What is The Rotten Apple?
The Rotten Apple is your answer to inbox overload.
The Rotten Apple is a once-per-week newsletter on 🍏 food safety 🍏 food fraud 🍏 sustainable supply chains 🍏 for food professionals, policy-makers and purveyors.
Hi, I’m Karen!
I do the hard work for you. Every week I scan hundreds of news articles, blog posts, forums, newsletters and social feeds for relevant food and ag news. The Rotten Apple is where I share a carefully curated collection of the most interesting, useful and actionable insights from the week.
You get short, sharp reads, with links to more information on each item if you want to go deeper, plus the occasional deep dive to stimulate your knowledge centres.
"Your newsletter is insightful, well researched and I like the humorous touch. What pushed me over the edge from unpaid to paid was your article on biofilms, which was a fantastic compilation of the state of knowledge. Thank you" Stephen, PPB Technology
Why subscribe?
Subscribe to:
Cut through the noise, clear your inbox of clutter and feel confident you won’t miss out on anything important
Stay ahead of emerging issues in food safety and food fraud: new hazards, new trends, updates to standards, without having to filter through pages of fluff and filler
Get insider info you won’t find in mainstream industry media: case reports, personal stories, insights from the front line
See the global picture, not just North America or the United Kingdom.
Expand your knowledge, discover new ideas for training, be part of the community.
You won’t find:
x Press releases from food companies about their latest ‘initiatives’ or products.
x Advertorials about equipment, systems or services for food production.
x Self-promotion for my consulting business. While I do offer food fraud products, training and consultancy services, I don’t promote them in this newsletter.
Top Posts
🌿 As Safe as Table Salt (Not) How Monsanto convinced the world that glyphosate was safe
🍦 Epic Fails at the Icecream Factory Big Olaf ice cream had Listeria in their product for months, were operating without an operational food safety plan and initially refused to stop selling the icecream after it was linked to Listeria illnesses.
🥛 Milk Fraud Done Differently Secret compartments, a sharp-eyed quality manager and hush-hush responses by company executives
🦐 Allergen Management: An Awesome Free Tool A fabulous interactive tool for food allergen management processes in manufacturing facilities.
Free and Paid Subscriptions
Free subscribers get interesting, easy-to-read articles (food safety, food fraud, food supply chains) straight to your inbox every Monday.
Paying subscribers get access to additional, exclusive content:
✅ exclusive monthly supplements (for example, The Five Whys for Root Cause Analysis + Template);
✅ recordings of live training events;
✅ weekly food fraud incident reports and horizon scanning for food fraud;
✅ an index of past topics and articles; and
✅ e-books of past issues… download, print, enjoy offline.
See an example of a paid newsletter here
Paid subscribers support my efforts to bring you the most interesting new food safety and food fraud news from around the globe every week. Monthly and annual subscriptions are available, with no lock-in contract.
Payments are tax-deductible* and expense-account-friendly. Business-ready invoices and receipts are provided. Group discounts are available (2+ people).
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