As of September 30, 2026, FDA’s outbreak table carries a new Listeria monocytogenes investigation, reference #1415, with 11 people sick. The food has not been identified, no states, hospitalizations or deaths have been disclosed, no company has been named and no recall has been issued. FDA says it has started a traceback. CDC has posted
Two sprout outbreaks are open at the same time. Alfalfa sprouts from Everything Sprouts have sickened 55 people in 15 states, four of them hospitalized, with three strains of E. coli and a Salmonella in one product, and broccoli sprouts from Evergreen Fresh Sprouts have sickened 32 in six states, three hospitalized. That is 87
Four raw milk cheese outbreaks in thirty-one months — Raw Farm in February 2024, Twin Sisters Creamery in October 2025, Raw Farm again in March 2026 and now Sierra Nevada Cheese Company’s Graziers — have sickened 43 people, hospitalized 17 and put six children into kidney failure, and every one of those cheeses was aged
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and health officials in several states are investigating a multistate hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to imported frozen clams: La Serranita-brand concha negra (black shell) shell meat from Ecuador, sold in 16-ounce packages and typically eaten raw or marinated in ceviche. As
The CDC and FDA announced on September 25, 2026, that a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O26:H11 infections has been linked to Graziers grass-fed raw milk cheese made by Sierra Nevada Cheese Company of Willows, California. Thirteen people are sick: three each in California and Nevada, and one each in Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky
As of September 24, 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counts 1,253 people in 46 states and Puerto Rico infected with seven strains of Salmonella after contact with backyard chicks, chickens, ducklings and ducks; 256 of them were hospitalized and two died, one in Georgia and one in Washington. CDC closed the investigation
FDA posted a warning letter on September 22, 2026 telling Viva Raw LLC of Charlotte, North Carolina that raw pet food it sold in the summer of 2025 was adulterated: Salmonella Enteritidis in Viva Raw Pure Chicken Pet Food Mixer and Viva Raw Chunked Chicken Dog Food, and Listeria monocytogenes in Viva Raw Ground Turkey
The frozen blueberry E. coli O145:H28 outbreak is over. On September 21, 2026, CDC closed it at 17 sick in Florida and Georgia, 6 hospitalized and no deaths, all tied to frozen organic blueberries packed by Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur S.A. of San Carlos, Chile, and sold as Publix GreenWise blueberries and mixed berries
As of September 17, CDC counts 37 people with hepatitis A in four states linked to imported frozen blood clams, 30 of them hospitalized, none dead, with illness onsets running from July 30, 2025 to June 23, 2026. FDA’s safety alert for the same clams — the page a restaurant, an inspector or a home
On Tuesday, September 22, 2026, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced a Class I recall of approximately 167,639 pounds of raw pork, beef and goat products from Star Meat Delivery Inc. of North Carolina, produced without federal inspection and stamped with a counterfeit USDA mark of inspection reading EST. 1363. The meat went to
FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation (CORE) Network has posted Executive Incident Summary abstracts for five 2026 outbreak investigations: Salmonella in Mogo moringa capsules (ref #1377) and Rosabella moringa capsules (#1365), E. coli O157:H7 in Raw Farm raw cheddar and raw milk (#1369), Salmonella Newport in Guatemalan cantaloupe (#1366), and Listeria monocytogenes in Clover Hill