FDA’s own guidance to the sprout seed industry says the agency has observed 52 reported outbreaks of foodborne illness associated with contaminated sprouts in the United States between 1996 and 2020, together causing more than 2,700 illnesses. That is the floor, and it counts only one country. Pulling thirty years of the published record together
This chart stood at 31,521 on Wednesday. Tonight it stands at 31,972. West Virginia and Florida posted new numbers, Michigan reported on Thursday, and one row of my own chart turned out to be short by 31 people. The federal outbreak linked to recalled iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico stands at 10,930 illnesses
Zaragoza and Sanchez v. Taylor Fresh Foods, Inc. and Taylor Farms California, Inc., No. 1:26-cv-10148, filed today in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, a state that now counts 1,437 illnesses of its own.
CHICAGO — August 21, 2026 — Alonso Zaragoza and Jadhira Sanchez, husband and wife, of Chicago
Twelve people infected with E. coli O145:H28 — eleven in Florida, one in Georgia, four hospitalized, no deaths — from frozen GreenWise organic blueberries and mixed berries sold at Publix and packed by Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur S.A. of San Carlos, Chile. Illnesses began between May 11 and June 5. As of today, August
Forty-one people are sick in Minnesota and Wisconsin, two have been hospitalized, and health officials say the count will rise.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 20, 2026 — Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, is investigating a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) and Salmonella infections that the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and
On Saturday this chart stood at 30,523. Today it stands at 31,521. Eight states have posted new numbers since then, CDC published a full week of federal data on Tuesday, and one row of my own chart turned out to be short by more than a hundred cases.
CDC’s surveillance page updated Tuesday with data
Dairyland Produce, LLC, doing business as Hardie’s Fresh Foods of Houston and Dallas, is recalling PEPPER JALAPENO 5# because the peppers have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. The company dated its announcement August 12. FDA published it August 17.
The peppers went to two Costco warehouses in Texas: Store #1487 at 12717
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — An Illinois woman who was hospitalized for three days after eating at a Chipotle Mexican Grill in Springfield has filed the first lawsuit arising out of the nationwide Salmonella Javiana outbreak linked to fresh jalapeño peppers, and the only company she has sued is the San Diego importer that brought the peppers
Patrick Bogard, 68, recognized the outbreak in the news and asked his own doctor for the test that found the parasite. He lost eleven pounds in a week and was taken to the emergency room after his leg gave out beneath him.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 15, 2026 — Patrick L. Bogard is sixty-eight years old
NatureBest Precut & Produce LLC, a processor with plants in Missouri City and Houston, Texas, has recalled eighteen refrigerated products made with jalapeño peppers it bought from Coast Citrus Distributors — the San Diego importer at the center of a Salmonella Javiana outbreak that has now sickened 345 people in twenty-seven states. The products went
The Hampton Grocers, Inc. of Montauk, New York is recalling its 8-ounce packages of Lacnola Lactation Granola because the product may be contaminated with Salmonella. FDA published the company announcement on August 14, 2026.
The granola comes in a pink 8-ounce stand-up pouch, UPC 850035324554. Two lots are covered: HGLC-102125, with an expiration date