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 🍏

* Call for data on lead in spices and tropane alkaloids in foods;

* The Curious Case of the French Mineral Water Scandal;

* What are carbon-negative foods?;

* Food Safety News and Resources;

* Chocolate mayonnaise.

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 149 🍏

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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 episode 🍏

* Food fraud 2024 - what the experts say;

* Cyclospora, a growing food safety threat (or not?);

* Highly pathogenic avian influenza in dairy foods;

* Did you know… (facts and quotes from IAFP).

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 148 🍏

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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 episode 🍏

·        Microorganisms on disposable gloves, a new food safety hazard?;

·        Packaging corner: hazardous chemicals found in plant-based packaging;

·        Anatomy of an alcohol fraud;

·        How to make a pickle sandwich.

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 147 🍏

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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 episode 🍏

* Meetup (in person!) at IAFP next week;

* Crisis Management Resources;

* Everything you need to know about hepatitis E;

* Food Safety News and Resources;

* How to fake a mushroom.

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 146 🍏

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 🍏

* (US) FDA’s comments regarding an ineffective recall of dangerous children’s food (what the?!);

* Auditor perspective: Key non-conformances in food safety culture implementation (and how to prevent them);

* Food Fraud Quick Bite: Frothy Milk;

* How Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are Made (just for fun);

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 145 🍏

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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 episode 🍏

* Postcard from America;

* Housekeeping: managing your subscription, special lifetime offer;

* Learn About Seafood Fraud;

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 144 🍏

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 🍏

* Microplastics in seafood - where do they come from, what do they look like?;

* Fallout from an allergen mistake;

* Quality Managers and the Art of Influence;

* Dietary advice from the 1950s (just for fun).

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 143 🍏

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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 episode 🍏

* Food Safety Scorecard;

* Food Fraud in a Global Context;

* Food Safety News and Resources;

* When Oysters Were a Poor Man’s Food (just for fun);

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 142 🍏

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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 episode 🍏

* Join us at our June meet-up on Thursday/Friday this week;

* What food safety means to you (competition winners);

* Unexpected Food Safety Incidents: 3 Case Studies;

* Packaging Corner: Updates to the BRC Packaging Standard;

* The BEST (funny) food safety video for your team;

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 141 🍏

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 🍏

* Competition: win a mug for Food Safety Day;

* Food fraud disasters, will insurance save your food business?;

* New words to know in 2024;

* Expect the unexpected for Food Safety Day;

🍏 For a transcript and links to all sources, see Issue 140 🍏

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