The FDA updated its CORE Investigations of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks table on October 28, 2026. Here is what’s new:
New outbreak: A new outbreak of Salmonella Javiana (ref #1424) has been added to the table. Fifty-nine people are sick. The product linked to illnesses has not yet been identified, and FDA has not yet initiated
The West Virginia Department of Health sent a health advisory to doctors, hospitals and labs today warning of an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium, according to WDTV. Forty-one people have been sickened since early September, and five have been hospitalized.
Those sickened range in age from 3 to 54. Health officials say exposures are still
Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) is now investigating nine confirmed cases of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), up from seven on Tuesday. The one common thread: every patient visited the State Fair of Texas before falling ill. Investigators are focused on the fair’s petting zoo.
The patients range in age, several are
I have been retained by the family of a woman who was hospitalized with a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infection after visiting Brookshire Farms, the pumpkin patch and corn maze at 4747 Los Osos Valley Road in San Luis Obispo. The family has asked me to find out what made her sick. She is
As of October 26, 2026, the Virginia Department of Health has sequenced Salmonella Telelkebir, the outbreak serotype, in oysters from each of the four Little Wicomico Oyster Company leases it sampled on October 13: five of sixteen isolates, drawn from eight composite samples that had every one already tested positive for Salmonella. CDC still
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is cautioning pet owners not to feed two lots of Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Chicken Recipe for Cats after FDA samples tested positive for Salmonella.
The FDA collected and tested the samples after a consumer complaint about two cats that developed gastrointestinal illness after eating the
The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) reports that all eight oyster meat samples collected from Little Wicomico Oyster Company (LWOC) cages on the Little Wicomico River on October 13 tested positive for Salmonella. Whole genome sequencing results, which will show whether the oyster isolates match the outbreak strain, are expected next week.
The oysters
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers, retailers, wholesalers, restaurants and food service customers not to eat, sell or serve any cold smoked sprats sold by D&M Smoked Fish Inc., doing business as Haifa Smoked Fish, Inc., of Jamaica, New York. The FDA posted the advisory on October 23, 2026.
An FDA inspection
As of October 16, 2026, Lidl US of Arlington, Virginia is recalling one lot of Gelatelli Coffee & Vanilla Gelato with Coffee Sauce & Cookie Pieces after routine quality testing found Listeria monocytogenes in a lab sample. No illnesses have been reported. The recall notice was posted by FDA on October 17.
The best-by date
Krasnyi Oktyabr Inc. of Brooklyn, New York, is recalling Starfish Seafood Premium Cold Smoked Norwegian Salmon Sliced in 8-ounce (227g) packages because the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The company announced the recall on October 9, 2026, and the FDA posted it on October 16.
The salmon was distributed in New York
Petting zoos and E. coli. Here we go again.
The Will County Health Department (Joliet, Illinois) is investigating five laboratory-confirmed cases of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) that may be connected to visits to Bengtson’s Pumpkin Farm in Homer Glen. Health officials are working to determine how the infections occurred and whether there is a