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)

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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:

* 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)

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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:

* 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 🍏

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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

* 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 🍏

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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:

* 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 🍏

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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:

* 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 🍏

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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:

* 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 🍏

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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:

* 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 🍏

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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:

* 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 🍏

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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:

* 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

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