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

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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:

* “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

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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:

* Four Emerging Food Safety Risks

* Foodborne virus self-assessment

* Food Safety Resources - 2 free webinars

* Science meets hotdog (just for fun)

🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 252 🍏

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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 🍏

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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:

* 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 🍏

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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:

* 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)

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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:

* 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

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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:

* 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

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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:

* 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)

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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:

* 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 🍏

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