Why I Created The Rotten Apple

And how to join our global food safety community

Hi, nice to ‘meet’ you!

Welcome to The Rotten Apple, an independent publication for food industry professionals. It’s packed with unique insights, original reporting and timely briefings on food safety and food fraud.

Karen Constable - founder, ex-food manufacturing, 15+ years in food safety

My goal with The Rotten Apple is to keep you up to date and help you do better at your job with weekly updates and high-quality resources, so you don’t have to sift through the mountain of information that comes across your desk each day.  

I’m a leading food fraud expert, founder of foodfraudadvisors.com and creator of the massive (and massively popular) Food Fraud Risk Information Database on Trello.

Every week I collect, curate, evaluate, summarise, collate and deconstruct hundreds of articles, posts, notifications, guidance docs and research papers, and select the most pertinent, timely and interesting for readers of The Rotten Apple…. sifting out all the fluff, filler and advertorials so you don’t have to.

My aim: to produce a publication that’s insightful, respectful of your time and free from the constraints of advertisers or big donors.

Become a subscriber (free or premium)

All subscribers get one email per week with 3-4 articles to level up your knowledge, do better at your job and become a thought leader in your field.

Free subscribers get food safety news and commentary. Premium subscribers also get instant access to over 34 rigorously researched guidance documents, topic explainers, and training sessions, along with weekly food fraud news, incident reports, and warnings of emerging issues. They also receive a complete library of past articles organised by topic, plus seven downloadable e-books. Learn more about paid subscriptions here.

If you’ve already signed up, great! Welcome to our global food safety community, if you haven’t done that yet, do it now and get smarter about food safety in just a few minutes each week.