🎄🍫 Holiday Treats with a Twist: What's in Your Chocolate? 🍫🎄 The holiday season is all about indulgence, and chocolate is a favorite for many of us. But have you ever wondered how heavy metals like lead and cadmium might end up in your favorite treat? 🤔 From natural soil presence to manufacturing processes, the journey of chocolate is more complex than it seems. This season, let’s savor our sweets while staying informed about their origins and safety. What’s your go-to holiday chocolate? Share below! 🍬✨
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A weekly newsletter for food professionals, policy-makers and purveyors.
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The Rotten Apple is a weekly newsletter for food professionals, policy-makers and purveyors. Stay on top of food integrity news in just five minutes per week. Get laser-focused, expertly curated food integrity updates straight to your inbox every Monday. Expect news on emerging trends in food safety, food fraud enforcement initiatives, best practices in adulteration prevention and the latest in supply chain sustainability. Plus food fraud incidents from the past week and food fraud horizon scanning. Founder Karen Constable says "As one of the world’s leading food authenticity specialists, founder of foodfraudadvisors.com and creator of the massive (and massively popular) Food Fraud Risk Information Database on Trello, it’s my job to stay informed about everything that’s happening in the food integrity space. That means reading hundreds of articles, posts, notifications and research papers every week. "With The Rotten Apple, I take the most pertinent, timely and interesting items from the week and craft them into a single, punchy email…. sifting out all the fluff, filler and advertorials so you don’t have to." Expect news on emerging trends in food safety, food fraud enforcement initiatives, best practices in adulteration prevention and the latest in supply chain sustainability. Plus food fraud incidents from the past week and food fraud horizon scanning. The Rotten Apple contains no endorsements, no promos, no ads. Ever.
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There have been some unexpected shifts and events in #foodsafety this year. Read about them in this week's issue (the last for 2024).
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BBC's report into Chinese tomatoes in Italian tomato purees hints at some intriguing investigations but ultimately raises more questions than it answers. Get expert insights in this week's issue.
168 | What's Going on With Italian-Chinese Tomato Puree? | GM to the Rescue |
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In this week's newsletter: an overview of #seafood #fraud, plus a recently-revealed tuna adulteration trend, hazards in paper- and plant-based packaging and a peek inside a mustard mill. Enjoy!
167 | The Great Tuna Scam | Chemical Hazards in Paper Drinking Straws | Rescinded Recall (?) |
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Our most watched video of the year is about #foodfraud in #oliveoil. Publishing again in case you missed it.
🌿 The Olive Oil Crisis
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Love a podcast? We do! Ours is short and sweet. You can listen on Apple podcasts and Spotify (search for The Rotten Apple Food Safety). Each episode has 2 short pieces about #foodsafety, #foodfraud or sustainable supply chains. New episodes drop every Monday. Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gXaUmRwr Apple podcasts: https://lnkd.in/g545vDy3
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What is it about Salmonella that makes it such an effective foodborne pathogen? Find out in this week's issue. Plus wine fraud and homicidal turkeys. https://lnkd.in/gUfCq9Vj
166 | Salmonella Deep Dive | Anatomy of a Wine Theft |
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Crackers! In this week's issue, Karen asks whether a recent cyberattack means we should rethink our #fooddefense definitions, and 7 food safety risks for 2025 and beyond. https://lnkd.in/gu3vwdhb
165 | 7 Food Safety Risks for 2025 | Food Defence Case Study | Crackers |
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This week's issue is #foodfraud central, with food fraud verification, food fraud teams and a question about underweight ingredients. https://lnkd.in/gthsy7F6
164 | Food Fraud Special |
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