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 episode 🍏

* Spotlight on Shigella;

* Superweeds (super bad);

* Food Safety News and Resources;

* Why people knowingly buy fakes;

* Food fraud news, emerging risks and recent incidents.

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 159 🍏

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 episode 🍏

* Boar’s Head Criminal Investigation?

* How millions of tonnes of organic produce were affected by years of fraud in the fertiliser industry;

* AI Mushroom Guidebooks (what could possibly go wrong?);

* What I’m reading;

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 158 🍏

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 episode 🍏

* Four quick bites: Reader response to intrinsic versus extrinsic hazards | Boar’s Head Sanitation Manager spills the dirt | Wurst pun | PFAS in pesticides |

* Emerging trends in food fraud (2024);

* Food Safety News and Resources;

* How rainbow sprinkles are made (just for fun).

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 157 🍏

Cover image: Tokyo fish markets in 2015 (by author)

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 episode 🍏

* Global insights from the UK Food Crime Report;

* E. coli in leafy greens - a root cause analysis;

* Food Safety News and Resources;

* Dodgy doctor’s diet advice almost kills baby (not for fun!).

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 156 🍏

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 episode 🍏

* Reader insight: Intrinsic versus extrinsic hazards;

* Emerging trends in food safety (2024);

* Yersinia mystery solved - a case study;

* Out now: The Rotten Apple e-book, Issues 126 to 150;

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 155 🍏

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 episode 🍏

* Food safety trend: Freezer temperatures to increase?

* Sanitation failures and death toll increases in Listeria deli-meat outbreak;

* Food Safety News and Resources;

* Space beer = good beer.

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 154 🍏

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 episode 🍏

* A Guide to Listeria Controls and Environmental Monitoring Programs;

* Bird flu in cows: “This could go pandemic”;

* 3 Weird food fraud moments from the past year;

* A history of the German cockroach (just for fun).

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 153 🍏

Cover image: AI imagines cockroaches

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 episode 🍏

* Three things I’ve learned in 3 years with The Rotten Apple;

* What it feels like to be injured by food ;

* WGS: the game-changing tech for solving mystery outbreaks;

* Learn about food smuggling;

* Food fraud news, emerging issues and recent incidents.

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 152 🍏

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 episode 🍏

* Postcard from the Aussie food science conference;

* Olympic Sport and Contaminated Food;

* Lead in Cinnamon, an overview;

* The Best Normal Dish For Getting Screwdrivers Out Of Your Food (AI recipes).

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 151 🍏

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 episode 🍏

* Save the date: Meet-up on Thursday 15th August;

* Herbs and botanicals food fraud overview;

* What it’s like to have an E. coli gastric infection;

* Take Three for the Sea;

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 150 🍏

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