblowers Center

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 problems

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 226 🍏

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 transcript and sources, see Issue 225 🍏

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 transcript and sources, see Issue 224 🍏

Cover image: Møretrø, et al (2026)

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

* Tuna tossing

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 223 🍏

Cover image: European Union Food Safety Authority

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 and sources, see Issue 222 🍏

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 Issue 221 🍏

Cover image: Pigeon carcass at a Chinese restaurant. Policia Municipal Policia, via The Sun

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

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 220 🍏

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 Guide

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 219 🍏

Cover image: A sanitary inspector holds a beaked bug (Triatoma Dimidiata) in El Carpintero, Honduras on May 17, 2005 (Credit: Elmer Martinez/AFP)

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 🍏

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 Incidents

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 217 🍏

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 forgery ever

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 216 🍏

Cover image: Testing wheat-based tableware, Sousa et. al (2025)

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 transcript and sources, see Issue 215 🍏

Cover image: Food irradiation, Mshelia et al (2022)

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 transcript and sources, see Issue 214 🍏

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 and sources, see Issue 213 🍏

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 Issue 212 🍏

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 in two-thirds of protein supplements)

* Best beef lesson ever

* Food fraud news: horsemeat and beef (the tables turn)

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 211 🍏

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-powered food safety and food fraud intelligence platform

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 210 🍏

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 🍏

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 for fun)

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 208 🍏

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 versus production (just for fun)

* Food fraud: counterfeiting incident with chocolate

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 207 🍏

Cover image: Fabrikasimf on Freepik

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

* Food fraud news: berry scandal in Australia

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 206 🍏

Listen to the consumer data webinar here.

Cover image: DineSafe

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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:

* What are the options for authenticity testing for a medium-sized food business in 2025;

* How to find methods, laboratories and resources, and

* How testing fits into a best-practice food fraud mitigation plan.

🍏 Click here 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:

* 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 conversation here.

Cover image: DC Studio on Freepik

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 😁

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 204 🍏

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 unpacked

· Food fraud news: undercover honey investigation + methanol in paprika explained

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 203 🍏