We love writing about the unexpected! Here are some of our weirdest and best posts of 2022. Paying subscribers get access to a complete collection, indexed by topic.
Top Posts
🍏 Holey Moley, did this baby formula company just outsource a critical safety process? (Cronobacter and Nutricia)
🍏 Milk Fraud Done Differently (Italian Milk Tanker Fraud)
🍏 The “Safe”, “Green” Pesticide That Might Be Causing Foodborne Illness
🍏 5 weird food safety moments from 2022 - AIDs drugs in pork, construction chemicals for breakfast, mandrakes and brain viruses…
🍏 Horse meat fraud again – you’re kidding, right?
🍏 (Not Really) a Food Crime: Coriander (Cilantro) Icecream Sundaes
🍏 An Insider Reveals Deception in Blueberry Bagels
🍏 Salmonella in Chocolate - How Does This Happen? (in the context of the Easter Ferrero recall)
🍏 A Listeria “cold case” solved with new technology (NGS)
🍏 Light-emitting pickles: how to turn a pickle into a LED (just for fun)
Get Smarter: A Selection of Readers’ Favourite Knowledge-Boosting Posts
Biases and Noise in Food Safety Investigations and Audits (Part 1)
Noise in Food Safety Audit Data (Part 2)
What - exactly - is Precision Fermentation?
What (Exactly) Is LCA Life Cycle Assessment?
How (Exactly) Does Food Printing Work?
Burkholderia cocovenenans – a food pathogen you might not have heard of