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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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 🍏

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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: 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 🍏

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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’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 🍏

Cover image: 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:

* 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 🍏

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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:

* 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 🍏

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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:

* 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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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:

* 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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