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 Food Fraud Trends (2024);

* Follow up: Honey rules;

* Animal Feed Safety Webinar 13th, 14th March;

* Future food policy in Europe.

🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 178 🍏

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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 🍏

* Honey fraud fight (including insights from the trenches);

* Save the date: Feed Safety Webinar 13th, 14th March;

* A guide to colour coding for food businesses;

* Did the USDA really accidentally fire its bird flu experts?

🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 177 🍏

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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 🍏

* Crisis management in the food industry;

* Rice fraud - more common than you might imagine think;

* Follow-up: South Africa poisonings;

* Spicy food eaten fast (just for fun).

🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 176 🍏

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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 🍏

* Legume poisoning;

* Best back catalogue ever: Announcing our new and improved index;

* What I’m reading (misinformation, authenticity and smoked meat);

* I poisoned my family.

🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 175 🍏

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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 🍏

* What is a food safety risk assessment (really?);

* Outbreak root cause: Staph toxin in salad;

* Follow up: Food Waste Reduction.

🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 174 🍏

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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 🍏

* Mystery Food Poisonings Stalk Citizens;

* Bongkrekic acid outbreak insights;

* 14 rules for bad quality managers.

🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 173 🍏

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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 🍏

* Emerging Food Safety Risks (2025 update);

* How to reduce your food waste;

* Mr Bean at the restaurant (just for fun);

🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 172 🍏

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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 🍏

* Follow-up: Outcomes from the E. coli in slivered onions outbreak;

* The food fraud that wasn’t - a fruit juice story;

* Food Safety News and Resources;

* How to eat string cheese snacks.

🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 171 🍏

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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 🍏

* Sequelae: The Mysterious Long-term Outcomes of Foodborne Illness;

* What’s next for The Rotten Apple;

* Food Safety News and Resources;

* Spotify for food safety nerds;

* Food fraud news, emerging issues and recent incidents.

🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 170 🍏

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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 🍏

* Special offer: upgrade for one year and get a second year free, saving $100 (Get the special offer here)

* What changed in food safety in 2024?

* Food Safety News and Resources;

* What I learned: the worst and weirdest of the year;

🍏 For a transcript and sources see Issue 169 🍏

Cover image: K. Hall (2024) ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05290064, via Food Politics

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