The Rotten Apple Food Safety Podcast

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) 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 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 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 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 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 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) 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 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 🍏 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 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 🍏 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 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 🍏 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 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 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 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 🍏 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 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 🍏 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 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 🍏 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 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 🍏 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 week’s episode: * Everything you need to know about rotavirus* Spice Fraud - An Introduction* FSSC 22000 V7 is here* Craft beers: sometimes good, sometimes ?hairy?🍏 For a transcript and sources, see Issue 237 🍏 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