Karen Constable
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Karen Constable makes food fraud, contamination controls and supply-chain risk understandable through precise explanations, practical cases and a lightly playful delivery.
Karen Constable turns food safety into a brisk solo briefing, pairing a substantial explainer with case studies, practical guidance and a roundup of fraud incidents.
A herbal remedy's label meets a DNA test; Karen Constable gives your skepticism a proper job.
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A practical briefing on tariff pressure, fraud risks, and the food-safety issues building into 2026.
Issue 231 keeps its feet on the ground. It folds in a 2026 food-safety briefing, a tariff and food fraud discussion, a set of free webinars, a deadly listeria outbreak update, and a note on the ancient Greek chemical once used to cool wine.
A focused fraud brief that ties food safety risk to the systems behind it.
The Rotten Apple Food Safety Podcast turns this issue into a brisk look at food fraud, moving from unsafe peanuts and tariff news to a global seafood fraud report, provenance fraud in fresh dates, and glyphosate.
A dense, grounded look at herb fraud, traceability, and how small control failures can grow into bigger risks.
Herbal preparations, traceability rules, and a small maintenance failure all point to the same problem: a little lapse in control can spread through a food system fast.
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…
A practical food-safety brief that pairs consultant guidance, UPF discussion, and food fraud case studies.
Issue 218 reads like a working food-safety brief, not a polished feature. It moves from selecting and hiring a food safety consultant to ultra-processed foods, then into 10 food fraud case studies, food fraud news, a new free database, and the UK National Food Crime Unit's…
A dense but practical issue linking irradiation, label risk, and food fraud reporting.
This issue lays out food irradiation plainly: what it does, why food makers use it, and how to find a facility that can handle foods or ingredients.
Change management is treated as a practical food safety issue, with templates, standards context, and supporting news items.
Karen Constable sets change management in a food safety context, not as a paperwork exercise, and that framing gives the piece its edge. She brings in Leanne Singleton from FoodShore to ground the discussion, while the templates and step-by-step process guidance make the main…
Shawn Stevenson interviews researchers and coaches on nutrition, sleep, hormones, and fitness.
Supplement labels, decoded with conviction.
Practical health conversations for reducing overwhelm.
Karen Constable's Issue 220 reviews 2025 food-safety incidents including snake ice cream, cesium-137 shrimp recalls, and anthrax exposure among 638 people in Thailand.
Karen Constable examines Oramine O, an industrial yellow dye linked to food adulteration and detected in 27% of 211 Vietnamese food samples.
This episode explores criminological perspectives on food fraud and introduces a new series on foodborne pathogens.
A special Easter episode of a food safety podcast sharing resources and articles instead of the usual news format.
Karen discusses food fraud risks in co-manufacturing, horizon scanning, and industry news including reusable packaging and food name regulations.
Host Karen Constable provides a concise summary of a members-only webinar on emerging food safety risks for 2026, including impacts from GLP-1 drugs and AI.
This episode covers multiple food safety incidents including antibiotic-resistant salmonella linked to moringa powder, a deadly milk contamination in India that killed six people, and the tragic case of 300 child deaths from contaminated cough syrup across multiple countries.
This episode investigates how wet weather in India created aflatoxin in peanuts, leading to an elaborate smuggling operation into Indonesia via Malaysia.
Issue 226 opens on herbal preparations.
This episode debunks media claims of a 'surge' in food fraud, arguing increased reporting doesn't equal more crime.
This episode examines critical food safety issues including pesticide residue compliance in the EU, the link between food fraud and safety risks, and a potential new root cause for the cerelyte toxin in infant formula.
Karen Constable presents a comprehensive review of food fraud incidents from 2025, including shocking cases of toxic bean sprouts, street pigeons sold as duck, recycled cheese, and illegal food imports.
Host Karen Constable presents a curated roundup of major food safety and fraud developments from 2025, including regulatory upheavals in the US, a shocking case of European honey fraud, an in-depth look at the emerging foodborne pathogen Trypanosoma cruzi (causing Chagas disease), and a humorous 'food fraud gift guide' for the holidays.
This episode provides practical guidance on selecting food safety consultants, examines the legal implications of ultra-processed foods through recent lawsuits against major manufacturers, and shares the latest food fraud news including case studies and regulatory updates.
Host Karen Constable covers multiple urgent food safety topics: new research shows wheat-based biodegradable tableware can transfer dangerous levels of gluten to food, posing a hidden risk for celiacs; an infant botulism outbreak linked to formula has worsened; and the popular pumpkin spice trend harbors potential hazards like lead and pathogens in its spices.
Karen Constable opens issue 215 with food irradiation.
Karen Constable returns to the deadly listeria outbreak linked to pre-cooked pasta in ready-meals, revealing a year-long contamination timeline, systemic failures at a certified supplier, and delayed recalls.
This episode focuses on the impending requirement for formal change management processes in food safety, as mandated by GFSI standards.
Karen Constable's Issue 211 examines waste diversion, including recalled food redirected into legitimate supply chains through relabeling, repackaging, or compromised disposal contractors.
This episode covers radioactive food discovered at U.S.
This episode investigates a food poisoning disaster in South Africa with over 2,600 child poisonings, and provides updates on other food safety incidents.
This episode covers a food defence case study involving a Disney World cyberattack, seven growing food safety risks, and food fraud news including lizard meat and honey testing.
The host discusses food safety topics, highlights industry professionals, and promotes resources for food fraud research.
Karen Constable discusses shifts in food safety standards, a salmonella outbreak, and food fraud news including honey adulteration.
A food science nerd discusses food safety quick bites, PFAS in pesticides, and food fraud trends.