The Rotten Apple Food Safety Podcast · Karen Constable
Issue 224 (Audio Version)
February 2, 2026·18 min·1 clip
Researchers discovered that surface swabbing failed to detect listeria hiding inside conveyor belt fibers, which only grew out when soaked in a broth.
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A practical food safety briefing that favors operational detail over surface-level alarm.
The Rotten Apple frames this as a focused food-safety roundup, moving from a detailed listeria case study at a ready-to-eat manufacturer to a contamination story linked with severe infant illnesses in the US, then widening out to the question of whether food fraud is truly…
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