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Contents
Special Supplements
Live Event Recordings
Index of Articles
Food Fraud Incident Reports
Past Issues e-Books
Price Freeze
Audio Archive
Special Offers and More Information
Questions and Feedback
Special Supplements
Our special supplements for paying subscribers go deeper into a single topic than our newsletters. They are designed to have practical, actionable information for food professionals.
🍏 A Guide to Colour Coding in Food Businesses
🍏Emerging Food Safety Risks (2025 update)
🍏Food Safety Culture: Fresh Tips and Ideas
🍏Global Learnings from the Food Crime Strategic Assessment Report 2024
🍏A guide to Listeria controls and environmental monitoring programs
🍏 Crisis Management Plans for Food Businesses (+ Downloadable Checklist)
🍏 How Product Recall Insurance Works for Food Fraud Events
🍏 Team Training Exercise: What's Wrong With This Picture
🍏 Introduction to Hygienic Design (Plus the only sanitary design checklist you will ever need)
🍏 Listeria 101: Characteristics, Controls, Latest Research and Guidance
🍏 The Food Crime Risk Profiling Tool of SFCIU
🍏 Is Training Needed? - Ultimate Decision Tool (with downloadable poster)
🍏 How to Assess for Food Fraud in Packaging Materials
🍏 How to Make an Internal Audit Checklist
🍏 Seaweed Food Safety Tool Box
🍏 How to Address Document Fraud in Food Fraud Vulnerability Assessments
🍏 How to Decide What to Do Next in Your Career + Worksheet
🍏 The Five Whys for Root Cause Analysis + Template
🍏 Metal Detectors and X-Ray Systems Knowledge Base
🍏 Food Fraud Information Sources Compared - Databases, Newsletters, Government Portals
🍏 The Food Safety Aspects of Sous Vide
Live Event Recordings
Our live training sessions are open to everyone but recordings are only for paying subscribers.
Past Training Sessions
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Index of Articles
Want to know more about Salmonella in chocolate? Or the very latest food fraud emerging issues? Don’t trawl through your inbox, just search our categorised list of articles, on webpages accessible only to paying subscribers (click the preview box below to check it out).
Food Fraud Incident Reports
Paying subscribers get food fraud incident reports straight to their inboxes each week, at the end of each issue. We also list the same incidents on a private web page so they are accessible all in one place whenever you need them, exclusively for paying subscribers and with sources included.
Food Fraud Incidents (Searchable List), Part 1 - Sep 2022 - Dec 2024
This is a list of food fraud incidents that can be searched. It contains copies of the incidents that appeared at the end of each issue of The Rotten Apple between Sep 2022 and Dec 2024, collated into a list for your convenience.
Food Fraud Incidents (Searchable List), Part 2 - from Jan 2025
This is a list of food fraud incidents that can be searched. It contains copies of the incidents that appear at the end of each issue of The Rotten Apple, collated into a list for your convenience.
Past Issues e-Books
Catch up on your favourite topics the old-fashioned way, by downloading and printing past issues to read offline. We publish a compilation of past issues twice per year, as an e-book, with hundreds of pages of fascinating and helpful food safety and food fraud information. Only for paying subscribers.
Past Issue Compilations
Twice a year I publish a compilation of past issues, in a downloadable pdf format, for paying subscribers. Download and save the compilations to read offline, or print (if you’re the old-fashioned type!). Bonus: they’re searchable and link-click-able.
Price Freeze
Did you know?! If our prices go up, existing subscribers’ fees do not increase. That’s right, if you are a paying subscriber, your monthly or annual fees are immune from price rises.
If we increase subscription fees the new price only applies to new subscribers, your rate won’t change.
Audio Archive
Audio versions of Issues 30 to 122 are available exclusively to paying subscribers from our Audio Archive page.
Audio Archive
Listen to me, Karen Constable, read out past issues of The Rotten Apple. This audio archive is for paying subscribers. You can listen directly from your browser, or from the Substack app. Love it? Click the heart button. 🍏🍏🍏
Special Offers and More Information
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